WOOL PURCHASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1939, Page 3

WOOL PURCHASE

CONDITIONS GOVERNING SALE TO GOVERNMENT SCALE OF PRICES PRESCRIBED. ADVISORY COMMITTEE SET UP. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Conditions governing the preparation of wool and its sale to the New Zealand Government for resale to the United Kingdom and other purchasers are prescribed in regulations published in the Gazette issued last evening. The schedule of prices to 'oe paid is also given. Payment for wool will be made by the Government 14 days after appraisement. Ninety-five per cent of the appraisement value will be paid on prompt date.

The regulations implement the Or-der-in-Council issued last month extending the powers of the Marketing Department to purchase New Zealand products to wool, sheepskins, hides and pelts. A wool advisory committee is to be appointed for the purpose of advising the Minister of Marketing. The personnel of this committee is announced in a notice in another section of the Gazette. It is as follows:— The Controller of Primary Industries, Mr A. H. Cockayne (chairman), Mr A. Smith, woolbuyer, Christchurch; Sir Alexander Roberts, merchant, Wellington; Mr D. A. Ewen, merchant, Wellington; the Director of the Export Division of the Marketing Department Mr G. A. Duncan; and the chairman of the New Zealand Wool Council, Mr H. M. Christie.

The charges from time of delivery at the store door will be borne by the Government, except that in the case of appraisement in Tokomaru Bay, Tolaga Bay, Nelson, Blenheim, and Oamaru, which are not regular appraisement points, the additional cost will be charged against the owner. There is provision for appeal against appraisement, the appeal fee being fixed at 2s Gd a bale, with a minimum fee of £2. In addition, the broker may charge the owner reasonable costs for preparing the wool for re-appraise-ment. The decision of the deputy-con-trolling appraiser or of the controlling appraiser will be final. Appraisement will be made in accordance with the following scale of values: — Super Average to to average, inferior, d. d. d. d.

Values will be assigned in accordance with the scale of values but subject to variations on account of yield, handle, tenderness, manner of skirting. amount of seed-content, and all other factors affecting the appearance or condition of the wool. Exemptions from the wool emergency regulations, which prohibit the sale or mortgaging of wool or sheepskins except with the consent of the Minister, are prescribed in othei’ regulations.

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