WOOL INDUSTRY

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1929, Page 3

WOOL INDUSTRY

MANUFACTURERS AND PRODUCERS. I: AUCKLAND, Jan. 14. A definite stop has been taken to coordinate the interests of producers and manufacturers engaged in the woollen industry in the British Empire. Dr J. E. Nichols, a, 'member of the Research Committee, set up after the wn.r by tlie woollen and worsted industries of Great Britain, arrived from Svdnev hv the Aorangi last evening, and will spend three month's in the Dominion. making a close investigation of the conditons of production. His tow is under the joint auspices of the Committee and the Empire Marketing Board. Dr Nichols has already spent three and a-half months in Australia, and after his visit to New Zealand will return to the Commonwealth, where he will remain for another three months. Then he will proceed to South Africa and Canada to study wool producing conditions in these countries. He will leave for Wellington this evening to confer with members of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Re-

search. “After tile war, manufacturers realiefe'd : that many of the problems connected with • the industry started at the producing centres,” said Dr Nichols. “The upshot was the setting of the committee. It was then decked that someone should tour the wool-producing countries of the Empire and inquire into the producing end of’the buisnbss, to investigate how the wool is produced and the difficulties of production, so that manufacturers may better understand the problems of producers and producers more readily appreciate the difficulties of manufacturers. “The industry in Great Britain is passing through a most interesting stage,” Dr Nichols added. “New processes are coming into use, and new markets, especially in the East, are being found. I am optimistic about the future of the industry. Its general state shows very satisfactory his tour, Dr Nichols will not for>ly note -methods and conditions of production, Wit will explore any possible changes in conditions for the information of manufactures. On his return to London, lie will furnish an extensive report to the Empire Marketing Board- and he hopes that the report will he to the mutual benefit of manufacturers and producers.