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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 336, 11 February 1911, Page 5

Some of the American wool buyers who have been operating in New Zaland this season left by the Aorangi on Saturday. Three of the buyers interviewed by a "Star" representative were agreed definitely on the one point: that growers had failed to put the wool up properly. They complained that the same thing prevailed ail over tho Dominion. One of the buyers stated that bales of good wool were spoilt by having put amongst it cots, sappy and "tender" fleeces. He advised "that in the packing the weak staple, the cots, the skirtings and "tender" should be kept apart. One explanation of the mixed wools in the south was that the large estates were being cut up, and the "small fellow don't breed, but buy sheep everywhere and get a mixed bunch." That and the weather was something that they, as buyers, could not help. However, it was most disappointing to go round and find only mixed lots. There was some beautiful stuff in the bales, but just enough of the "other a tuff" to put the American huyer off it, and it had to be bought at a price low enough to allow it to be re-handled and the poor stuff taken out. He thought the grower might just as well have the difference which he would get if the wool was not mixed.