GISBORNE WOOL SALES.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 12

GISBORNE WOOL SALES.

Gisborne is still urging the holding of local wool sales to be attended by overseas buyers. Gisborne is. an important "wool-growing centre, and it claims to have facilities equal to/ and in some respects better that, those possessed by some of the' other selling centres, but- Gisborne is denied the right, of having wool sales conducted there. Apparently, so long as the buyers are able. to obtain Gisborne wool ,at Napier, they are content,to,-pro-serv# the present afeite of affairs. The sales roster for ■ next season will be drawn .up before long, and the Gisborne Wool Brokers' Association has been pressing the claims of it's centre. The request for inclusion in next season's roster came before the. buyers at a recent meeting, but consideration was deferred: It is admitted that Gisbome is an important woolproducing centre, but buyers hold that there alx already too many selling centres in New' Zealand, and it would be to the advantage of all if the sales were more centralised, as jn Australia. For some time the attitude of the buyers has been to eliminate some of the centres already in-cluded-in the roster in New Zealand. Rather than ship to Napier, Gisborne has preferred to' send wool direct to London for sale, and so far this season, states the Poverty Bay "Herald," 15,356 bales have been loaded for sale in England, as against 14,000 bales sent to Napier. It is estimated that Gisborne could offer brokers a total catalogue of 30,000 bales for the first season.