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WOOL INQUIRY. ,
(Australian Press Association.)
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' (living evidence before the Wool ■ Committee Mr John Oswald Forsyth a merchant, said that, if the Federal Government made some arrangement to trade with Russia on a limited credit system, such asi that operating in Great Britain it would benefit Australia to the extent of £5,000,000 a year. «
Mr Forsyth gave evidence in regard to the markets for wool in China, Manchuria and Russia, and said that his knowledge was gained by personal experience in these' three countries over if period Gf fourteen years. Russia was a wool-growing country, but had a population of 160,000,000 which was increasing at a rate of, 2£ per cent annually. She never would be in a position to supply all her own requirements in fine wool' such as was grown in Australia.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1932, Page 3
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