TRADE IN WOOL
GROUND NEEDLESSLY LOST INCREASED PURCHASES URGED. BACKBONE OF DOMINION ECONOMICS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. “Largely through complacency in the wool trade, it has lost ground which, on its merits, it should never have done,” said Sir F. Clunies Ross at the International Wool Secretary’s lunch at a Mayfair Hotel. The function was preceded by a manhequin display o.f the most attractive fashions in wool lingeries, paraded in a campaign to po-» pularise woollen underwear. Sir F. Ross pointed to the example of New Zealand’s impulse to reduce imports in order conscientiously to meet debt charges in London. It was a reminder of the need of increased purchases of Dominion products, notably wool, which is the backbone of Australian, New Zealand and South African economics. lienee British prosperity by .trade was interlinked with theirs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 6
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144TRADE IN WOOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 6
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