THE GET UP OF WOOL CLIPS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3034, 3 November 1908, Page 6

THE GET UP OF WOOL CLIPS.

It ia generally supposed that wool classed in New Zealand wool sheds Lhas to undergo a process of sorting by the manufacturers in England before it can be utilised. Such, however, is not always the case, as a perufial of the following letter from Messrs Thomas and Cook, woolbrokers, London, will show. If wool can be so classed in New Zealand so as to avoid the extra expense of sorting in England, it is obviously of benefit that such should be done, as no doubt the producer at this end would reap the benefit of enhanced nrices. The recipient of the letter, in conversation with a Wairarapa Age representative, stated that though he had been many years connected with working among wool, that in the short time Mr F. H. 'lhomas was in the Branccpeth shed he received most valuable information from that gentleman as to new and up-to-date methods of getting up wool for the market, which he acted upon, and evidently with good results :

(Copy.) 17 Basinghall Street, London, E.C., Sept. 16th, 1908. Thomas and Cook, Woolbrokers. Mr Thomas Mackay, Post Office, Masterton, N.Z. Dear Mr Mackay.—l was very much pleased to have your letter, and still more pJeased to bp. able to tell you that the classing of Brancepeth was to my mind as near perfect as it is possible to get it. We wrote to Mr Beetham about the clip. Unfortunately it was shipped in a sailing vessel, which I should sav cannot have been in a good state of repair, and the consequence was that a large proportion of the clip was damaged. This of course nrnle the clip not look so we>l in the catalogue, as it made so many more lots. This doea not alter the fact that you had really classed the clip excellently. Several of the principal buyers remarked on the improvement in the classing, three or four oven goinir to the trouble of congratulating us on the decided improvement. One of the large buyers who bought several lots of the clip told us that the lots were so regular in quality that after looking carefully through several bales, he decided that it was not necessary to sort the wool, and he put the whole of the bales just as they were into the scouring plant, and combed them as if they had been sorted. You cannot possibly have anythipg better than this. We tender you our hearty congratulations on your work. —Yours truly, (Signed) THOMAS AND COOK, 11. F. THOMAS.