FACILITIES FOR WOOL SALENS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1017, 5 January 1911, Page 8

FACILITIES FOR WOOL SALENS.

--WELLINGTOX'S STORING ACCOJIr MODATION. . ' ".The importance of the -'R-ellingtqn 'UVol Sales is fu'ch ■ that it 1 is desirable that all reasonable, facilities for the contlucting cf the business should bo provided. For. some - time inconvenience has been caused the--jrool to be stored in amnnber-of.different places.On the*, occasion' "of - this week's v.-col sale a Dominiox representative inquired into the.position to te-3 it', onv advancement: had been made. A broker, vtytMvas interviewed,. said that there had been practically enough accommodation for the wqol -,yhich had been.-.offered this season. ' .Wi%thc largo, and bxpensive,-'warehouses mnied by the brokers," he said, "in acU dition to tho facilities given by the Harbour Board, the .quantities' which have .come forward licve'bcen fairly- well handled.'' Some of;th"e' t brpk'crs"havo had to- resort* to.- using storage"ffom other merchants. "There is . every reason to expect that the Harbour Board, realising the advantage to the-port of drawing-to it as piuch wool as possible,'will .provide adequate labilities-. . Tho. brokers are' hoping that- the' new buildiiig 'being.crectcd -by the . Harbour Board on "Waterloo Quav will be completed before next season's wool sales. The brokers hope to get the' use' of at. least the top flat of the new store, which would provide splendid accommodation." A buyer of some years' experience of. Wellington arid other.New Zealand wrol sales was also interviewed on the subject. -"Wo are pleased," he said, "to see that tho brokers "are doing their best, but we hppe they wi\l do still more to provide'"facilities for", the buyers. Conditions have improved even in the' last couple of yaaits, but they tire- GtillmucJi behind Australia. There are -too : many disadvantages which the buyer has "to contend with, under the present system:- .The wool, is'stored here, there, and everywhere,"-instead of -' all . being 'under the one-roof. . . -'':. ■ "Net" ill any year's ago; theiyycol' used, to 1h ' stacked' four . bales. Aighv'- Tliat was a dangerous way of doing things; a nian . puiliiig wool out of a- bottom bale was liable to have the "upper /or.f-s fall on him. In fact, an accident did occur, and tho result was serious and costly. Now the wool is two bales high, but it would be. better still if oily one bale high, as :in Australia. However, we ;cannot expect tij'find- quite so much convenience provided for us here as: in Australia, as the quantity of wool disposed of there is M much greater, and, therefore, thero is more room for the expansion of the brokers' wcol business. I must repeat that we are pleased with what the Wellington brokers' have done for us, and, lik-o' the brokers and the producers, w'o' are hoping for a still further improvement when the. Harbour Board's new storb is ready for use."