WOOL PACKS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1018, 6 January 1911, Page 8

WOOL PACKS.

THE SUBJECT DISCUSSED. Tho question of wool packs.was a topic of -conversation here during the recent wool sales. Can any of tlie many wcol- . growers who this season went to so.mildi • trouble to place their wool in special paper-lined, blue-faced, and extra super-iin-e quality packs, claim to have ■ceived one iota" more''value per pound [or their wool than it would liavo brought had it been" put .away in, the saipe rough, cheap pack, and sown wi.th tho-same sort of twine as used-invariably a few years ago? says an Australian writer. „•-•■•.. r a , ns , we - r s-iysj may. lie. in the fact -;thao buyers do. hot ;bid in iotas, but ln farthings,; and that an extra farthing 1 per.-j-pcuiid would be",'-too to ooneede. -'-Would they givo-a sixteenth,' or j. tliirty-second, or anything at all -if it werj possible to. nail them to . it? Because, if so, all those who have pegged away oil the old lines—and they still form-a majority—would willingly como in under any new regulation that might b3..desircd. ; , ,The average. Scotchman would gladly -.spring another • half-crown a pack, and'make the buyer of . his wool- a present of ss. per bale, if he .could see any hope at all cf get-ting it back.. .; ■ "If growers could only sell their wool," he continues, "as it conies off the table, lull. of. bloom; and brilliant with lustre, there,, would, be. none of these bickerings, ''and' th*r-could '.then 'afford; to 3b..a.10t more than they can now! This is one way .of looking.-at.,the question-of ob..faining . full,--value, .-and. "another, is to allow- the mind,-to revert -twenty year?, and to. oonjpare. ihe Sflling-price, of a bale of 'wool to-day with 1 that 'of -two dei;adeb ago. So lorij as the main issues are . right,, why split: hairs over side effects ? . 4, drop .of 5 ner cent, jn . the market during the last fortnight, is more liurtfnl to, , the pocket than the extracost of coloured twine, high-grade packs, arid .specially., prepared , paper..,, ."Whilst on the last-named subject; it .is ; intereiting v io.,iioie. : .ahat..i : e.v£ral .Tas.niajiian haye ( -of i -vcry .brown paper with which -they lined .their,packs. ' It is.puvcha=iSl .in.rolls, and cut tn the desired lengths; but -the top. layer is.'.never stitched .up whcii sewing in the head. This paper crinkles .un under pressure, but dees, not fray, and-holds, much the Same', relationship.'.'towards the ..wool, cori-'tent.-that round a'pound of butter—never becomes part thereof."' ' ■ v'.J "Z