WOOL TRANSPORT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 62, 14 March 1944, Page 4

WOOL TRANSPORT

REGULATING INTAKE

CO-OPERATION OF RAILWAYS

Emphasising that any delay in the arrival of wool into store at Auckland was not due to the railway restrictions, Mr. H. Duke, chairman of the Auckland Woolbrokers' Association, made an explanation of the wool transport position in an interview to-day.

"As in the previous season, it was found necessary this season to control the intake of wool in order to avoid excessive congestion at the stores," said Mr. Duke. "The Woolbrokers' Association asked the Railways Department to co-operate in regulating the handling of supplies from farm to store. That wool has not come forward earlier is not due to any shortage of trucks. The Railways Department has been working entirely on advice received from the brokers as to the number of trucks needed each day."

Mr. Duke pointed out that the next and final appraisal this season was now scheduled to start on April 27, and growers were urged to get into touch with their local stationmaster so that from now on wool could come forward on the regulated basis for that appraisement.

It was interesting to note, he added, that to the end of February this year the amount of wool brought forward and appraised by brokers was considerably greater than at the corresponding period last year. Moreover, the date of the final appraisal this season was April 27, whereas last year it was May 18.