WOOL CONFERENCE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 154, 17 July 1937, Page 6

WOOL CONFERENCE

-Own Correspondent.)

N.Z. Representatives' Viewii

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Air Mail—

LONDON, June 16. Lord Barnby and Mr Neville Wright, scientific liaison oSB^cr to the New Zealand Government, are the New' Zealand. delegates to the annual conference of tho International Wool Testile Organisation in Paris. Woolgfowing countries of the Empire are to he more widely represented thaii usual at this conference,. and, in addition to New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and South America will have special delegates attending, so that wopl producing and consuming countries will enjoy aai op•portunity possibly uniijue in the history of the indnstry for the interchange of views, the discussion of numerous matters of common interest, and the forrnulation of inter-reJated policies wher« such are deemed desirable. ''For the first time in many yeara the conference promises to bring together what might be termed the pastoral research in progress • in woolgrowing countries, and the , industrial research earried out in manufacturing countries, and — while it is reasonable to assume that tlie two are in constant inter-communication— it seems cleaj that the way is paved for real advancement when the two sections come together in company with the men wh» produce the wool and those who usa it," comments the Yorkshire Post. "The wool and allied industries are by no means behind otlier principal industrial groups in the amount of attenfion devoted to research, but, in the very nature of the trade, it. is somewhat widely spread, and everything which can tend to co-ordination of effort and prevent-ion of duplication is eminently desirable, " A topic of more than passing interest is promised as a. result of the organisation's efforts to define 'wod| goods,' 'pure wool goods,' and the like terms calculated to meet with the apporval of all countries. The wrongful use of the word 'wool,' arising from ths praetice of describing as of wool something but partly made from the staple of the slieep, is sadly too prevalent, and the desirability of arriving at standard definitions for which statutory authority might be sought in all countries has been long recoguised."