WOOL CONTROL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 5

WOOL CONTROL

ATTACKED BY SIR DALZIEL KELLY CHAIRMAN OF AUSTRALIAN BOARD. SCHEME IN THE INTERESTS OF BRADFORD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Cop/,Tight. MELBOURNE. March 1. Sir Dalziel Kelly, chairman of the Australian Wool Board, in an outspoken statement today declared: —“British wool control is administered from Bradford apparently in the interests of Bradford.” He added that obviously it was Bradford's desire to sell manufactured and semi-manufactured goods to other countries rather than make available adequate supplies at reasonable prices. “Wool is going into store instead of being released for consumption and the end of the war will find art accumulation of stocks that, with competition from artificial fibres, will cause complete collapse of prices and disaster to growers.’’ The board has appealed to the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, urging that the British Government see that more wool is released for consumption. It has also cabled the International Wool Secretariat for- Dr Clunies Ross to fly to Australia in order to impart information which secrecy and censorship make it difficult to obtain. OPINION IN BRITAIN AUSTRALIAN CRITICISM ENDORSED. TRADE SPLIT FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. (Received This Day. 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 1. Leaders of the British wool industry fully endorse Sir Dalziel Kelly’s attack on the wool control policy, as a result of which the Home trade is split from top to bottom. It is apparent that the British Wool Federation does not intend altering its decision to secede from the British Wool Delegagation. A bitter controversy has been raging for weeks in the Yorkshire Press, because it is claimed that manufacturers are piling up large profits while importers are reduced to the role of commission agents for the Government.