THE WOOL SEASON.
DUMPING OPERATIONS AT DUNEDIN. fßr IELEGKAPH — SPECIAL TO TILE POST.] DUNEDIN, This Day. Gr-eat activity :s: s being displayed just now at the wool dumping sheds at Port Chalmers. The two wool presses at the Shaw-Savill shed started last Monday afternoon. Practically no overtime has been worked yet. Seven thousand bales of wool have been unloaded from xhe railway trucks, and dumped and stacked in the shed. One thousand bales haye 1 since oeen loaded up again on the trucks ready for putting on board ship. The average rate of dumping has been from 120 to 140 bales per fiour, which is twice the quantity dumped per hour ten years ago. The lloseric takes 2000 bales from this store, and the Matatua, which comas here about the end of this wzek, will take a larger quantity. The wool seaeon means a- season of bard work for those engaged in sending the wool out of the country.'
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 25, 31 January 1911, Page 3
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159THE WOOL SEASON. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 25, 31 January 1911, Page 3
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