POST-WAR TRADE

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16262, 12 July 1918, Page 7

POST-WAR TRADE

NECESSITY FOR PREPARATION. (By Cable.—iPreas Association.—Copyright.) (Reuter's Telegrams.) (Received July 11th, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, July IC. Mr Hughes, addressing a representative meeting of the British Producers' Organisation, again urged the absolute necessity of the British Empire seriously organising industrially and economically for trade after the war. He declared that what was wanted was an immediate declaration of the British Government's economic policy, and ;he appointment of someone invested with the necessary authority to begin without delay to organise tor. peace. FUTURE OF THE WOOL TRADE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 10. No section of the British traders is more alive to the need for preparing for po3t-war trade resumption than th<; wool traders. Several committees arc constantly sitting considering a schemo for submission to the Government with a view to enabling the wool trade to revert to normal at the earliest possible moment ofter peace is declared. The committees hope to formulate a scheme which will operate the instant the Government's-' army requirements cease. It is admitted that the Government must, as has been already announced, rontrol the supply of raw material, giving the Allies the first call upon wool for some period, but the trade believes that wool auctions can bo resumed as soon as the war is ended and similarly the control of wool and manufactures.