SOUTH AFRICAN WOOL
POSITION BECOMING ACUTE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received ()ctol>er 17, 11 p.m. CAPETOWN, October 16. An important conference of woolla rmers met at Pretoria to consider the wool question. Owing to the epidemic only a fourth of the intended delegates were present. Hon. A. G. Robertson, Administrator for the Transvaal, himself a big wool-farmer, said that the position was worse than last year. Tonnage was scarcer, and with 500,000 bales of new clip coming in, the market would lie much worse, unless the present stocks were moved. America was not buying, and Japan was taking very little. He Imped tliat Congress would form a permanent organisation to deal with the question.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13892, 18 October 1918, Page 5
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