WOOL CLASSING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 637, 14 October 1909, Page 10

WOOL CLASSING.

NAPIEK TECHNICAL COLLEGE ,:rt A't-,{eatii're'-. ; 6f-'theTourTicnlM, of 'Fho :Napier ■ : has- been': a; course of ..in- 1 :/fi^rtictiqEi.:; iii .v wopl-classirig» which ; hasi • been . •tThe'classes Have beep'-conducted by Mr. S. and: oii: Saturday-' last an- examination :.was'hold :at. ( :Napier ;by'Mr., G. -S.'V;. Wenley, of-rthe and .Lariauzo.. -.This examinationxcovercd, both l theoretical' and practical- and vof the;: fifreenr candidates e 4/.? Q^^^d,;ins^p^ing,, ;niito-:beiiig plabed •in - the - first-xJlass ; ,,i ) ; ; ••' v . ;; f ; -The.examiner; tof the practical ,y' vorK r 'instructor - and "••.students J- haveJbMn . handicapped the session 'f;by j tho' lack * of' a - 'good selection 1 -.'" of'' wool; and ; if' a-few. growers' presented _a seleotion mt ces . qualities to thOechool. year's 'test .v.was ;'a .ratherinferior/selection >of . pieces Tangling; from:.poor. njerino tolow'-crossbred.' The ' ..classirig ' but \of, T .qual)ties well done, and all 'students ; ha*:e ;deriyed' a Knowledge 7 ;.,which,',\nll.'be :of iadvantage., to-' them /in' any tof^^'|)factical^^wo^k;■• , th'ey-.' m'ay - en- . 'ib.' ,>lf. possible ; the • instructor should• tvy, ;aTrarige -for i the tot .risit : one 'of ' the rlarge ,up : tp-date;,sheds Vduring .shearing."'"'' i . -.The results of .' the' examination .were as fo\l ;low:—First-class • Pas^esf: ■ Albert .E.; Bourgeois,' ;• 'jM-fper-.'cent.;■{L'. 1 : M:•' Espagne, : 86 per cent.; Harold:P.',Kay,->BO-per cent.j Arthur J. Dean, • : ;:78 j^r f 'Mnt,i cent, j Her« bertiKmg.'Vr): per ccnt.j Jam&s M. Robertson; 73 per. c«nt. j t vJohn;'F. Kelly, 06 peri cent-; ;>Alfred ''M\ i:; Beffy» .'per 'cent. - Second-class l - : passe&: : ; Carl ;; 61! . ;per ■ cent.; :f OstvaldrN; 1 Hallett/'6o'per cent. • v -; v .