WOOL FOR AMERICA.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 607, 1 October 1913, Page 2

WOOL FOR AMERICA.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., in their annual "Wool Review," point out that there are great possibilities ahead for Austalasian wool in America. The "Review" says:—"What, then, muat he expected to happen during the free wool and free meat period immediately ahead, where the population of the country exceeds 93,000,000 souls? The fact that the annual slaughtering of cattle, as well as of sheen, are made in excell of the natural increase, that the masses have a greater liking for a meat diet than formerly, and are in a better position to satisfy their de sire points to great noisibilities in the near future. The solution is simple. With free wool the meat, the flocks of the United States will in all probability be reduced to a vanishin." point. Therefore, with but little local production of wool, and the doors or the nation (expanding in population and wealth) open, it is obvious that an enormous weight of Australasian wools will in future come under the scope of American demand to the great benefit of the large army of flock-masters in Australasia, a 3 well as the Australian nation and Dominion of New Zealand as a whole. "Of course, there is no certainty that we will benefit immediately from any big demand for wool from U.S.A. Stocks of wool and woollen goods are admittedly low in that country, but at s'ho present time the general purchasing power of the people is crippled temporary by financial stringency which, severe as it is ;he world over, is psrhaps worse in liie United States than elsewhere, 1!: is hard to see how, when, and where Americans will operate, hut at present everyone interested in the Ausi: nlasinn wool trade hopes that the expansion in the demand for wool for iimt country will

manifest itself during the coming colonial wool-selling, season."