SHIPPING N.Z. WOOL TO U.S.A.

Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1946, Page 5

SHIPPING N.Z. WOOL TO U.S.A.

-Press Association

By TeledrUph-

WELLINGTON, April to. Eeasons wliy it ltad not been possible for the New Zealand Marketing Afithoritv to give ifi advaitce a firfii ufidertakiiig regaidifig the time of shipluera of wDOl orders placed in the Bominion by American ptirehasers, were gi.ou ii... the Minister of Marketing, Bofi. B. Eoberts. He was replying to criticistn by Lord Barnby that the United iSuue.-. would have taken a still larger total of New Zealand wool if New Zealarld marketing arrangements had been more expeditious and had more closelv ap proached the efficiency in Australia. i .The Minister said extraordiiiary diffi I culties during the war in regard to suip ping to the United Btates, were well known to New Zealand traders. The situation in Australia was known to have been easier, but every oppor tunity of shipinent from NeW Zealaii'i was taken. There was tio regular ship pifig service between New Zealand aua U.S.A., the Only opportunities for sliipnient being ifi U.B.A. war traiispon vessels on their return joumeys, in sonte cases wool was held awaiting the opportunity to ship, for periods of three to four months. The shipping eommit tee had worked to make the best use Oi these opportunities but the exigencio. of war, the necessity for siuldeii changes without notice in ship movements, and the difficuity oi impossi bility o'f the New Zealand Marketing Authority giving in adVance a Jl.m undei'taking regal'difig the tilfie of ship ment, were apparent. Bhipments of Nei. Zealand tvool to U.B.A, dui'iiig 1939 ariii the war years were: — 1939, approxi mately 40,000 bales; 1939-40, nilj 1940 41, 75S2; 1941-42, 40,042; 3942-45 42,100; 1943-44, 57,27.8; 1944-45, 130,1 07 ' atoj ii i i"' -n't i itr-in aafctf