GOOD WOOL WANTED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3093, 15 January 1909, Page 4

GOOD WOOL WANTED.

"We want good wool and we are willing to pay good prices, but we cannot get the quality of the fleece that we require," declared one of the buyers at the recent Auckland wool sales in the course of an interview with an Auckland pressman. "Any falling off that there has been in the values here is not because of an actual drop in the price of wool. We are out for good lots and we are paying good prices when «e can get them, but the difficulty is to do sn. Take a walk through any of the wool utores and just have a look at the wool. It is got up anyhow in the majority ot cases; unskirted, shabby fleeces are baled indiscriminately with the better samples, and it is difficult to get properly classed lots. If the prices, received tor well-pre-pared lots are turned up it will be found that there, is no drop in prices here. For instance" —and he turned up his catalogue—"here you will find the one grower receiving 9Jd for his halfbred fleeces, 9id for his crossbred fleeces, 7£d for his lamhs, and 3£d for the locks. That man will oe satisfied he got his wool up well, and it paid him to do so. Other growers go to some trouble and up to lOd was bid fo their wool. We want good lots and we are willing to pay good prices, but the real reason of the apparent decrease in co-day's values is that the wool was so badly prepared that we were not willing to enter into keen competition."