PUBLICITY FOR WOOL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 8

PUBLICITY FOR WOOL

AN EMPIRE PROPOSAL

NEW ZEALAND'S PART The Canterbury Sheep Owners' Union has taken'a lead'in New Zealand in endeavouring to reach' agreement with other Empire producers on a publicity campaign lor .wool. The proposal was discussed at a meeting of the executive of the union'last week. The Australian Wool Growers' Council wrote, advising that a joint meeting of the council and the Graziers' Federal Council had considered a special report on wool publicity and research. The. meeting had decided in favour of creating a fund for improving the production and increasing the consumption of wool and that the fund should be raised by a compulsory levy with legis : lative authority. The levy to be imposed should not exceed Is a bale of wool in any one year, and the Commonwealth Government should be asked to arrange for the collection of the levy under its powers of excise. The Ohristehurch meeting- decided that a special committee should discuss with Lord Barnby. who was responsible for reviving interest in the plan, the results of his visit to Australia. The opinion was expressed that publicity in the. interests of wtiol consumption was urgently required to counteract "the unfair and harmful propaganda being! published by manufacturers" of some fabrics having a vegetable origin."