REGISTRATION OF WOOL BRANDS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 931, 26 September 1910, Page 10

REGISTRATION OF WOOL BRANDS.

DISCUSSED AT MASTERTON , (By -Tel'eferawi.—Special Correspondent.» fvlasies'lcn, September 24. :.-,Ai.a ..meeting', of the local, branch of :Mo^^FarmOTV;•,Union:•tt^s•iff^lß6on7• : which IMi'.vD. presided, somi?' : di£ctissibfi' tocik place--on a 1 remit' from'; the Dominion Executive' dealing with; the; registration :of wool brands: : A!x ../.George '11. Syk«s.Nwho, .somo-monfli's ,a'gb£ had drawn 1 attention to the fact that .speculative; buyers .in,theDominioii:';jvere .in the 'habit',,of.-' putting iriferid'r,; wools in the' centre of the . bales, and : then- marking the bales with; the. bi'ahd. of - some well-known , clip, read letters from'.' Messrs. Charles Balme and' : Co. and Dalgety and Co., London 1 , ivhich had been received byMr; James Stuckey./..The contents of the ./letters woro to the effect that such'practices were : ridt. kiiown to them. As • against' thisrvMr.'jSykes 'rea'd a; letter .from' .a wootelasser in tlie Dominion who had: packed three hundred bales in; tho man-.*: under/ instructions from ' a I buyer,'and had branded .'2OO bales Wl^^•''two;. : VOT^'^w«^t^tno^•.•hran&^; After hearing Mr, Sykcs the meet.ing ; decided - to, support ! the'■( Executive, in a" 'request -that; legislation-: be .introduced :.to, •secure' the registration ,: of wool-brands. ; ' . :'v Tlie ; meeting also discussed tho ques-. tion : of a rating system, and; decided to ; recommend the Executive to appoint a committee ,of experts to formulate.: a system of rating, this system to be submitted to the, various branches. . . .