THE MARAEKAKAHO WOOL CLIP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 912, 3 September 1910, Page 8

THE MARAEKAKAHO WOOL CLIP.

'.BRADFORD'S "APPRECIATION. .•: ■«' In '. ■ Jiis -valuable - pastoral "-paper : the Record," .Mr. S.'.' B.. ; "Hollings;'.tho : celebrated wool -.expert ■' of/Bradford, writes under, date February 3, 1910:— . ■ "Tho Hatchet brand of wool, as it is known iu; this, country, tis sometimes termed; Crook and' Bundle, but - both descriptions are wrong. That .clip is owned by Mr. E. D. D. M Lean, of Maraukakulio, Hawke's. Bay, New Zealand, and is always spoken of locally, as Lochaber Axe— iu .other, words,,'an old Scotch battleaxe. Thevtp'p price realised in. Coleman Street this" series was- Is.: 4M. ,for grease line tralfbred;,. We have word from .that tlis- , iriot ..that five of the .hulfbied- Lincoln-' merino ; ewe, hoggets .recently sold from that country, and, of which one obtained the.Reserve Championship and first prize in. the , class ofsihglor.ewra at, the Canter-, buryA. and -P. show,-yielded when shorn, 851b. 0f.,w001. :The\principal prize-taker had- a fleece of 181b.,: two. 171b., and two ISllb. ; The staple, was from. Din. to lOin. IODg.V - .-■■ ■■ ■' '';•>■■-•-■. V -. ; ' It is a fact worthy , of; ■ note. . that QuibeH's Powder Dip has' been Jin. use m this, celebrated station for'a'.mimber of , years past, and; the : results; obtained- speak for themselves as. to the satisfaction;"it has given.—Advt. . . ; ■■'''■'.■■■[. ■'■/■ '■■

At the Cardiff Dairy.Company's annual meeting Mr. A. J. Smith said that, the date when.- the factory' would rc-open should be determined early in .the winter, so that the factory would bo -waiting for tho suppliers and not'tho suppliers for the factory, '-.