THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1911. A FRENCH "WOOL KING."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10295, 26 July 1911, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1911. A FRENCH "WOOL KING."

Most, of us have heard of Roubaix—a place somewhere in France where (there is an exhibition or something at which the Commonwealth Unas a pavilion (writes the London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald). We read of it about a month ago. And yet they say that of the whole of the wool that at present wanders about Australian paddocks about one-third eventually goes to Roubaix and its district—one-third of our whole ©lip. Roubaix is one of a cluster of three Lille, and Tourcoing—which have a population 'between ithem of 'about 1,000,000, and aire the centre of the woollen industry in France." That is why the Common wealtn is exhibiting •in Roubaix. Argentine is exhibiting too, and for many times the money has iput up a show not superior ira many ways to that which Australia has achieved for £2OOO. New Zealand spent £2OOO there also. The Mayor of Roubaix, Mons. Eugenie •Motto, is the biggest manufacturer of wool in the man who, besides buying the whole' of the French clip, actually takes over £1,000,000 worth of wool from Australia. Seeing that frozen meat isniotti aEtewed into France, and it is

only by a ooneGS&icai. that an exhibit of it lias boon allowed into Roubaix, it may be important thai a commer•oial authority like Mens. Motto is eo closely in, touch with Australasia.