The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, January 16, 1909. GOOD WOOD WANTED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 449, 16 January 1909, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, January 16, 1909. GOOD WOOD WANTED.

“ We want good wool and we are willing to pay good prices, but we cannot get the quality of the fleece that we require,” declared one for the buyers at the recent Auckland wool sales in the course of an interview with an Auckland pressman. “Any falling off that there has been in the values here is not because of an actual drop in the price of wool. We are out of good lots and we are paying good prices when we can get them, but the difficulty is to do so. Take a walk through any of the wool stores, and just have a look at the wool. It is got up anyhow in the majority of cases; unskirted, shabby fleeces are baled indiscriminately with the better samples, and it is difficult to get properly classed lots. If the prices received for well-prepared lots are turned up it will be found that there is no drop in prices here. For instance,” —and he turned up his catalogue—“ here you will find the one grower receiving for his half-bred fleeces, for his crossbred fleeces, 1 1 /zd for his lambs, and s}4d for the locks. That man will be satisfied he got his wool up well, and it paid him to do so. Other growers go to some trouble and up to rod was bid for their wool. We want good lots and we are willing to pay 'good prices, but the real reason of the apparent decrease in to-day’s values is that the wool was so badly prepared that we were not willing to enter into keen competition.”