THE WOOL POSITION
CONFERENCE IN WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, January 14. A joint meeting of the Board of Agriculture and the Primary Producers’ Committee was held to-day. Sir James Wilson (president) presiding. The conference discussed the present wool position, including prices, freights, and other important aspects. Mr W. D. Hunt, who was appointed by a large meeting of producers last year to act as special New Zealand representative on the Advisory Committee in London, attended the meeting, and gave a very full and lucid account of the whole facts of the position as ascertained by him. As a result resolutions were passed which are to be submitted to the Prime Minister. The meeting also discussed the various aspects of the frozen meat position, and went generally into matters which just now are of special interest to the primary producers. It is understood that a detailed report will be available shortly. The freights now charged on wool are Igd on greasy, and on scoured, including dumping charges. In the case of private shipments the shipicing companies also pay up to four weeks’ storage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 12
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180THE WOOL POSITION Otago Witness, Issue 3488, 18 January 1921, Page 12
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