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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 568, 23 December 1881, Page 4

_-,_.,Ji, and M, Company /CHRISTCHURCH TKT O(>L AND pRAIN TTTAHEHOUSKS, THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED), CHRISTCHURCH. DUNEDIN, WELLING T0 N, AUCKLAND (And throughout New, Zealand), MELBOURNE, S V D N E V, AND LONDON. CAPITAL £3,000,000. Perceiving the increasing importance of Local Auction Sales'for the disposal of WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, HIDES, 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 P RODUC E throughout the year. The FIRST SALE OF WOOL will be lipid at the Warehouse of Mr C. W. TURNER, tr outh Town Belt, on WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1881. - The Christchurch Wool and Grain Warehouses, now in course oi: erection •for the Company, occupy a commanding position on the main lino of Railway, at the DURHAM STREET CROSSING, and are serve 1 by Sidings running directly into and alongside them. With tho facilities thus afforded, the Company is enabled to adopt the undermentioned EXCEPTIONALLY LOW SCALE OF CHARGED, 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 Li-t of the Principal Importers into London is here appenoled :— THE LONDON WOOL MARKET, 1880. AUSTRALASIAN AND CAPE WOOL IMPORTERS OF OVER 10,000 BALES. HALES. .Hew -Benl-tiid JLonn ami Mercantile Ag-ency Company liiiaili'nl ; : : : 'Sl.iSSl Dalgety, Dv Croz & Co 68,-02 .Austrnlian Mortgage, Land and Finance Company 03,729 ♦Sanderson, Murray & Co 45,024 A. L. Elder 30,982 Young, Elders & Co 28,331 F. Huth & Co 20,029 It. Brooks &Co ~ 20.119 Liishnifin, Inglis & Co 19.018 Commercial Bank of Sydney ... 19.298 A. Barsdorf 15.945 licdfern, Alexander & Co 15,9118 Bank of New South Wales ... 15.4*14 James Morrison & Co 14.280 E. Holt & Co 13,405 \V.Grice--Co 10,892 Miles Brothers--Co 10,081 National Mortgage nnd AgencyCompany of New Zealand ... 10,383 Now Zealand and Australian Land Company 10,073 A. Scott 10,073 This immense growth of tbe Company's Wool Business furnishes sufficient evidence 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 such 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 Raton. Any .Lots not reaching owners' reserve can be .re-offered orshipped through the Company, their option, in which latter case the •charges will be limited to Is PER BALE, to cover receiving, cataloguing, offering, storage, and delivering. Ample accommodation will be provided for the efficient display of every Lot. As the Company act as SELLINGBROKERS ONLY," and undertake no commissions for purchasing Word, both Buyers and Sellers are offered an undoubted guarantee that all Lots will be sold on their merits.

OHAKGES ON PRODUCE ARE AS FOLLOWS :— WOOL.—Receiving, Delivering, and Classifying, 2s per Bale, Gd per Bag; insurance, Od per Bale, 3d per Bag ; Cataloguing and Advertising, 3d per Bale ; Commission. l£ percent over £500, 2_-per ■cent under £SUO. SHEKPSKINS.—Receiving and Delivering, 1b per 50 ; Commission, 2_ per cent. HlDES.—Receiving and Delivering : If salted, in store, Is each ; green, Gd; Coiimiissidti, 2_- per cent. GRAIN. — Receiving, Weighing, and Delivering, 2d per Bag ; Storage, 4d per Bag per week ; Commission, 2_- per cent. The advantageous position occupied by the Company's Warehouses enables it to save clients the cost of Cartage and Terminnl Railway Charge. Promptitude in rendering Account Sales ami 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 eil'ected on Freeholds, on Stations and Stock, and Jun Growing Crops and Clips of Wool. uudertnk-n 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. E. S. HAI.ILEY, Pr.duce Manager.