WOOL EXHIBIT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 4

WOOL EXHIBIT

COMING TO MASTERTON SHORTLY

WORK OF THE N.Z. COUNCIL AND SECRETARIAT.

‘‘Many farmers are anxious to know what is being done with the wool levy of sixpence per bale that is being collected from them,” Sir William Perry, who is a member of the New Zealand Wool Council, observed in conversation with a "Times-Age” representative yesterday. "To begin with,” he added, “New Zealand, Australia and South Africa each have a Wool Council to deal with the wool levy. Each of these councils has a paid representative in London on the body known as the Wool Secretariat, which administers funds supplied to it on the basis of the quantity of wool produced in each country. There is also an Advisory Committee which confers with the Secretariat on questions of all kinds concerning wool sales, manufacture, advertising and scientific research. Mr R. S. Forsyth, of the Meat Control Board, is one of the members of the Advisory Committee. “The New Zealand Wool Council has a small but very choice exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition—an exhibit demonstrating most interestingly the wide range of excellent materials, including delicate and beautiful fabrics, that can be made from wool. Many of the fabrics included in the exhibit are made from wool which has been treated to make it unshrinkable. With the closing of the Centennial Exhibition this exhibit, with dress fabrics displayed in a mannequin parade, is to be shown in the principal towns in New Zealand, including Masterton. in the near future.”