Wool Technicians’ New Organisation

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 100, 27 September 1948, Page 3

Wool Technicians’ New Organisation

i One of the most significant movements in the New Zealand wool trade -of recent years / has been the organisation of many of the younger technical men into an association having as its object the provision of extra facilities for men to improve their skill in presenting the wools of New Zealand to the markets of the world. 1 With this end in view the association has already held a successful annual conference, and will shortly issue a journal containing useful information and authoritative articles by leading sheepbreeders, economists, and wool experts.- This journal, it is hoped, will prove of value far beyond the association’s membership, and also overseas from New Zealand. The idea of an organisation of technical men originated two years ago, from the fellowship engendered among men taking the professional wool course at Massey Agricultural College. Ex-servicemen, of whom that year’s class of 45 was largely 1 composed, took a leading part in laying the foundations of the association and arranging for its first conference in May of this year. The addresses delivered at that con-, .ference, which had as its guests several of the leading woolbrokers, will form the basis of the association’s journal. ,