WOOL CLASSING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 73, 22 April 1909, Page 3

WOOL CLASSING

SUGGESTED HOI.LiNCtOF tt-sl'tttC TIOX CLASSES. By Tclea'apli.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. An idea of importance to the Dominion was spoken of at a meeting of tin- Auckland Education Board to-day. ' Mr. George suggested the holding of i-hisses for three weeks ill winter lor instructing in wool picking and classing. He understood that fanners had «one down heavily this vear owing to bad classing of their wool, dirt and all sorts of things having got in. Olr. Melvenzie said that for the last two years he had bad a difficulty in dealing with his wool. Some people, who did not class their wool at all and took no pains to arrange it, did just as •well as those who did. He went to a lot of trouble last year and got his wool put in first-class order. He got fivepenee for it in Loudon. This year he took no trouble at all, and put in anvtliing and everything, and got sevenpenci- for it here. That was on the advice of others who hud done likewise. Then they were told that the American buyers wpuld buy nothing but clean wool. If the people here were taught to put their clean wool in one lot and keep it separate from other wool, the buyers from other countries would know what they were doing aad competition would "be fair. If there were Government graders thch-e who took the trouble to classify their wool they would get the benefit of it, and classified wool would bring the best price. There was no country in the world which could .produce better wool than New Zealand. Mr. G. J. Garland said that one year he classed his wool and received one penny less than if he had only taken the ordinary precautions and put in the wool straight off the sheep's back. Jlr. C. J. Parr (ciairman of the Board) explained that the idea was that at the ■winter show in Auckland they should have a man giving instructions to farmers and their sons. He moved in approval of Mr. George having brought the matter up, and requesting him to re!'°Tlie motion was carried unanimously.