A NEW WOOL STORE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 51, 23 November 1917, Page 8

A NEW WOOL STORE

, W.F.C.A. ENTERPRISE. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-opera-tivo Association aro at present taking over their new wool store on Thorndon Quay. The building is not vet quite out of the hands of tho builders, but tho interior is finished, so that it is possible for wool to be received into it, and thero stacked or displayed. Last season was tho first in which tho association entered the wool trade, and for their first season had to make- shift with tho smaller store on their property near tho Thorndon station. It served well enough for one year, but the association, seeing that they had a good prospect of pioling up a bigger business in wool, decided to build_ an up-to-date store on tho site adjoining. The now store is a structure of three stories, with a frontage of 66ft. and a depth of 100 ft. The top floor has roof lighting, which is usual in wool stores, and it is intended that this floor shall be iised solely for the display of.wool for the valuers, or for inspection by tho buyers after the Government requisition scheme is no longer in operation. On this floor it will bo possible to show two thousand bales under pcifect' conditions. Tho store is well ventilated, and the light is strong and clear, and yet perfectly diffused. Tho second floor is not primarily intended for the display of wool for sale, but the .window lighting is so good that it will he quite possible to use this floor for this purpose. Indeed this section of tlie store is just as well lighted as some stores with roof lighting. On the ground floor tho arrangements lor tho quick and easy handling of wool are complete. There are two roomy cart docks, from which it will be possible .either to trunk the wool off the wagons into-the store, or to lift the bales by means of hois.ts to any. part of tho building. The hoists are already in position taking wool to the top floor, where it is being prepared tor valuation. A new feature in the store is a perpendicular chute for the rapid removal of bales from a- higher floor to. a lower. This is a great improvement on the old-fashioned _ chutes, which sometimes did not deliver bales to their proper destination. By resorting to what is known as ''block" stacking it will be possible without much difficulty to store in tho building five thousand bales. Tho old store which was used for wool last year, and to some extent this year will be used in future mostly for skins and hides, and the roof of this building, accessible as it is from the first floor of the new store, will serve as an excellent drying place for s,kins.