SURPLUS RAW WOOL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 201, 26 August 1943, Page 4

SURPLUS RAW WOOL

MARKETING OF POST-WAR ACCUMULATIONS (P.A.) Wellington. Aug. 25. The probability of war period accumulation of surplus raw wool, is adding to the uneasiness of woolgrowers regarding post-war markets and prices, and has resulted in an agitation for a post-war marketing plan to stabilise wool prices, said Mr. H. Mr. ( bristle, chairman, at the annual meeting of the Wool Council to-uay. He said the economy of all countr.es had changed during the war, and any post-war marketing plan based on pre-war conditions was doomed to fail. After discussing a proposal submitted by South African woolgrowers, ho pointed out that a fixed post-war marketing plan would have a larreaching effect on the whole economy of the country. Great care must be taken to ensure that such plan did not create detrimental repercussions on the marketing o£ meat and other primary products. Mr. Christie mentioned that the position in regard to surplus New Zealand wool stocks had improved, and there was unlikely to be any serious accumulation at the beginning of the coming wool seeiscn. Pipe Band Parades. The Wanganui Highland Pipe Band, maintaining its record of parades for the year, will turn out on three occasions during the week-end. On Saturday afternoon they will play at the Wanganui East Town Hall. They will parade at the Virginia Lake reserv. on Sunday afternoon at 2.30 p.m., and on Monday night they will entertain at a social evening several members who have returned to New Zealand on furlough.