NOTABLE GATHERING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1938, Page 7

NOTABLE GATHERING

THE INTERNATIONAL WOOL CONFERENCE THIRTEEN COUNTRIES REPRESSENTED. SOME IMPORTANT PROBLEMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright.) (Recd This Day, 10.0 a.m.) ■ f .'.~ LONDON, June 16. Two hundred delegates from thirteen countries attended the opening of the plenary session of Wool Conference. New Zealand’s High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, was among distinguished people on the platform. The President of the Board of Trade, the Rt. Hon. Oliver Stanley, in opening the conference,? emphasised the necessity for such gatherings, in order to work towards lessening obstacles to international trade. The conference adopted a suggestion by M. Dubrulle, that the Management Committee be authorised to establish an international office for the exchange of student employees in the wool and textile industries. The conference agreed that national committees consider the sanctity of contracts question and send in reports to the executive which will decide what should be done. The Italian delegation strenuously opposed the'suggestion that the names of repudiators of contracts should be black-listed. With the exception of Germany, the conference passed a resolution that it is desirable that each country legislate to govern the use of the word “wool” when applied to goods exposed for sale.