NEW I.W.S. BOARD

Press, Volume C, Issue 29511, 12 May 1961, Page 14

NEW I.W.S. BOARD

First Meeting Next Week

The chairman of the New Zealand Wool Board (Mr J. Acland, of Mount Peel) and a board member, Mr R. A. Edgecombe, of Waipukurau, left Christchurch by air last evening to attend the first meeting of the reconstituted board of the International Wool Secretariat, which will begin in Melbourne on Tuesday. Another board member, Mr B. S. Trolove, of Kekerengu, is already in Australia.

The board includes seven Australian representatives and three each from New Zealand and South Africa. This was the first meeting of the secretariat to be held outside London since the meeting held in January, 1937, when representatives from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa took the far-sighted step to set up the organisation, said Mr J. D. Fraser, general manager of the New Zealand Wool Board, last evening before he also flew to Melbourne with the two board members.

The meeting will continue from Tuesday to Friday next week in Melbourne, and will be resumed on the following Monday in Sydney. Matters for discussion include increased wool promotion, scientific and economic development, and the constitution of the new organisation. The board will be addressed by a New Zealander, Dr. F. W. G. White, who is chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. His subject will be scientific liaison with industry. Delegates will visit wool research laboratories of the C.5.1.R.0. at Geelong and Parkville, Melbourne, and Prospect, Sydney New Post This week-end, Mr Acland and the chairmen of the Australian Wool Bureau and the South African Wool Board will Interview Australian applicants for the position of managing-director of the secretariat. They have already interviewed applicants for the post in London.

Other visitors to Australia for the meetings include Mr R. G. Lund, present chairman of the secretariat, who is a New Zealander, Dr. E. G. Carter, scientific adviser to the secretariat in London, and Dr. Gerald Laxer, scientific director to the Wool Bureau (Incorporated) in New York. Mr Lund will visit New Zealand after the meetings. For the first time the executive heads of the three woolgrowers’ organisation* in the three countries will also be together. They are Mr L. F. Hartley, manager of the South African Wool Board. Mr A. W Payne, general manager of the Australian Wool Bureau, and Mr Eraser.