THE WOOL TRADE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16826, 13 December 1928, Page 11

THE WOOL TRADE

WARNING TO GROWERS DETERIORATION OF QUALITY (Eke. Tel. Copyright-United Press Assn.) Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, Dee. 12. Mr. Hunter, president of the Wool Federation, has sent: a letter to the newspapers, replying to Australian comments on his speech at the Dominion Farmers' Conference on August 1.".. lie says that, the wool trade interests in britnin are disappointed that the industrial and economic conditions in Fnglaml since the war have not allowed them to buy for use in England as big a percentage of the total clip sis before. "These conditions are gradually changing to our advantage," states the letter. "It is expected that the purchase by British firms this season will show" an increase on the last. Criticisms of the character of many clips now coming to the market are made because 1. felt producers of these wools failed to realise the importance of maintaining the character of their wools according to the users' viewpoint and because there is a danger that, as a result of the continuance and extension of the present tendency, if wool values decline seriously, there will be a serious accumulation of this badly bred type of wool, which might ultimately embarrass both growers and users. Therefore, the wool importers of Britain feel that attention ought to be drawn to this deteriora-' tion in character of certain wools and. by directing attention to it, encourage growers to coi'rect it, maintaining the reputation of the wool-growing industry."