WOOL STABILISATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1003, 20 June 1930, Page 13

WOOL STABILISATION

FARMERS' UNION VIEWS CO OPERATION WITH AUSTRALIA WELLINGTON, Thursday. [ The principle of the establishment * of a Wool Stabilisation Board has been affirmed by the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the Sheepowners’ Federation in conference. The report of the meeting of the committees of each body was submitted to the conference of the Farmers’ Union today, as follows: “At the meeting of the committees Mr. IT. D. Acland stated that at a meeting of the Sheepowners’ Federation just held, the following resolution had been passed:—‘That, as the Australian sheepowners’ conference is now sitting, we maintain the position agreed on at the previous conference regarding wool control until Australia reaches a decision, and that, should a scheme bo adopted by Australia on a federal basis with South Africa, this committee again meets with a view to our co-operation along lines adaptable to New Zealand interests.’ “After discussion it was unanimously decided ‘that the sheepowners’ resolution as given above be adopted, with the deletion of the word control and the substitution of the word stabilisation.’ It was also unanimously decided that a joint committee be appointed, comprising seven members of the Farmers’ Union and seven members of the Sheepowners’ Federation.” After the report had been read the president, Mr. W. J. Poison, said the joint committee had come to a unanimous decision, and the conference must either accept or reject the report. Mr. F. S. Bowen, one of the representatives on the committee, said the Australian sheepowners were now meeting in Brisbane, and the Australian Wool Growing Council would meet next week. The Australians had invited New Zealand to join them. They had already met the South Africans at Capetown, and had agreed that South Africa should join Australia in whatever plans were made with regard to the stabilisation of wool. Whatever they agreed that it was necessary to do, New Zealand should join in. He therefore asked the conference to adopt the report, as it was desired to send a cablegram to Brisbane immediately. The report was adopted unanimously without discussion. ANGORA WOOL The organiser of the New Zealand Fur Board, Mr. Arthur Sainsbury, of Auckland, supplies the following information: — “The board has arranged a market for all the Angora wool output of its members at the following approximate prices: First grade, 30s a lb; second grade, 255; third grade, 12s; fourth grade, ss. The grading qualities are: First, plucked three-inch staple; second, shorn three-inch; third, shorter wool; fourth, clean cotted and matted wool.”