WOOL SALES.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 50, 23 February 1912, Page 12

WOOL SALES.

"A raised and crowded platform in a room thick with tho fumes of tobacco; men iir their shirt sleeves, busy writing, others with their eyes fixed on the occupier of a still higher platfoim. A number is called out, and the senile changes from an orderly and quiet Bothering to a pandemonium of bewildering sounds, Tho sounds coase Midclenly. and then another number is

called. There is a frantic uproar, and raucous voices bellow forth, each striving to attract more attention that its neighbour, to attract first tho attention of the man on whom their eyes are fixed. Arms aro waved frantically, the hoarse roar of the voices grows greater, and then suddenly dies away." Reads like an extract from "Frenzied Finance," or "Wall Street in a Whirl," or "The Burst of the Brokers' Bubble," or some similar story of sensational stock jobbery, but is merely a comment on the annual wool sales by the "Lyttelton Times."