PRODUCE SALES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12641, 31 October 1905, Page 4

PRODUCE SALES.

Tna commercial growth of this districlM is evidenced ,'n many ways, and among I the more recent indications of our ex-1 lending trade is the dnstiiution of local! auction sales for wool, skins, hides, etc.! Hitherto there 'has not existed any sat-l isfactory medium by which farmers oouldfl realise to the best advantage on these! lines, which are,' virtually, side lineal in their business. These sales, fcoweverjH will serve to bring consumer and pro-fl ducer together, and will thereby facili-l tate the ir-cre systematic marketing ofl these things. We think it may fairly befl assumed -that the absence of a recog-H nised market has, in the pasfr, resulted! in considerable loss to the settlers ofl this district. The lack of oompetitionfl duo to a limited market, has, as is in-fl variably the case, led to a certain! amount of carelessness on the part olfl vendors in the preparation of such goodjfl for sale, and the natural result has bevrfl lower prices than would otherwise havefl been obtained. The loss to the comfl m unity, when spread over the whol<fl Colony under this head, runs into manjfl thousands of pounds. Then again, iifl is to the advantage of farmers'to jge^| quit of their oddmont- of wool and lilufl produce as it woro on the spot, saviii^B freight and other charges, wh:oh wmkH result if sent elsewhere for dispoea'fl Settlers are also assured that they catfl get full market value for i^jr produ^vfl as buyers are. attracted from outaijfefl arid compete with local feli-mongeVfl and scourers. But there is also ai^fl educational aspect of the subject .thatfl settlers, if they are observant, slioiih^H take a lively interest in, and tbat'is^H the difference of value as between varil| ous lots of skins, wool and hides aceordfl ing to the manner, good, bad or indif^| ferent, that such produce us got iip fo^| the market;. and this is worth moft^| than passing notice. So far two sale^f 'have been held, under tl»c oombine^H auspices of Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd.^H and Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co. Tha^fl the settlers appreciate the enterprise^! ■was abundantly evidenced by tlie large^B ly increased entries at the second salejfl which was held on the 18th inst. view of tho interest which will, we feo^| sure, continue to attach to these sales^| wo publish dn another column some in^| structive suggestions as to tho bps^J means of preparing these products foi^fl