A GLUT OF WOOL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 302, 18 December 1912, Page 8

A GLUT OF WOOL.

WELLINGTON WHARVES OVERLOADED. (By Telegrapn.—Own Correspondent.) 1 WELLINGTON, this day. ' I So great is tuie congestion of wool in s J WeJlingito-n that <tbe Raihvay Deipart.- ---) j ment hae had to be asked to stop de- : j livering further consignments until some 51 of .{j'ue b:£ feheds have a liitJe room to i I spare. N-o fewer than 1:5.900 bales have ! I been dumped in the Harbour Boards ■ i sheds during trhe past fortnight, and - ! over 300 truckloada have come in this ; . week, but the rail-way will now eaee off ) altogether. There are 20,000 balfs in - store for shipment and for the January ' : gales. In the opinion of t-he wharfinger I t-here :e £250,000 wor.t-h of wool ready *' in one sled alone. The i 3 . J very heavy, men working day and nigiht.

The -wool is still accumulating, and complaints are being made about failure to promptly ihandle the unusual supply. "It is not lair to 'blame tJie Board for the position 'tha-t has arisen, -, said th& chairman (Mr R. Fletcher), -"nic wool is here, it has come down Tight on t>he top of u-5, but the ships are not here to lift it. Inetnad of the eteamere being here .receiving the -B'-001, .they are tripping round to every little port for lrt-t-le lots of cargo, and then come here to WeMuigton to top up. The shipping companies are. solely to blame: the ships should be here to relieve i'his pressure. There would Ihen not be haif the wool here to-day that we. now have."