WOOL STABILISATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19347, 30 June 1925, Page 8

WOOL STABILISATION

THE MELBOURNE CONFERENCE N.Z. DELEGATES INTERVIEWED Received June 29, ]1.45 p.m. SYDNEY', June 29. Mr Bernard Tripp and Mr W. H. Nicholson, the New Zealand pastoralists delegates, have returned from the Melbourne wool conference. They sail for New Zealand by The Maunganui on Friday. Meantime they will discuss the position with N.S.W. pastoralists, and, upon their return, will discuss matters with the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Federation and the Wool Committee.

Interviewed concerning Sir John Higgins’ scheme, the delegates were disinclined to comment as representatives of the New Zealand wool growers until they placed the position before the institutions they represented. Express- , ing their purely individual views, they said the experience of meat control in New Zealand showed there was nothing to fear from the issue of export licenses, which had worked well in the Dominion. The question involved no insuperable difficulties. Wool growers in Australia would be well advised to consider the advisability of forming some such organisation as had been proposed on sound business lines. Failing some scheme being evolved as a result of the conference, the matter would be automatically removed from the condition of sound business to that of political action, which was not wanted. They stressed the fact that such a scheme would be specially beneficial to small sheep owners, and emphasised the fact that control of the export of meat in New Zealand had kept prices stable over the whole year on a level line w’hich was close to the highest prices offered. The effect of export control was the stabilisation of prices and of land values, sheep values and the finances of the Government.