Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Monday 16 May 1938, page 7


Hyde Park Wool For Woolsack

Courier-Mail Special Service

LONDON, May 15.— The First Commissioner of Works (Sir Philip Sassoon) has urged that some of the wool from the sheep which graze in Hyde Park should be ear-marked for stuffing the Woolsack, used by the Lord Chancellor in his Parliamentary capacity. Sir Dalziel Kelly, of Australia, called attention recently to the fact that the Woolsack was stuffed with horsehair, and protested.