The Australian Wool Trade.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1493, 29 October 1885, Page 4

The Australian Wool Trade.

THE OPENING-TCP OF NEW

j A Jneetin^.of wpolprofliicers and others faterested m iiie expansion of the Aiis'tra' lasian wool .trade,' conyened\by Messrs Monckton D. Synnot Bros M Was held at Scottf &H6&l fyesterday: afUeindonl' :The*e was a large and representative attendance of tB&sJ irfteMtea iaf>altorai%iterests, about 200 gentlemen beibg present. SfryJames, vM'Gdllooh . $m» ,Vptedsto, ]the \ chair. • ■ . [■'„•■< *p. ,■> \ '■ ' Mr George Fairbairn, v ito.V moved the first resolution as follows ".-**'* That this meeting, recognising the necessity forassqpiatejl fjffort, wi^h a .sew ( of securing- , iie# outlets for our produce- resolves-^ That a^lmKneflt' geherar i comniii6iSe, s -rd- . presentative of ' the'Wool-jficoddcing in 1 . , terests of ; the yarjoue colonies,b» appointed ; that the p J rovisibhal''comniittee here- .. with, at*)unc«d;to btfthe nucleuartherepf^ and its aim i that of securing. united action m all matters aißfectingitHid^ool-grovring interest, more especially m, the matter of fostering the trade m wool with Ghiha; .Japan, and British India." He did not think the motion; required any remark on I his part, but with . reference to South American -woqlgr^wers, he was not.atall iafraid of them. There was : littie Kkeli-; j hood of South America becoming a great ■ iwool-producingi. country,. fudging by the. I excellent article on j:he_niatter_which re- \ land was well, suited tor agriculture, fbut^ , waistoo riohJor's^eep; Au3tValia needr ' ifeatr no r c6untry in ; tHeiworldiih.gro^ipg| i wQol of the best quality. f'.'ii.i l^rfi^.jjir. pume^moved : "Thatj ahf ' executive committee be and is hereby; I appointed, as per names .appended, jwhd| are authorised and requested to ta>ke| . prompt action m reference to.the. matter' under discussion, namely^ Sir ■£fftj--* J.; Clarke, Bart., Mr 0. M. Otocer, M.Hi.A., Messrs/ . A-r; Bo\yan, r jP., Or, , A,. Longhnan, J. L. Currie, F. W» Armyta'ge D.F.jJodf/e.Y.Gl^l Stewart, and M. D. Synnot/%ith l powert64dd <B their:niim^ ber." : .'/.Sir George Verdon^C.B.,:said)that:aß one 'whose pastoral ■ possessions < were limited as he believed to three cows— it seemed presumptuous on his part to address the meeting. He maintained, however, that this wai not at all a question exclusively affecting pastoral- interests. The sooner they got riii , f the opitiioii . that the pastoral interest of this country : could ( guffer without another industry j suffering with it. the .better tor all of! them. This was ,a_matter affecting the } whole community, not only of Victoria, f but of Australia j;,and if political federa- . tion was nbt*yet prpcticable, thelcolonies | "could "federate upoh such matters as; these. The ' resolution -placed ■ m his ; ! hands was perhaps the most important j and practical of all. It was as follows : I -^-'* That a fund beprovided by^ubsbrip- ; lions, invited from all. woolgrowers throu?hpn6 Australia/ to jHe administered ,by the Executive. committee at their dis-; Vretton^ih'f Ortherance'oi '* iW : movemeTnt under consideration.'; i: He would sug-i gBBt a verbal amendment, however, so; tlmt subscriptions might not be limited^ to wool producers. Speaking now as the; officer of a banking corporation, he con-! sidered it his duty to come forward and; help m this matter, and he would take it as a privilege to put the name of his bank down oh thn list for whichhe hoped would be the smallest sum received, i

All the resolutions were carried. — \ Argus of the 14th inst. i