WOOL STORAGE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1732, 24 April 1913, Page 10

WOOL STORAGE.

NOT HAlfiiOUll HOARD'S CONCERN. While Mm wool from the country was coining in!) llio Wellington .Harbour Hoard's sheds by 111 o hundred hales in I lit" rush of Iho season, and causing eouV~liuii in llio sheds, 1110 question was raised in Iho Harbour Hoard us lo whether I lie. board ought to receive woolrailril into Wellington, not i'or immediate fliipniciit. The board members all agreed that tlio care of the wool on arrival in Wellington should bo Hie concern of Iho Kailway Department and nut. Iho Harbour HenrJ.

At I.lie meeting of llin board last night; Mr. M. Cohen asked whether anytlihig had been ibm: or was in contemplation with inspect to the receipt of wool from Hie country for loeal sales.

The chairman replied that the matter liad had a good deal of consideration from .Mr. Xicliolls. Mr. ll'archbanks, and himself, but tliey were not yet able to ninlta any (Infinite proposal to the hoard.' It was a matter Which would require the attention of. the new board. His own opinion li.nl always been that the board hart for many years dune work that really Moused' to the Kailway Department. There was no more reason why the Railway Department should not deliver wool from tho town of Wellington in the same way as thev handled any other Roods. It was n fact that the present arrangement saved tlio Railway Department a great deal of money, anil spared their shed accommodation. The Harbour Board received rates for handling tlio wool which only paid espouses. '