WOOL EXPORTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13979, 8 January 1916, Page 4

WOOL EXPORTS.

SHIPMENTS-TO NEUTRAL COUNTRIES TO CEASE.

£UNHE» PfiE!* &.SBOCIATIOW.I

Wellington, Jan. 7. Questioned this iuornins whether wool would vontinue to bo exported to America,--the.Premier said that in racrard to the Export of wool or any other produce lYouired in oomiection with tho war wo iniwt be under the instructions of the Imperial Government. 1 airly larce &hipa>«rii« had now been made to America, btrt the indications were that such shipments would cease in tlio ver.y. near future

Later.

Mr Masse? stated to-day: ''The control of the «xport of <^ h™.y™J*~ other mat«^*«q^^ed larßely^or^war nurnoses leets j with the • Jjnpenal New Zealand.Government that its exnort'to neutial countries must ho prohibited We'haveendeavoured to arrange " mattersywith asi little- inconbut our instruct »ons arc definite. >eeo less to say, I regret tho necessity thai W arisen for tins, but tho strong donamfaml r o:>d prices ruling m Britain shouW ensure Mwfiwtory prices being Stained ncr*--. I will endeavour to di>tein Wnrission f« wool ajreodv pnr<ha i at wool «*» to bo *}* I So not anticipate much difficulty about this ter^ uckfand> Jan . 7 . In rosard- to wool exports, tho Hon. Tmoeriul• authorities having now.dermtheir desire that the exSSt if woo! 'to wjutral countries^ should. naf fccTm3e to; eo-lsto operating interests as *ar as possible. A" jpXarts far permits, in -record;-to wool J, Led at, ifiie various Wai. sales; alS ,eld itJ Auckland, Isapior, WelWrfon Csiri«tehurch. Timaru, and. Wdht iu've "been prJlnted the ncoe*- ■" p rnuts to export to neutral ccmnSi, but 'ye have now arrived at -I poStU thai we injst carry^out ttw ririm»rial -Government's' desires. uw- "/ ot ever, to the very large-require- "'«";'{■. t "\>'tar" ourposes whiclvexist SX Uiitt" &§«£ W hioh J*ivo ncj; Sssarily created, a strong demand foi Sr "Si, the market should continue l?S>ni and ensure satisfactory pnoos lIS bri"- oMained." Mr Al.vor* pointed out that thrre is no prohibition upon the export of wod to the United Kui^ don *t. is, hon-cTOr, subject to the license system instituted somo monUis aco under vrhkh licenses are jrrantorC for 'the shipmont <rf v.-00l to approved consignees in • tho Old Country, ' but m regaj-d "to- tlW> future all export oiwool to no«ti*al ooxmtrios is, in accordance v.-itb the Imperial Government's request, absolutely prohibited. (