SAILERS FOR WOOL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1820, 5 August 1913, Page 8

SAILERS FOR WOOL.

A SHIPPING MANAGER'S. OPINION. Last week a' -London cablegram stated that the' Bradford Chamber of Commerce had passad'a.''resolution urging tho shij> piug companies to build more sailing vessels to carry Australasian wcc!. This -resolution, it'.Was said, wis passed with the, idea of distributing the clips over a longer period. At present the- trade is diK>rftanused because of .the quick arrival' of, steamers,.aiid-the refusal of the railway to be watghonsemcn. V. , In conneoti-on ■■•lrith tho foregoing; >i»southern exchange'states that AfavAV. A. Jiennett, acting general -. manager of the New Zealand Shipping; Company, criticised the proposal as a backward'move. It was, 'he said, like going back to horso trams and rush lights:-' A sailer, had not been built ill tho British Isles for .years, and British companies that owned sailers were getting rid of them- fx) foreign ;traders. Towards the end of-t'ho sailing!,vessel days, about twelve or.Tiifteen years .ago, the New Zealand Shipping Company found' that it was almost; impossible to obtain cargo for them on account yof the* high rates of insurance, they involved.. Exporters, would have to",j»ay. t 'tlio. same high rates now. Tho wool-grower, wished. -to got his wool'to tho;IIoino markets ns soon as possible, and apart from the insurance ■rates, he would not. tolerate the delay. The 1159 of sailers 'might benefit' tho Importers" at but it .womld.be o decided disadvantage to growers in Now Zealand. •