WOOL PACKING SWINDLES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 240, 4 February 1888, Page 8

WOOL PACKING SWINDLES.

According to Captain Colbeck, recently returned from a trip to England, Auckland wool has earned an unenviable notoriety in the London market, as containing, wrapped up with the fleece, manure and a variety of other foreign substances which do not enter into the manufacture of woollen good?, Auckland woolgrowers need not pride themselves on a monopoly in this line of business, for an American manufacturer gives fchis description of a package of wool : N ' Put it on the table and it is a beautiful fleece to behold — light, puffy and free. The string comes off freely. To open it from the centre to either end is but to touch it with slight pressure — but 10, what is hero ? A handful of short hard tags cut Jp.st fafl ; another handful of clippings cut ihis spring ; another handful of sweet locks swept from the floor. Is that all? No ; here is another bunch of wool, of another colour, a different staple ; it smells different ; it must be— yes, it is part of a ram's fleece." These words were used in an address to woolgrowers, and the speaker told them the truth, thai when they put up wool in that way, they did it at a loss. He was speaking in Western New York, and he said : " Western New York wool is nesriected in the seaboard markets because the buyer know* that he will pay for what is not wool. The tags you cut in the fall are hardly worth saving. All the wool there is in the fribs and stuff that is swept from the floor in a day's shearing will hardly weigh two pounds, and the trifle of jhfool that attaches the excrescences at the spring trimming had far better be left out of the fleeces." There is money in this eort of talk to the woolgrower, if he will only govern himself accordingly.