The Organisation of the Wool Industry. 187 
Latham v. Johnson & Nephew, Lim. (82 L.J.K.B., 258 ; 
1913, 1 K.B., 398) is an important case on a subject that has 
been the subject of considerable legal discussion of late, 
namely, the liability of a landowner for injuries happening to 
persons on his land whom he has permitted to come there. A 
child of two and a half years of age came unaccompanied on 
to land belonging to the defendants who were aware that 
children were in the habit of coming there to play. Whilst on 
the land the child was injured by the fall of a stone from a 
heap of stones deposited there by the defendants. It was held 
that the child was not entitled to recover damages from the 
defendants for negligence. The child was at most a mere 
licensee while the use of the land by the defendants had been 
perfectly normal and the heap of stones did not constitute a 
trap. It was laid down that a landowner who allows persons, 
whether adults or children to come on to his land is not liable 
for an accident which happens to one of them there unless the 
coming on the land was the result of allurement or invitation, 
or unless the accident was due to something in the nature of a 
concealed trap or to something dangerous and outside the 
ordinary use of the land which the landowner brought on to it 
without warning the licensee. 
Aubrey J. Spencer. 
15 Old Square, 
Lincoln’s Inn, W.C. 
THE ORGANISATION OF THE WOOL 
INDUSTRY. 
A COMPARISON between the prices obtained for English wool 
when marketed on the usual lines and the prices obtained for 
Colonial wool of a similar class on the London Wool Markets 
leads to the conclusion that the more highly organised methods 
adopted by the Colonials in respect of classifying and packing, 
insure a better monetary return to the producers. Inquiries 
have been made by the Agricultural Organization Society 
amongst wool buyers in England and Wales, and the opinion 
was formed that if a more highly organised system of marketing 
was adopted by the home sheep farmers, they might reasonably 
expect to obtain better prices for home grown wool. The 
outstanding features of the Colonial system are the classification 
of the wool and the placing of it when classified on the market 
in large consignments so that the woollen manufacturers can, 
with a minimum amount of trouble, buy just the quality and 
amount which they require for a particular kind of cloth or 
other woollen article. 
