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WOOL PRICES

PROTEST AGAINST, GOVERNMENT CONTROL YORKSHIRE MANUFACTURERS' OPINION London, December 17. The West Yorkshire Woollen Manufacturers' Association, comprising twontyfour cloth manufacturing (inns, has resolved that tho Government's retention of wool for two years after the armistice by fixing high reserves has been an unjustifiable interference with the natural courso,of trade, nnd is the principal cause of tho present calamitous condition in tho woollen industry, with tho result that thousands of 13rituh woollen'workers are already unemployed, and scores of thousands arc on Half-time 1 or less. Tho association believes that nothing loss than a complete' abandonment of attempts to control wool prices will br.ing a measure of stability to tho distressed industry. -Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. LONDON WOOL SALES GOOD COMPETITION-FOE FREE • WOOLS. (Rec. Decomba.- 111, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 17. Tho wool 6ale3 closed with an offering of 12,000 bales of frco wools, of which 5200 were Australian merinos, for which thero was good competition. Practicaliy all wore cleared at about, 15 per. cent, ulovo tho lust free sale ratt;s, bringing prices to about on a par with Government reserves.' TJioro wns ft good home (lomnrul, and. moro Continental orders, both on German and Belgian account. Govornment wools closcd practically unchanged from tho opening rates. A toifil of 52,595 bales wero offered and) three* quarters were unsold,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable issn. t AUSTRALIAN WOOL FOR GERMANY Sydney, December 18. The Tisuaren, tho first vessel to sail for Germany sinoe 1914, has loft with a cargo of wool foT Hamburg. Press Assn.

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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 73, 20 December 1920, Page 6

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WOOL PRICES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 73, 20 December 1920, Page 6

WOOL PRICES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 73, 20 December 1920, Page 6

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