DELAY OVER WOOL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20950, 1 November 1939, Page 9

DELAY OVER WOOL

APPRAISEMENT DETAILS CASUAL WORKERS DISMISSED (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Wednesday Owing to the delay in completing appraisement details following the purchase of the New Zealand wpol clip by the British Government, classing and binning has ceased at the Parnell stores. This will result in the dismissal of between 50 and 60 casual workers, and it is expected that it will be about three weeks before employment is resumed. In a statement issued yesterday the Auckland Woolbrokers’ Association drew attention to the instructions given by the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. W. Nash, in his statement on Monday night, advising that wool not properly classed on delivery to the stores should not be reclassed or binned by brokers in the meantime.

Prior to this, in the absence of any instructions, Auckland wool brokers had commenced binning and classing on the basis of the practice in previous seasons, but in view of the Minister’s instruction, this work has ceased meanwhile. It is likely that congestion will occur in the wool stores as a result, and brokers request growers to hold their clips in their sheds until arrangements have been completed. NO LOSS OF TIME AUSTRALIAN APPRAISEMENT Wool appraisements are well in hand in Australia, and only a month elapsed between the purchase of the clip by the British Government and the submission of catalogues. Commenting on the position, Winchcombe, Carson and Company, Limited., woolbrokers, Sydney, state that no time has been lost in getting appraisements moving in all marketing centres of the Commonwealth. Over £2,500,000 worth of wool had been appraised in Sydney up to October 28, with relative activity in Brisbane, Victoria, South Australia.

PRICE NOT ADEQUATE

HILL COUNTRY PROBLEMS (Special to Times) TAUMARUNUI, Tuesday At a Yneeting of the executive of the Taumarunui branch of the Farmers’ Union the present, Mr N. J. B. Dougherty, said many farmers still did not realise that they should join the union. He contended that there was greater need for unity today than ever before. The following resolution passed by the Ohura sub-branch received the support of the meeting;—“That the suggested price of 12£d per lb for wool is altogether inadequate to cover the cost of production, especially in the King Country, where classification is generally lower than in many other parts of the Dominion.” It was resolved to send the following remit to the Auckland provincial executive:—“That the maintenance of hill country sheep farmmg is essential to the industry as a whole in normal times, but more particularly at present, owing to the need for increased production, and that the allocation of prices for the ! various grades of wool be made in such a way as to maintain the hill country farms in production and , give the hill country farmers a fair remuneration.”