SHEARING AFTER RAIN.
WOOL BUYERS' COMPLAINTS.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NAPIER, Wednesday.
The fact that some woolgrowers are reported to be shearing this week within a few days of heavy rains has caused some comment locally. Wet shorn wool naturally is heavier than when dry, and it. is stated authoritatively that buyers in the past have suffered considerable losses through sheep being shorn when the wool was wet. One buyer is said to have lost £800 in one purchase. In consequence of complaints irora buyers growers whose wool shows a loss of weight will have to meet debit notes from the brokers. ' It is also stated that some of last season's clips when opened in England and the Continent were found to be falsely packed by rougher wools being put in the centre of bales. This .is another. matter concerning which buyers are said to be determined to protect themselves.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 258, 31 October 1929, Page 8
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