NEW WOOL SEASON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 274, 18 November 1936, Page 5

NEW WOOL SEASON.

AUCKLAND TO LEAD OFF.

FIRST SALE SATURDAY WEEK. The news, of the sharp advance in the price of crossbred wool will be particularly welcome to New Zealand farmers whose selling season commences at the end of the present month. As is customary, Auckland leads off, the fixture being dated for Saturday, November 2S, with an allocation of 20,000 bales. Under normal circumstances this limit would probably be exceeded, despite the small carry-over from last season. Flocks have come well out or the past winter with the flcecc in first-class condition, and, with favourable market prospects, most farmers would welcome the first chance to market their wool. Unfortunately broken weather interfered with shearing operations, and this has thrown deliveries to so late a stage that the local merchants will experience the utmost difficulty in classing the clip and getting it ready for presentation to the buyers who will arrive in Auckland in a week's time. Labour Troubles. The problem of dealing with the early portion of the provinces wool clip under these rush conditions has tieen aggravated by the fact that the wool store employees are declining to work on Saturday. This is in sharp contrast to old-time conditions, when all hands from the managers down, used to'workall hours, day and night, week days and Sundays, in a feverish endeavour to get in every bale that was possible for a big wool sale. Limit Objected To. Tho Auckland brokers have protested to the Wool Committee against the allocation being cut down from 25,000 to 20,000 bales. The latter limit, under favourable conditions, might have easily been exceeded, and the larger quantity is little enough to provide a marketable guide for a new Dominion wool season. The allocation for Napier, which sells the following week, is 28,000 bales.