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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 745, 20 December 1869, Page 2

Me Helmuth Sciiwartze, of London woolhroker, has received the following complaint from an eminent French manufacturer : —" In sorting our New Zealand wools, we are obliged to take out all covered with marking tar, m order to have the end of the staple cut oif. This is an expensive operation, and as it moreover causes great waste, it makes the washed wool stand in much dearer than would otherwise be the case. The evil is stiil more Berious when gome of these tar-top-ped staples escape the attention of our sorters, which —by reason of their really extraordinary quantity —is only too often the case. The tar will not dissolve in hot water, and in passing through the machinery it breaks the delicate points of cards and combs, from whence it can only with difficulty be extracted. Portions of it remain in the combed wool and in the nails; the former in conquence making a bad yarn, and the latter being almost unsaleable, at even very low pijces. All this loss and inconvenience might be avoided if growers would use a soluble t-übstauce for marking their sheep. In Europe rod ochre is generally employed; it serves iU. purpose perfectly, and has none of thej above-mentioned annoying drawbacks." ,