WOOL CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA
A CONFERENCE OF FARMERS. (Rec. October 17, 11 p.m.) . . Cape Town, October 16. An important conference of wool farmers mot at Pretoria to consider the wool question. Owing to the epidemic only one-fourth of the intended delegates were present. Mr. Robertson, Administrator for the Trensvaal and himself a big wool farmer, said that the position was worse than last year. Tonnage was scarcer with half a million bales in the new clip. The incoming market would be much worse unless present stocks were moved. AiXcrica was not buying, and Japan was taking very little. He hoped \the congress .would found a permanent organisation to deal with the question. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 20, 18 October 1918, Page 6
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116WOOL CRISIS IN SOUTH AFRICA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 20, 18 October 1918, Page 6
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