“USE MORE WOOL” CAMPAIGN

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1930, Page 11

“USE MORE WOOL” CAMPAIGN

AN AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION.

GRAZIERS MORE HOPEFUL.

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.

Sydney, April 17.

The announcement from London that wool is recovering, and that there is a better demand for Australian clips, ■ is the best bit of news New South Wales graziers have had for a long time. They are looking hopefully, not only to improved demand for the balance of this year’s wool, but also to better prices for next year’s clip. A slight rise, attended with a good demand, is forecast. • •

It remains, of course, to. be- seen whether Sydney’s “Use More Wool” Exhibition will achieve its objective, namely, to awaken public consciousness to the economic importance and practical and national benefits of wool. That Australia is carried on the sheep’s back largely is a hardboiled fact, and not merely a figure of speech, and is apt to be realised only in times like the present. The fact that about 51 per cent, of Australia’s income is based on the alue of its wool clip, that the average price of wool is about 50 per cent, lower to-day than it has been for the past ten years, and that this is due, not to over-production, as in former slumps, but to lack of demand, tells its own story of the need for making the community wool conscious. This has been the aim of Sydney’s exhibition, and of the display of some of the fashionable and intriguing woollen fabrics that are being produced to-day. Practically every organised body in the commercial and social worlds of Sydney has thrown its weight behind the big and attractive show.