WOOL SHIPMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2857, 31 January 1916, Page 2

WOOL SHIPMENT.

A small deputation of wool-brokers interviewed tlie Prime Minister in Wellington on Saturday regarding tho wool situation, and the prospects of getting vessels to take the bales away. The interview was private. Subsequently, the Prime Minister stated that the situation is greatly improving. Compared with previous years a certain amount of delay was comparatively unavoidable owing to two reasons, viz., the fact that the season has been later (ban usual, and the scarcity of ships for general cargo. But things were improving, and he had been informed.that the Dunedin wool

sales would go on. .No further information, said the I'rinio Minister, had come to band ,in regard to-wool purchased for the United States in the early part of the season., ' He bad again cabled the Imperial authorities asking for a reply at the earliest, possible dale. Alvouf 20,000 bales of that wool still remained unshipped, and most of it had been purchased on the sheep's back.