RAIN-WETTED WOOL
SHEARING IN NAPIER AFTER STORMS BUYERS MAKE COMPLAINTS Press Association NAPIER, Wednesday. The fact that some woolgrowers are reported to be shearing this week within a few days of heavy rains has caused some comment locally. Wet shorn wool naturally is heavier than when dry, and it is stated authoritatively that buyers in the past have suffered considerable losses through sheep being* shorn when the wool was wet. One buyer is said to have lost £BOO in one purchase. In consequence of complaints from buyers growers whose wool shows a loss of weight will have to meet debit notes from the brokers. It is also stated that some of last season’s clips when opened in England and the Continent were found to be falsely packed by rougher wools being put in the centre of bales. This is another matter concerning which buyers are said to be determined to protect themselves.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 10
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