TRADE WITH RUSSIA
BENEFITS TO COMMONWEALTH
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, August 27,
Givings evidence before the Wool Committee l Mr John Oswald Forsyth, a merchant, said that if th e Federal Government made some arrangement to trade .with Russia on a limited credit (system, such as 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 h'-s knowledge was gained by personal experience in these three countries oyer a period of fourteen years, Russia wrs a wocC-growing country, but had a population of 160,000,000, which wlinereasing at the 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 5
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