HULL AS A WOOL PORT.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1927, Page 12

HULL AS A WOOL PORT.

On geographical grounds, and for the reason that it has provided special facilities for the trade, Hull claims to be the most economical port of entry- for wool destined for. the great manufacturing district of Yorkshire, of which Bradford is the centre. As a matter of -fact, its wool imports are expanding every year. The London and North Eastern Railway, the port authority for Hull, has made special provision for this trade in new wool sheds alongside King George Dock, space being made for storage of 140,000 bales, and for tho adequate and well-lighted display of the staple. In addition it has a vast wool store, connected by rail with the dockside, situated at National avenue, in the City of Hull, and covering 11 acres. In a communication on the shipping of wool from Australia and New Zealand direct to Hull, Colonel H. S. Cole, recently in ,the Dominion, refers to the rebate of 6d per bale made on new season's wool from Australia to the United Kingdom via tho Cape, and to the increased rebate allowed by shipping companies on wool shipped to London and thence railed to Bradford. Ho states: "In the first place, it should be clearly understood that the rebate of 6d i> bale on wool via the Cape does not mean that this wool has to be conveyed by the steamer to Liverpool; the rebate is applicable on wool via the Cape to any United Kingdom port. In February this year the rail-rates in England and Scotland were advanced 6 per cent., and the shipping companies have agreed, in fact, to share with the importer the added cost of the transport on wool from London to the Bradford district, hence the increase in tho allowance of 12s 6d a ton to 14s a ton. It will thus be seen that in spite of the increased rebate, 'it will be more expensive this season to forward wool from London to Bradford. The allowance from Liverpool to Bradford, apparently remains unchanged, and in spite of the increase in rail rate,' it is still cheaper to forward wool through Hull to Bradford, as compared with Liverpool, even taking the rebate into consideration."