WOOL VALUERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 23 November 1939, Page 4

WOOL VALUERS

EIGHT ARRIVE TO-DAY

GISBORNE APPRAISEMENT

FINAL RUSH IN STORES

VISIT TO THE COAST

Advice lias been received by the Gisborne Wool Brokers’ Association that eight valuers will carry out. the appraisement of the Gisborne wool clip, commencing to-morrow. They are to arrive at Gisborne this afternoon.

No news was available in Gisborne this morning as to when the appraisements at Tokomaru Bay and Tolaga Bay would take place, but it was expected that these centres would be visited by the valuers after the work in Gisborne had been completed and that the actual times would be arranged when the appraisers arrived in Gisborne.

Brokers point out that when the work of appraisement commences in the stores, the valuers will wish to carry out their task without interruption and that the display stores will be closed for the time being for other purposes. To-day and this evening tiie iinal arrangements will be made by brokers for the display of the clips in the various stores. Arrangements for the valuation were well forward this morning, out much work had yet to be done to put the final touches to the efforts. The augmented staffs have been working at high pressure during the past l'ew weeks, and the steady arrival of wool from the country during what is now the height of the shearing season has kept the staffs very busy.

Shearing has been assisted during the past week by the spell of fine weather, and while there is room enough in Gisborne storage sheds for all the wool offering the intervention of rain for a few days would greatly ease the pressure of work in the stores.

Little of the wool had been opened up in Gisborne stores up to this morning, but what had been inspected suggested that the clip should be a fair average one, the fleece being in good order and reasonably bright.