FINE WOOL EXHIBIT.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 1, 2 January 1924, Page 4

FINE WOOL EXHIBIT.

FOR EMPIRE EXHIBITION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The exhibit of the Dominion's wool to be shown in the New Zealand section of the Empire Exhibition is now ready for shipment. Four days were occupied in classing and packing th e 606 fleeces supplied by woolgrowers of almost every part of New Zealand. Every fleece has been ticketed and the name of tbe grower, the count of the wool, the breed of the sheep which produced it, and the weight of each fleece have been catalogued. The exhibit is to b<» shipped direct from Lyttelton on the 14th inst.

air. N. M. Orbell, chairman of the Canterbury district committee of the British Empire Exhibition said: "I am quite satisfied it is an especially good sample of New Zealand wool. Regarding the Romney marsh fleeces, the nonreceipt of which seemed likely to hold up the whole exhibit, they have come to hand and have been included in the exhibit. We were under a misapprehension that these fleeces were to be sent by the RomncyMnrsh Breeders' Association; they were forwarded by the individual glowers.

Mr. A. R. Merrington, who has been for live years headmaster of the Mercury Bay school, and who has been appointed headmaster of the Hikurangi school, was tendered a farewell social in the YVhitianga Public Hall by parents of the pupils and others who presented Ml', and Mrs. Merrington with a cheque as a token of the esteem in -which tliey were held. Mr. A. X. Wells, chairman of the Hospital Board, and Mr. YV". Lee, chariman of the school committee, spoke of the tine workrendered by Mr. Merrington, during the lattors star in the district, and also paid tribute to the *ine public spirit shown.