THE WOOL TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 161, 7 January 1914, Page 5

THE WOOL TRADE.

A JAPANESE KNQI'Ii.V. .> J\y Telegraph. —lh-ess Association. Wellington, Last Night. An jntoestcil «(>f<'t;il or at to-mor-row's wool sale iti Wellington will lie MV T. Takahashi, vvlui represents the Government woollen mills ;it Tokio, Japan. Mr Takahashi is visit in;? Ne.w Zealand with * view to famishing reports to the Japanese d'overnnient on the <j tin lily of our wool, and also as to the methods of s.-sle atUvotal kf-re. lie vpsitod the wooWieis to-day and closely examined the various samples displayed there iu preparation for to-morrow'* sale.

To x .pressman, .Mr Takahashi stated that fill material for the uniform* of the Japanese army are manufactured at the Covenmient mills at 'tfokio, which crmstanl.lv omplov about l.'ifHt hands. Mr Takahask'i attended the wool sales p.t Napier" and after watching operations at. to-morrow's sale in Wellinston he will proceed South. Thence, he joes on to Tasmania, Melbourne and Sidney. It is probable that he will again visit Australia and New Zealand dnrints the next wool season. He was Hiu-blo to say whether Japan would »e a regular customer for New Zealand -wool. Tiiat would depend on the decision <J the Japanese authorities after consider]"." | the reports, which he will furnish, on the quality of New KfaUnd and Australian wools, and ou the conditions of gale and the cost of shipping, etc.