PREMIER ABROAD.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 10 August 1921, Page 8

PREMIER ABROAD.

VISIT TO BRADFORD. WOOL INTERESTS. Per Press Association—Coryrig'it). LONDON, August 8. Mr Massey spent the week-end at Bradford as the guest of LieutenantColonel Francis Willey, the wool magnate, whose son was wool controller in war time. To-day he visited the exchange and several of the largest mills, including Saltaire, where he saw New Zealand wool being worked from, the raw material to the finished cloth. He was amused to discover that while motoring to give a reception in Lieutenant Willey’s motor car, that a. rug therein was manufactured at Mosgiel. At the subsequent reception by the Chamber of Commerce, Mr Whitehead, chairman, said the visit would do much to further the friendship and understanding between Bradford and New Zealand. , Mr Dawson, president of the Wool Federation, said that closer co-opera-tion between Australasia and Bradford was essential, their interests being identical. The Federation was firmly convinced' that it would regain former prosperity if freed from the trammels of control and subjected only to the laws of supply and demand. He believed they had enough skill and enterprise, which, with free scope would enable them to regain their position.

Mr Massey said he was confident of the trade’s ability to overcome the present slump. He would be d.sappointed if wool prices did not increase considerably in the next half year. Every Dominion pastoralist in 1920 showed a loss, and. the accumulations of wool in England must be seriously faced and dealt with. He agreed that the sooner the trade was relieved from Government control in any shape the better it would be for the industry’s progress.