Wool Branding.

Patea Mail, 26 October 1881, Page 4

Wool Branding.

Now that the wool season is approaching, it may not be out of place to urge upon farmers and those interested ,in wool-growing the necessity which exists for using some special mark or brand in preparing their wool for shipment to London. It frequently happens that owners of small parcels adopt the practice of branding their wool bales with the “initial letters of their names, in addition to numbering them consecutively. Thus mistakes may and sometimes do occur through the same ship carrying wool bearing the same initial letters and numbers. The danger lies in the ship delivering to the holder of bill of lading, bales corresponding in marks and numbers with those specified on that document, and yet not the actual wool for which the bill of lading was given.

‘The utter impossibility of London agents detecting such mistakes will be obvious to any one who is sufficiently interested to give the niatter a thought. We cannot too strongly impress npon all wool-growers the advisableness of branding bales with the names of their farms, in addition to the initial letters of owners’ names, thus reducing to a minimum the possibility of mistake.