WOOL CHARGES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9788, 11 October 1917, Page 4

WOOL CHARGES

by WOOL'BROKERS’ ASSOCIATION. QUESTION AND ANSWER IN PARLIAMENT. Mr J. Vigor Brown, M.P. for Napier, asked the Prime Minister soma days ago “Whether he can explain how it is that the Wool-brokers’ Association charge something like 16s per bale for receiving, weighing, and. opening out for display, and sewing up again, wool that has been purchased by the British Government, when the Wellington Harbour Board used to do nearly the whole of the same work and store the wool free for six weeks for 2s 9d per bale?” In a printed reply circulated in Parliament yesterday. Sir Massey, stated, “The services referred to as being carried out .the Wellington Harbour Board in Connection with the wool forming a portion of the Imperial Government’s requisition Is only a atnau portion of the work required of the wool-brokers under the conditions of their employment. The additional work undertaken by wool-brokers on behalf of the Government includes the following; Cataloguing of the wool preparatory to valuation, the classification and valuation of the wool .in accordance with the scheme, the shipment of the wool and the furnishing of shipping documents, specifications, invoices, and summaries to the Department of Imperial Government Supplies on behalf of the Imperial Government ” A QUESTION OF REBRANDING. Asked by Mr G. Hunter, M.P. for Waipawa, “Whether it is their imtention to charge the wool-grower with the cost of rebranding in cases where wool has been railed and shipped and not branded in accordance with the regulations since issued by the Controller, Mr Triggs,” the Prime Minister said. “It is not intended that the wool-growers ‘should be charged with the ocst of rebranding in those cases in which the wool has been sent forward prior to the receipt of the recent notification.