THIS WAS NOT PASSED TO THE CORPORATION

Press, 2 September 1977, Page 14

THIS WAS NOT PASSED TO THE CORPORATION

Exporters are fair game. They are frequentlv criticised for their lack of enterprise and ingenuity. But they are not there for fun or else most probably they would not be still in business. A story of a good piece of enterprise with a New Zealand product was revealed last week. It concerned five bales of Romney wool bought out of the offering in the Timaru tvool sale held on Tuesday of last week. It did not go into the Wool Marketing Corporation's stockpile. It. was bought

by Hartwool (N.Z.) Ltd, to fulfill an arrangement made by the Boston office of their organisation. By now it is in a mill “somewhere in the middle of the United States.’’ The morning after the sale it was scoured by Fairlie Woolscour and rushed to Christchurch by motor-truck and flown to Auckland, where on Friday it was airborne again on its way to Los Angeles. The 700 kilogram consignment was bound for a sizeable carpet yam

spinning and carpet manufacturing organisation that had not previously used wool. It was a new client prepared to try wool, but of course wanting it immediately because it had orders on hand in which it could try the natural product. With an eye hopefully on the future, Hartwool agreed to rush the wool to the United States and incidentally to stand the freight cost — a tidy $lOOO. Woolgrowers will certainly hope that such enterprise is rewarded.