WOOL CONFERENCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 13 June 1939, Page 6

WOOL CONFERENCE

TEN COUNTRIES REPRESENTED tC.P.A.-tiy Electric Telegraph —Copyright] 'Received 13th June, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, 12th June. The Brussels correspondent of “The Times” says that the technical committee of the fifteenth International Wool Conference will discuss procedure before the conference opening on 15th June at which problems connected with, the depression in the wool trade are specially receiving attention. Delegates represented ten countries. Representatives of New Zealand. Australia and South Africa were present as guests.

A party of actors stayed for the night in a primitive village. Next day one of them observed wearily to a colleague as he rose about noon: “Where does one wash?” “In the spring,” replied' the other. “Laddie,” said the first, “I said ‘where’ not ‘when.’ ” Hiram Hornswoggle had been very! impressed by his visit to the city, j "Some of them bank fellows are pretty j slick counting notes,” he said to a| friend one day. “I saw a feller in one o' them banks, and blow me if he didn t have to keep a wet sponge alongside to keep his fingers from getting red hot. He told me so himself.”