THE WOOL SALES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11481, 14 January 1903, Page 8

THE WOOL SALES.

TO TUE EDITOR OP THE I'RESS. > . Sir, —I have a grievance, or an imaginary t grievance, so I take th«e 'opportunity availing myself of your valuable epaiit,. Some time ago the w»olbrok«rs of church decided to clos<? tlwir catalogue ,, ?] on a .Saturday night, thinking that it would i give them more tame in which to get thei? £J catalogues out, and to arrange all the minor g details of the work, and with the specified object in view of allowing more time fur iij buyers to inspect the parcels. Thie week,7« I anticipate that the various catalogv«»|i will comprise 16.000 or more bales of woojisjp and many hundreds of lots, and yet this enormous amount of wool lias' to be .'*? valued in two days—the interests of some- jrj one must suffer. If the buyers had days in which to inspect, it would be reasonable. In a. market like this, wheia t?4 it becomes the duty of the boyers to vait» -3J nearly every lot, and the parcels are ■β-ylj varied and mixed, it is on absolute umpo* , eibility for them to value with any degree of accuracy every parcel which is d»s» ,_*'. played for sale. Trusting that some abler f^ , pen than mine will taks up thas grievao* ~-g Yours, etc., INTERiiiJI'ED - r