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Wool : a history of New Zealand's wool industry / Bill Carter & John MacGibbon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Wellington, N.Z. : Ngaio Press, 2003.Description: 368 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 28 cmISBN:
  • 095822434X (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.17631450993 21
Summary: WOOL traces the story of New Zealand's wool industry from inauspicious beginnings in 1779, when Captain Cook landed a pair of sheep that lived only two days, through colonial farm development, shearing, research & development, the 'wool trade', farmer politics, grower levies, market support schemes and statutory wool organisations, to wool products and their promotion, here and overseas.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-359) and index.

WOOL traces the story of New Zealand's wool industry from inauspicious beginnings in 1779, when Captain Cook landed a pair of sheep that lived only two days, through colonial farm development, shearing, research & development, the 'wool trade', farmer politics, grower levies, market support schemes and statutory wool organisations, to wool products and their promotion, here and overseas.

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