Farmers Support Woollen Imports
(New geataed Pre** Association) DUNEDIN, July 20. The bogy of unemployment was being raised to prevent larger imports of woollen piece-goods, Mr R. B. McLuskie told the Otago executive of Federated Farmers.
Mr McCluskie. who is the federation’s assistant general secretary, said that mill workers would not suffer if greater imports were allowed; neither would the mills. More imported piece-goods would stimulate the market for woollens. New Zealand mills would benefit although some rationalisation might be necessary. Professor B. P. Philpott had •aid that the cost of imported woollen textiles had risen 40 per cent since 1954, but that the cost of New Zealand goods had risen 90 per cent in the same time. Mr H. F. Cameron moved that the executive express its support for the meat and wool section’s campaign to bring the full facts before the public.
ers to the International Wool Secretariat was just being wasted if woollen goods were not promoted within the country. The motion was carried without dissent.
The £3 million being subscribed by New Zealand farm-
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31117, 21 July 1966, Page 20
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178Farmers Support Woollen Imports Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31117, 21 July 1966, Page 20
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