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JAPAN AS COMPETITOR SUGGESTION DISCOUNTED LONDON, April J The statement made a day or two ago at the meeting of the National T'nion of Conservatives by Mr. J. R. Reiner, Conservative 31.P. for Macclesfield. that Japan would be able to flood the Australian and Empire wool markets shortly with fleeces grown iu Manchukuo, is not accepted as probable by people who know anything about thr> wool trade. A correspondent writing in the Daily Telegraph points out that in Japan and also in China, the grass is allied to the bamboo family, being coarse and hard. On such feed fine wools would not be produced. * Further, Manchuria, especially in the north, has a climate of cold and snow in winter. This factor alone would prevent the fineness in the clip which gives Australia her great position in the wool trade. No doubt the Japanese, with their wonderful acuteness, will endeavour to build up a sheep industry and make progress with only coarse wool, the writer concedes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21765, 3 April 1934, Page 9
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