Wool for America.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2934, 26 June 1888, Page 3

Wool for America.

Woolgrowew throughout tho Colony will no doubt be pleased to note the

unopposed return of President ClevoJ land for anothor term to the Presidential chair of the United States, Cleveland Ims been a steady advocate for a modified tariff in the importation of Avool to the United States, and it was due to his energetic and persistent advocacy that the matter reached so forward a start as to be discussed at all in the Senate. To be sure, it met with strong opposition, both in Senate and in a powerful section of the United States Press, but it also received a quite unexpectedly large measure of support, and it is not by any means hopeless that the tariff . will be brought about, President Cleveland, when the opportunity again arrives to re-introduce the scheme, will certainly do so, and it is devoutly to be hoped that it will be acecpted, fraught as it is with such importance to New Zsaland, and to tho Middle Island especially, from which comes

the hulk of the cross-bred wool. An important factor in this connection is vthe enormous growth of the United States population, simultaneous with a decrease in the number of sheep. It is only a matter of time, when the imports of wool by the people of the United States, not large now comparatively, will be very large indeed, and for this demand New Zealand must provide a portion of the supply,