11 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 28

Reports from the United States testify to the interest caused

by the visit of the British Delegation to encourage cotton-growing in Australia, which has just arrived at Sydney, N.S.W. The delegation, on its way through the United States, was entertained by branches of the English- Speaking Union of America, and by Chambers of Com- merce and Commercial Clubs in New York, Buffalo, Chicago 'and San Francisco. Owing to theravages of the boil weevil, the world's production of cotton last year was 4,250,006 bales below the demand, and, unless some antidote to the boll weevil is discovered, American consumption alone will ultimately catch up with American supply.