COTTON GROWING
. PROSPECTS IN QUEENSLAND. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 12. (Received May 14, at 0.5 a.m.) Mr Hunter, Agent-General for Queensland, will prerseed to Manchester on Friday to negotiate the establishment of the cotton growing industry. in Queensland. This has been the subject of correspondence for some month's, Lancashire being particularly anxious to extend its sources of supply of raw cotton in view of the increasing demands on the American and Egyptian crops. The Chambers of Commerce have now invited Mr Hunter to discuss definite details. It is , pointed out that a big enterprise in cotton-growing -in connection with soldiers' settlements and otherwise is only justified if the present high prices of cotton continue , , or the Lancashire brokers, spinners, and others guaranteed to purchase the output at a fixed price over a period of years. Experiments conducted by the Imperial Institule and the Manchester Chamber of Commerce showed that Queensland cotton was a good marketable quality.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17935, 14 May 1920, Page 5
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