COTTON-GROWING IN AUSTRALIA
CLAIMS FOR ASSISTANCE. London, November 25. Air. H. C. Armstrong, director of the Australian Cotton-growing Association, after visiting America with Air. Crawford Vaughan, is conferring with Sir James Currie, chairman of the L'mpire Cotton Corporation, which controls tho expenditure of the British Government’s million pounds vote. He is urging the application of a general Australian price guarantee to tho prospective new growers, to include the Murray and Murrumbidgee irrigation areas and other areas from which cotton production may bo expected l . Sir James Currie stated that the question of a fixed minimum price would be subject to favourable consideration, and promised assistance on the export direction of tl» industry. Further conferences will follow. Mr. R. L. Shepherd (of tho Federal High office) is also vigorously pressing Australia’s claims. A cojiiplete ginning plant of tho latest design is being shipped from America for Brisbane to-day.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 55, 28 November 1921, Page 5
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149COTTON-GROWING IN AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 55, 28 November 1921, Page 5
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