SALE OF WIDGIEWA WOOL IN LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 February 1908, Page 2

SALE OF WIDGIEWA WOOL IN LONDON.

Tho mero announcement that; the" "jWid- ••'. giewa". clip will be' ottered, for . Sale on'; a "cer- ' tain date is of itselt sufficient to crowd the . London wool salerooms-with «n-eager,-throng r of would-be buyers. The perfection to which y this famous clip lias been brqught is ■well'" known to tho wool trade throughout the world, ; and the following paragraph, ! wliich. is takor'r from the report of that .well-known Eradfor.' wool expert, Mr. S. B. Jjolliq'gs, should ,i ' terest every man who aims'to/produce wool ." the best quality according to-tho breed.of sh' ; in which ho is interested—viz. "Mr. J.'S. Horsfull's well-known' 'Widgie''i and 'ICerarbury' clips were offered on the i > day of tho sixth series of London sales, 1.and notwithstanding a full lil. to' ljd. per , drop; his first lot of stopffiScombirig giewa' made Hjd-. and Hd. was paid for ■$'£ top lot of 'Kerarbury.' • H'lie . opening ' ii'ii showed considerable hositatiqn; mid yet '.li these wools' tbero was plenty of competition, and the prices paid prove conclusively the excellence, of tho wools." ' These uro weighty words , from an expert who is recognised as one of tlib most eminent authorities on wool in tlie '4orW at tlio pro- ; sent time. Mr. Horsfnll's clip'Viins iiiio suiiie 4900 bales annually, and hisCttanager, Mr. A, ; L. Morrison, who has conddi&d careful experiments with perhaps ; alj' the':l)6st-kn6wn brands of sheen dips at prcse'iftion tho market, emphatically, declares Mint, an aid to tho production of a perfect (leecejof. wool QuibollV Uips-whicli aro oxclusivoly yfed on all Mr. • Horsfall s extensive properties—have no ■ .superior, and few, if any, eqiViU'. itvT 7 ' thr , ou S;! oui .tho M<Sild n M a Quibell-dipped clip • is 1 ' offered fiill i endorses these opinions. ' «■■■■ 75^5