THE WOOL MARKETS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2476, 5 September 1922, Page 4

THE WOOL MARKETS.

AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE

RESENTMENT IN YOli KSHI.IU

LONDON, Sept. 1. The Yorkshire newspapers comment strongly and resentfully on Sir John Higgins’s speech at the wool conference in Melbourne. The Observer asks whether when trying to cajole the Australian growers into agreeing to his audacious projects, Sir John Higgins in speaking on behalf of the Bawra and if the members of the London board endorse his remarkable speeches. The Observer adds: “After Sir John Higgins’s speech there is ground for suspecting that there is a definite movement behind the scenes to perpetuate the existing machinery for control of the wool supplies. There have been expressions in Bradford of very strong resentment against the line of policy advocated at the Australian Conference.” The Yorkshire Post says: “Here iff further proof of the contention that the Bawra ceased to he an impartial body for the disposal of the wool in which the Imperial Government and the wool growers were jointly interested. What is for the welfare of the wool and textile industries, and the consumers of wool clothing in this country who arc entitled to consideration because the British Govern incut’s money was used for the purchase of the wool, appears to be entirely ignored. Is it not time the British Government’s attention was called to the Bawra’s changed character with the view to enforcing selling arrangements which would secure more consideration for our wool and textile industries and the consumers.”—A. and N.Z. cable.