TO IMPROVE WOOL CLASSING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1106, 20 April 1911, Page 8

TO IMPROVE WOOL CLASSING.

\ STATE SUPERVISOR SUGGESTED. j A representative of The Dominion has S ■ been informed that it was suggested to ; th'e Minister for Agriculture (Hon. f Thomas Mackenzie) a while ago that the !, Government, should appoint a wood-class-i ing supervisor.. It was contended that j tho Tvpol industry was a great source of I revenue, and that the producers of it ! Tvere as much entitled to instruction in : : their business as the people engaged in I' dairying were entitled to instruction in. , ! theirs..:.'... \ "It was argued that a supervisor could j ensure a uniform system of teaching !, : clasSifig, arid' that at present there was no ! , ■uniformity, but that various instructors i taught their pupils differently. j. ' ,'An argument was advanced .that if a j .supervisor was appointed he shou'ld be j ■■• sent to America , and England occasionally i to -ksep-up' to date: Classors.it vassaid, (. ' who'learnt their business thirl,,- years ago :•- arid- had since, ha dilo. opportunity of j coining into contact with 'men who were ; , up-to-date, wtjve naturally behind the ; times i nsome- things. If the supervisor kebt himself posted in all the latent deI N veiopments, and handed his knowledge on [ to' the, classers, the wool would he put : up as the buyers' required it, <and the i pupils in''the classes would learn what : concerned to-day,' and not what had to ■ do-with yesterday. I . The Minister's view of the suggestion. I .is not available, just at present. i ■ •'""