International Experts Discuss Future Of Wool

Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1949, Page 2

International Experts Discuss Future Of Wool

Keceived Friday, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, June 3. M. Miehel Lallour (Franee)," president of the European Sheepgrowers' Committee, speaking at the International Wool Conference at Florence, suggested regional European markets to sell graded wool by auction on the lines followed by the great producer ' emmtries.

He emphasised that Europe still had the greatest sheep population in the | world, but the quality and quantity of j the wool produeed was not sufficient to meet her needs. M. Lallour said Europe 's docks exceeded 200,000,000. and they produeed more than 300,000,- 1 000 kilogrammes of greasy wool out of the 2,000,000,000 kilogrammes of world production, and 60,000,000 sheep and lamb skins. □ J He continued: "Europe needs all this ! raw material. We ask for Europe 's help in impfoving quality and quantity by banding itself together in an eifective liaison with other industries whicli consume the produce of sheep. ' ' The manager of United Ivingdom and Dominion Wool Disposals Limited, Mr. F. S. Arthur (New Zealand), warned the conference that the outloolc .for future wool demand was possibiy more perplexing than at any time since the war. Mr. Arthur said that eonsumer resistance was growing to the high level of prices for wool goods. The Direetor of- the Italian Wool Textile Association (Dr. Doiuenco Zaini) declared that with European union reaching the staage of practical politics a great need for a single Customs tariff would arise. , The serious eft'orts being made by producers of other textile libres to enter into spheres wliieh are the exclusive preserves of wool were referred to by Mr. Ewen Waterman, Australian representative on the International Wool Secretariat. Mr. Waterman said that in several spheres already, such as women 's wear, wool had been supplanted and now, espeeially in the United States, strong edorts- were being made to establish a market for tropical suitings in materials other than wool. He added that it was because of these encroachments that the International Wool Secretariat was extending its researeh in Britain, France, Switzerland, the United States and India.