WOOL CLIPS NOT SOLD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23021, 26 April 1938, Page 14

WOOL CLIPS NOT SOLD

UNITED STATES FARMERS EFFECT OF RESTRICTIONS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Monday "Roosevelt is your Santa Claus; he has helped all the world except the "United States," said Judge L. E. Armstrong, a Wyoming sheep owner who is visiting New Zealand as a passenger on the Franconia. "The sheep farming business in America is in a bad way at present." Judge Armstrong explained that, although not a rancher, he had considerable interests in the sheep industry. "You folk are ruining our market," said Judge Armstrong. "We are in a very bad condition. Many of our sheepmen have not yet sold their 19.17 clip. Some even have their 1936 clip still on their < hands, and right now they aro starting in to shear the 19M8 season's clip. They have to ship it 2000 miles east, to be sold, which probably costs as much as for you to ship to England. "Roosevelt has helped all the world except the United States," added Judge Armstrong. "He has made South Africa rich by buying gold, he has made the Argentine rich with their beef, Canada with its whisky and Australia and New Zealand with wool and mutton on account of his restrictions."