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THE Austrian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is to embark on an extensive programme of research on wool production and manufacture. Australia has a sheep population of approximately 120,000,000, from which is derived the most valuable item of her export trade. To aid this valuable industry the Federal Parliament has recently enacted the Wool Use Promotion Act (1945) and the Wool Tax Act (1936/45) (see Nature, 157, 71 ; 1946). The latter of these legislative measures provides for the collection of 2s. per bale on all wool produced. This will bring in an annual income of about £300,000, and this sum is to form the Wool Use Promotion Fund, which is to be administered by the Wool Board, newly constituted under the Wool Use Promotion Act, “to make arrangements with persons, authorities and organizations in Australia and in other countries for joint measures of publicity or other means for the promotion of the use of wool”.
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WOOL TEXTILE RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA. Nature 158, 70 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158070a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158070a0