BRADFORD WOOL COMBINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1926, Page 4

BRADFORD WOOL COMBINGS.

CHARGES REDUCED. Writing on November 26 a Bradford correspondent says: Two big events have transpired this week, namely, the reducing of the tariff for combing, and the opening of the London sales. Everybody rejoiced last Monday that the Commission Woolcombere' Federation had decided to fall into line with the fre' quently expressed wishes of the trade, by reducing combing charges. The big firms who all last year sent heavyweights of matchings to Germany for combing wool and selling the tops there, can no longer urge the seriously higher charges for combing in Bradford compared wifth the Continent. The reducton of id' for all qualities of wool down to 56's is a considerable concession, while on 50's and below it is jjd, and for preparing wools id. Two other important concessions have been made—the abolition of all extra charge for dry combing, and also the aboliton of the id extra on the combing of Cape wools. The latter was long overdue, because a large proporti6n of the South African clip-is to-day equal in length, style, character and clean yield to the average Australian merino. The trade, therefore, has every reason for feeling pleased that combing charges have been brought more into lino with the present needs. Some, of course, contend that the reduction might have been still more, but when all is eaid and done the reduction is considerable.