STACKED-UP SHEDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 10

STACKED-UP SHEDS.

ON WATERFRONT. COPING WITH SEASON'S CLIP. An unusual sight was witnessed on Customhouse Quny Inst eveniiiK, when members of the Harbour Hoard stuff were engaged in unloading wool from a 'rnlco of GO trucks facing the city. It is a long time since this kind uf tiling has happened, and the reason was that tho Harbour Board is receiving so much wool from the country thai; difficulty has boon experienced in stonnj; it. Hence tho presence of tho trucks. A reporter visited tho wool stores on tho wharves last evening, and found work going on at high' pressure, There worn bales of wool everywhere, and clumps were stacked on top of each other to great heights in the various sheds. Jlr. It. Fletcher, chairman of tho b-oard and the wharfinger (Mr. A. V. Halo-Moiiro) wore about the sheds keeping an eyo oil things.

In answer to a question as to "how things wero going," Air. Fletcher replied with n, wave of the hand: "Wo aro doing our host to copo with tho exceptional influx of bnlcs ot wool front tho country. Tho whole troublo is that wo cannot got tho wool nway. In conscquenco wohavo had to uso all tho available spaco wo can and that is tho reason of that wool in tho trucks out thero (pointing ■to Waterloo Quav). Wo aro putting that wool info "P Bhcd, and wo have another CO trucks on the lung's Wharf and approaches. Wc aro endeavouring to Iceop faith with people, and for that reason wo aro receiving tho wool in this manner. By to-morrow morning (Saturday) wo hopo to have all those trucks emptied and tho wool in our sheds. "Tho whole troublo is tjjat the Harbour -Board lias received the loose wool and has not received any orders concerning it from the brokers and such like persons," Mr. I'letcher continued. "So we do not know what to do witK it. _ If theso people would only send instructions how the wool is to be dealt with at the timo of its receipt (or before for that matter) the work would go on more expeditiously. There is n by-law dealing with this matter, which states that orders for dealing with wool (by delivery or shipment) shall lie given within four working hours aiter ' its receipt by the board. If, through the absence of sucn orders, it becomes necessary, in the opinion of tho wharfinger, to stack such looso'wool, or any portion thereof, in order to keep clear the floor space of the stores, a charge of twopence per bale shall be made to tho consignees on all wool so ~ stacked. In lonsequence of what I have stated, I have issued instructions that that by-law roust be rigidly enforced. Perhaps that might liavo the desired effect, an"d we might get our orders more promptly in future."