STABILISATION OF WOOL

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1930, Page 11

STABILISATION OF WOOL

JOINT ACTION PROPOSES) THREE SOUTHERN DOMINIONS. B.iG CONFERENCES IN PROGRESS, • By Telegraph.—Press Association. ..Wellington, Last Night. The principle of the establishment, of a Wool Stabilisation Board has been " affirmed by the New Zealand Farmers Union and th© Sheepowners’ Federation in conference. The following report of a combined meeting of a committee of the Farmers’ Union and a committee of the Sheepowners’ Federation was: sub- , mitted to the Farmers’ Union conference to-day.. ' . , “At the meeting of the combined, .committee, Mr, H. D. Acland preaffinig, Mr. Acland explained that Australian sheepowners were meeting in conference * at Brisbane, and the- results of their meeting were not yet available. ; Until this information came to hand nothing very definite could be- done. He stated that at a meeting of the Sheepowners’ Federation just held the following resolution had: been passed:—That as th© Australian conference is now sitting we maintain the' position agreed on at th© previous conference regarding wool control until Australia reaches a decision, and that should a scheme be adopted .. by Australia on a Federal basis ; with South Africa, this committee again meet with a view to our co-operation ainong lines adaptable to New Zealand requirements. .. . / ;» - , “After discussion it was unanimously decided that the sheepowners’ resolution be adopted, with the deletion of the word ‘control,’ and the substitution of the word, ‘stabilisation.’ It . was j also unanimously decided that a joint’committee be set up, comprising - (seven members of the New Zealand Farmers Union and seven members of the Sheepowners’ Federation.” -I’ After the report had been read th© president, Mr. W. J. Polson, said the joint committee of the, Farmers’ Union and the sheepowners’ representatives had come to a unanimous decision in th© matter, and . the conference: must either accept or reject the report. Mr. Ro wen, one -of the representatives on the committee, said the Federal Council in New -South Wales' was meeting at the present time in. Brisbane, and the Australian Wool Growing Council was meeting next week. -They had invited New Zealand to go in / with them. They had already met the South African people at Capetown with their Minister "of Agriculture, and they, had agreed that South Africa should join Australia in whatever plans, were made with regard to the stabilisation of wool. Whatever they agreed it was necessary to do, New Zealand should join inland h© therefore asked them to adopt th© report. ./•■•■•• „. , • It was decided to cable to Brisbane straight away and the report was unanimously adopted without discussion. The president said >he had also had a brief conference with the shee\)owners on another matter and they had agreed that the remits on the most important matters passed by the conference should be jointly supported by the Farmers Union and the sheepowners when presented to the Government. The remits passed on land:-taxation, derating, the , Arbitration Coiirt and.//unemployment would be submitted to. the Government committee and would be'handed by the deputation to; th© Government. • Th© conference/ agreed'. to this pro-, .posal. ■' 'r--7-'