ANOTHER WOOL SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 621, 25 March 1929, Page 11

ANOTHER WOOL SALE

WANTED BY BROKERS VIEWS OF ASSOCIATION An extra annual wool sale at Auckland is desired by the Auckland Wool Brokers' Association. Mr. E. M. Edgar, secretary to the association, made some remarks on the subject to THE SUN on Saturday. r INHERE is no sale at Auckland b- - 1 tween November and 'Ybrurry. said Mr. Edgar, when the main sales are held. The large amount of wool held in the local stores during that period justifies a sale in January. Owners of that w 00l ng for their returns, and some growers, rather than wait for the February sale seivl their clips elsewhere. Practically half the Au< . bulk stores here twice a season, on account of this “sale shortage.” Several branches ol the New Zealand Farmers’ Union are anxious to help us in our efforts to get another sale,” said Mr. Edgar. “We have been striving to get it for som.* time. The whole trouble is that we cannot get the wool buyers to agree to put it on their roster.” Mr. Edgar pointed out that it was really a difficult thing for th * buyers to arrange a roster that would suit all sale centres, and also suit themselves. Public holidays, train and boat arrangements. and other factors all entered into the drawing up of a roster. The buyers want to please everybody, but it is difficult. They are working to a roster that has been in use lor some time, and they do not seem inclined to try an improvement. “We are going to continue in our efforts,” added Mr. Edgar. “We want a sale in November, another in early January, and the third in late Febru-