WOOL CONTROL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18598, 20 June 1930, Page 7

WOOL CONTROL.

! STABILISATION BOARD AGREED TO. I : far: :ers’ and sheepowners’ AGREEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 19. The principle of the establishment !of a Wool Stabilisation Board was 1 affirmed by the New Zealand Fanners I Union and the Sheepowners’ Federation in conference. This report of a combined meeting of a committee of the Farmers’ Union and a committee of the Sheepowners’ Federation was submitted to the Farmers’ Union conference this afternoon. “At the meeting of the Combined Committees, Mr H. D. Acland presidj ing, Mr Acland explained that Ausi tralian sheepowners were meeting in | conference at Brisbane, and the re- ) suits of their meeting were not yet I available. Until these 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 the Australian conference \ now sitting, we maintain the position agreed on at the previous conference re wool control, until Australia reaches a decision, and that should a scheme be adopted by Australia on a Federal basis with South Africa, that this Committee again meet with a view to our co-operation along lines adaptable to New Zealand conditions.”

Mr F. S. Bowen explained the finding of the Wool Committee of the Farmers’ Union, which had passed a resolution that the sheepowners of New Zealand affirm the principle of the establishment of a Wool Stabilisation Board on lines parallel with the proposals of Australia and South Africa; and that a Committee representative of the Farmers’ Union and of the Sheepowners’ Federation be formed to frame details of procedure suitable to New Zealand requirements. After discussion, it was unanimously decided—“ That the Sheepowners’ re* solution, as given above, be adopted with the deletion of the word “control,” and the substitution of the word “stabilisation.”

It was also unanimously decided—- “ That a joint committee be set up, comprising seven members of the Farmers’ Union, and seven members of the Sheepowners’ Federation.” After the report had been read, the president (Mr W. J. Poison) said the joint committee had come to a unanimous decision in this matter, and the

conference must either accept or reject the report. Mr Bowen, 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 in, and he therefore asked them to adopt the report. It was desired to cable to Brisbane straight away. The report was unanimously adopted without discussion. More Joint Action. The president said he had -also had a brief conference with the Sheepowners on another matter, and they had agreed that remits on the most [ important matters passed by the con--1 ference should be jointly supported by I the Farmers’ Union and the Sheepowners when presented to the Government. The remits passed on land taxation derating. Arbitration Court, > and unemployment would be submitj ted to the Joint Committee, and would be handled by the deputation to the Government. • The conference agreed to this proI posal.