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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 561, 29 November 1881, Page 4

W,SB,Xi, ami M, Company TXT 00L AND • pRAIN TTTAREHOUSES. THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY; COMPANY (LIMITED), CHRISTCHURCH, DIJNEDIN, WELLINGTON, AUCKLAND (And throughout Now Zealand), MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, AND LONDON. CAPITAL £3,000,000. Perceiving the increasing importance of Local Auction Sales for the disposal of WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, BIDES, TALLOW, GRAIN, and other AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE, and desirous of consulting the requirements of its numerous and valued constituents, the Company has completed arrangements for holding PERIODICAL SALES OF WOOL during the season,and other PRODUCE throughout the year. The FIRST SALE OF WOOL will he held at the Warehouse of Mr C. W. TURNER, South Town Belt, on WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1881. The Christchurch Wool and Grain Warehouses, now in course of erection for the Company, occupy a commanding position on the main lino of Railway, at the DURHAM STREET CROSSING, mid are eervel by Sidings running directly into and alongside them. With the facilities thus afforded, the Company is enabled to adopt the undermentioned EXCEPTIONALLY LOW SCALE OF CHARGES, which will be found •considerably below those now in force at Melbourne and elsewhere. As evidence of the unparalleled position acquired by the Company in the Wool Trade, a Lit •of the Principal. Importersinto London is here appended :— THE LONDON WOOL MARKET, 1880. AUSTRALASIAN AND CAPE WOOL IMPCRTERSOF OVER 10,000 BALES. BALES. JBew Zealand JLorii and Mercantile Agency Company JLiiiiittMl ; : : : *1>341 Dalgety, Dn Croz & Co. 68,802 Australian Mortgflge, Lnnd and Finance Company G3,729 Sanderson, Murray & Co. ... ... 45,024 A. L. Elder ... ... ... ... 3f.,9tf2 Young, Elilers & Co. ... ... ... 28,331 F. Hutli & Co 5^0,629 R. Brooks & Co. ■ 20,119 Lusliinnn, Intrlis & Co • 19.G18 Commercial Bank of Sydney ... 19,298 A. B.irsdorf 15.945 lledfei ii. Alexander & Co 15,938 Bank of New South Wales ... 15,414 .lames Morrison & Co. 14,280 E. Holt & Co 13,405 W.Griee&Co ... ... 10,892 Miles Brothers & Go. 10,681 National Moitgage t n;l Agency Company of New Zealand ... 10,383 New Zealand and Australian Land Company 10.073 A. Scott 10,073 This immense growth of the Company's Wool Business furnishes sufficient evidenco of the completeness of its arrangements and efficiency of management; and it is intended to devote to the local trade the same skill and energy which have produced fiuch marked results.

FARMERS' PARCELS. Will receive Special Attention. Every Lot, whether large or small, will be valued by experts engaged for the purpose, and fully protected up to Market'Hato. Any Lois not reaching owners' reserve can be re-offered or shipped through the Company, at their option, in which latter case the charges Mini ed to Is PER BALE, to cover receiving, cataloguing, offering, storage, and delivering. Awiple ■ accommodation will be provided for the efficient -display of every Lot. As the Cmnpiiny act as SELLING BROKERS ONLY, and undertake no comiiiiKt-ions for purchasing Wool, both Buyers and Sellers are offered an undoubted guarantee that all Lots will be sold on their uiorits. CHARGES ON PKODUCE ARE AS FOLLOWS:—_ . WOOL.—Rpceiving, Dolivering, and Classifying, 2s per Bale, 6d per Bag; Insurance, (3d per Bale, 3d per Bag ; Cataloguing and Advertising, 3d per Bale; Commission. 1£ percent over £500, per cent under £500. SHEEPSKINS.—Receiving and Delivering, Is per 50 ; Commission, 2£ per cent. HlDES.—Receiving and Delivering : If salted, in store, Is each; green, 6d; Commission, 2ijr per cent. GRAlN.—Receiving, Weighing, and Deliveiing, 2(1 per Bng ; Storage, £d per Bag per week ; Commission, 2£ per cent. The advantageous position occupied by the Company's Warehouses enables it to save clients thb cost of Cartage and Terminal Railway Charge. Promptitude in rendering Account Sales and methodical treatment of Consignments, combined with skill and judgment in effecting Sales, will be especial features in the conduct of the Produce Department; LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES effected on Freeholds, on Stations and Stock, and on Growing Crops and Clips of Wool. INDENTS undertaken of British, Continental, Eastern, and American Goods, and Commissions executed in all Branches of Mercantile Business. WOOLPACKS AND CORNSACKS supplied at the Lowest Current Rates. JOHN COOKE, Manager. L. S. HARLEY, Picduce Manager.