WOOL FOR IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1918, Page 8

WOOL FOR IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT

MEETING OF SOUTHLAND

FARMERS.

(BI lELBQ&APH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) INVERCARGILLi This Day. On Saturday afternoon, Mr. W. J. Lysnar, of'Gfsborne, addressed a meeting of Southland farmers at:the invitation of the A. and P. Association and tho Farmers' Union. He stated that'there was no desire to obtain for wool-growers extra monetary consideration for the full • period of the war and three monthß after. H© referred to a letter he had written to Sir James Allen asking the Government to make a public statement, and theonly reply was that the Government, in trying to arrange an, extension for twelve months from the 30th June following the cessation of 'hostilities! was meeting the desire of a majority of the wheat and wool growers. Mr. Lysnar said old stockings and rags wore selling in Eng-. land for more than double what New Zealand, clean wool was fetching, and, according to. Boston official wool prices, New Zealand wool was worth 4s 2d to 7s 3d. ■'•■'■'• After hearing Mr. W. J. Hunt, who opposed Mr. Lysnar's arguments, the meeting resolved that as the Imperial war requirements would he satisfied, the commandeers should stop three months after the war. It was also decided that the Government should ■ consult' with .the producers instead of, as at present, with i - commercial men and freezing .company '" directors. ' ■ . .'.' ».>.■ . ■ £;: ■'.■