NEED TO GROW MORE WOOL

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27396, 8 July 1954, Page 12

NEED TO GROW MORE WOOL

DEMAND EXCEED!) ' SUPPLY i GROWTH OF WORLD POPULATION (New Zealand Press Associa&a) TIMARU, M In his estimation, wool to realised £1,142,000.000 in natuatl come over the years. This wasa| nine times the value of goWi| mined in this country, and fel great as the National Debt, saiil J. E. Duncan, supervisor of culture department at the as conference of the Massey Wool Association at Timaru tofe| Mr Duncan spoke on the neei growing more wool from whatrfi be called the selfish motive of taw more revenue. Producers had I more compelling reason of vation in the long run. . He said there had been nsudi| since the war about miracle $i and dire predictions that synl fibres in general would usurp mej wool’s markets. So far these propJ had appeared to be false and. if I thing, the pendulum had swungl other way. With many wool grcj inclined to regard synthetics ■ much over rated bogy, some syntfl| had proved an ally rather.than enemy of wool, such as the 251 cent, of nylon which gave men's® such greatly enhanced wearing?! erties without sacrificing the cor® of the 75 per cent, of wool. J Above all, he said, was the and innescapable fact that the w population was increasing at ki rate that there had never been a*! textile fibres to give every on this earth about a potmd olt® wool fibre if there were equal! tribution. There were millions who couids afford or could not obtain wooiMl and other millions who did no‘r| or desire it, said Mr Duncan, .ft! spite of this the demand lor was exceeding the supply. Wha! was considered that countries sasj Britain, the United States andW Zealand used 5.91 b, 4.41 b and clean wool a head of population® year, the scope for increased ’J consumption in other parts oil world, as the general ing rose, could readily be appreca