SOUTH AFRICA.
THE WOOL QUESTION. \ POSITION WORSE THAN LAST YEAR. Capetown, Oct. 16. An important conference of wool farmer:! met at Pretoria to consider the wool question, but owing to the epidemic only some of the intended delegates were present. Mr Robertson, the administrator for the Transvaal, himself a big wool farmer, said the position was worse' than last year and the tonnage scarcer. With half a million bales of the new clip coming in. the market would be much worse unless the present stocks were moved. * America was not buying, and Japan was taking very little. He hoped Congress wcjpld found a permanent organisation to deal with the question.—Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1918, Page 6
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110SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1918, Page 6
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