WOOL INDUSTRY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23968, 19 May 1941, Page 3

WOOL INDUSTRY

STEPS IN UNITED KINGDOM SOME FACTORIES CLOSED (Reed. 0.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 17 The United Kingdom wool industry is now subject to direct measures for the concentration and reduction of production, in spite of the fact that rationing of raw material supplies has been a severe implement of control since the outbreak of war. Numbers of factories are being closed under a "voluntary" plan. A levy will be imposed on the surviving factories to compensate the closed firms for liabilities which they cannot meet from other sources. Soles to the home trade are now limited to '3O per cent of the pre-war figure. .The rayon industry also has been subjected to restrictions. NEWSPRINT DEBUT AUSTRALIAN PRODUCT "AMBITIOUS DREAM REALISED" SYDNEY, May 17 For the first time, Australian newsprint was used in the entire production of a newspaper when the Sydney Morning Herald published its issue last Monday. The newsprint was produced by Australian Newsprint Mills Proprietary, Limited, at Boyer, Tasmania. On the same day, .Tasimmian newspapers published special displays oil similar paper. Entry into the commercial production stage this week is being marked by special features. The Hobart Mercury refers to the work as the, realisation of what may be regarded as an ambitious dream, and expresses the hope that in_ the near future, with the installation of the second and third units, Boyer will be producing two-thirds of Australia's newsprint requirements. The mills at Boyer went into production on March 17, and some time later newsprint produced by them was used experimentally in the production of several pages of a Sydney Morning Herald issue. The new venture is particularly valuable at this time, because it will make possible a reduction in the imports of Canadian newsprint, thus assisting to preserve Australia's dollar credits. The Canadian importations to Australia will be reduced in proportion to the production at the Boyer mills.

FRUIT TRADE DOMINION DISPUTE APPLICATION REFERRED BACK Expressing dissatisfaction with several aspects of an application for a Dominion award covering dairy, fruit, confectionery and cake shop assistants, the Court of Arbitration has referred the dispute back to the parties so that they may confer further upon various matters at issue. Among aspects upon which the Court states it is dissatisfied is the amount of information supplied by the parties at the hearing and with the paucity of helpful evidence. The Court points out that it desires to avoid unnecessary delay and expense, and if as a result of their conference the parties wish again to be heard by the Court, every assistance will be afforded them for a fixture at the earliest possible date. In a survey of proceedings leading to the present Dominion dispute and of a subsequent Auckland dispute, the Court expresses the view that the underlying reason for the creation of the separate Auckland dispute was the dissatisfaction of a number of Auckland employers with the proceedings which led up to the formation of the Conciliation Council for the Dominion dispute and the representation of the employers in the northern district on that 'council. At the hearing of the Dominion dispute an advocate of the employers pleaded strongly that no Dominion dispute had been created.

The Court thought it most unsatisfactory that any doubts should he cast on the validity of the preliminary proceedings, and that, there should be _evidence of grave dissatisfaction with the representation of employers on the Conciliation Council.

COUNTRY STOCK .SALES MORRINSVILLE VALUES (0.c.) MOBRINSVILLE, Saturday A good entry of fat sheep, comprising mostly fat lambs, came forward at the Morrinsville stock sale. Values remained firm. There was a small offering of beef, values being unchanged. A keen demand existed for several pens of Jersey hoifer calves, but bidding was not very brisk for dairy cattle. There was another large yarding of all classes of fal pigs, quotations being fully up to last week's rates. Farmers' Auctioneering.—Heavy prime lambs. 20s to 27s (id; fat lambs, 10s to '2ss (id; store lambs. 1.3s to 1.4s 3d; small. 7s (3d to 10s 3d; kilinble ewes, 8s to IGs. Shorthorn cows, with runners at foot, £l> to £0 12s 6d; light fat Shorthorn heifers, X'G 15s to £7 2s (id; fat Jersey heifers, €1 to £5 IBs; heavy Shorthorn cows, £0 15s to £7 10sj boner cows, £3 Bs to £5 ss; store cows, £2 5s to £3; store three and a-half-year Friesian bullocks, to £8; small two and a-half-ycar P.A. and Hereford steers, £6 la: small two and a-|ialf-vear Shorthorn and Hereford steers. £5 17s; Jersev heifer calves, £2 9s to £4 13s. Dairy heifers, close to profit, £8 16s; medium quality Jersey heifers, £7 to £7 10s; smaller, £0 5s to £0 lss; heifers in milk, £6 10s to £7 10s; dairy cows in milk, £4 10s to £6. Heavy choppers, £ t 8s to £5 2s; others, £2 7s to €3 18s; heavy baconers, £3 IGs to £3 18s; others, £3 to £3 13s; porkers, £2 to £2 18s; unfinished. 32s to 80s; stores, 17s to 30s; slips, 12s to 1.55; weaners, 6s to 10s; Devon breeding sows, £2 His to £3 10s; maiden breeding sows, 37s fid to £2 12s. Dal get .v. -Light frit Jersey heifers, £5 15s to C(i; heavy boners, £ 1 Ids to £5; medium, t-1 to £-1 15s: lighter. £2 12s to £3 16s; others £1 to £'2 2s. ~J YARDING AT TE AWAMUTU Dalget v and Company reports having held its tri-weckl v sale at Te Awamutu. Medium bullocks. t'»; light Polled Angus heifers. ,10 7s (id to to i:ii; light Polled Angus cows, t'(i to tO 15s; heavy Jersey cows, £5 5s to £0; boners, 20s to £ 1 lis; Jersey heifer calves ,tl 10s to Gs; medium wethers, 22s to 2ls Oil; lambs, 18s to 27s Od; fat ewes, Ss to lis Oil; baconers, £3 to £3 lis; porkers 30s to £3; unfinished, 25s to 30s; stores, 106 to 235; slips. Ss to 10s; weaners, (is to 10s 6d; choppers, £2 to £-1 58} breeding sows. £2 15s to £2 17s 6d. QUOTATIONS AT ARIA Newton King, Limited, reports having held its Aria sale. Fat Shorthorn bullocks, to £10; others, £8 10s to £0 10s; fat Polled Angus cows, to £6 7s 6d; other Polled Angus and Shorthorn cows, £5 15s to £6 ss; medium 2y a -year Polled Angus steers, to £0 Ms; smaller cattle, £5 10s to £6 2s; in-calf Polled Angus cows, £1 16s to £5; Polled Angus steer calves, £3 to £3 lis; Polled Angus and Hereford heifer calves, to £2 O.s; ollicrs, 35s to £2 7s; store Jersey cows. £3 to £3 15s; more meaty sorts, to CM sg; best ewe hoggets, to 20s Od; medium wether hoggets. 13s (id to 15s. WAIHI HEIFER AUCTION The Farmers' Auctioneering reports having held its special heifer sale at Wnihi ihreeve nr Jersey heifers, early calvers, £7 o £0 12< Od; later calvers. £7 is (id to £. 1-» Od, iwo-venr Jersey and Jersey-cross hejfcrs._ IS 1.-.S to £0 10s; early calvers. £, ' ,,s . CS 5* - oilier two-year Jersey and Jersey rross heifers. later calvers. t(i jfc» to I, 7s (id; backward Jersey heifers, £■> ■>> to C 5 15s; springing Friesian cows, Jcr>e> cows, July and August calvers. £<> 10s to €0 15s DAIRY CATTLE AT PAPAKURA The demand for dairy cattle at the Papakura sale, of the Loan and Mercantile Com-1 pa n v ss» rsßf s»<l wices vere realised. Best Jersey and «•»* heifers, close to profit, £.12 10s to £l4 loS; | other s es < 0 £lO 15s; best dairy cows, deso to profit, £lO 15s to £l2 LCB; meftptt. 3S | 12s 6d to £10; backward, £6 lo £7 17s Bd.