WOOLLEN INDUSTRY

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6059, 4 November 1920, Page 2

WOOLLEN INDUSTRY

MILLS FOR QUEENSLAND. Mr G. E. Bmining, 5. wiell-kjiown Queensland pastoralkt.. has in hand a .scheme formulated by tlic Fedorai Bureau oj : Commerce and Industry, for the .establishment of a*woollen manufacturing industry in Queensland. He. is.at present forming a committee to "stabilise the movement. The committee, will embrace representatives of pastoral arid kindred industries, Queensland {Tjiivrsity, and returned soldiers. Mr Bnnning s aid that niil!. s woutyl first bio established i,n tl» most suitable positions, on an experimental" basis, for the purpose of training the necessary labor. Inquiries in England showed that there would ba no difficulty in obtaining skillled workmen, n',:id Mr Bunting did not anticipate that there would he much difficulty in securing trailed labour in Australia. He added that the Federal G'orernniont Was bphiud the bureau's effort, but the committee "woui'd have perfect freedom of action to carry out any suitable scheme upon which it might decide