COLONIAL WOOL IN- LONDON DOCKS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2550, 26 August 1915, Page 6

COLONIAL WOOL IN- LONDON DOCKS

CHARGE OF NEGLECTFUL TREAT■MENT.. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec; August 25', -5.40 p.m.) London, August 24.Mr. Dunstan Vavasour, of North Canterbiirv (New Zealand), in an interview,said that ho saw at the Victoria • and Albert Docks £10,000 worth of Australian and New Zealand wool lying in the wet. some covered by tarDaulins. and much of it apparently rotting.. He suggests that, tho embargo on export should be removed, in order to prevent a glut. Tlie Port of London Authority states that only a few hundred bales wore stored in the open by the shipowners, in order to release the ships, mid resents the susEOstion of rotting. If any were wet. it would he due to the recent abnormal storm. Tho Board points out that it is now handling practically the wliolo of .the colonial tvoo1» instead of, as is usual, 30 per cent, of it,.nnd the .accommodation has been restricted by. the commandeering of large space. The Port authority spent £150,000 on new accommodation last year.