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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 941, 9 May 1868, Page 3

Wool Washing in Victoria. — It woidd appear, says tho Ararat Advertiser, that squatters are determined to combat against depressing influences in the marketable value of their wool, by endeavouring, as far as known appliances will permit, to get up their next season's clip in a manner not hitherto generally attempted on a largo scale in Australia. The success of Mr. Samuel Wilson's sheep-wash, lucidly described by him, with drawings, in the Australasian, has stimulated squatters into imitative activity ; and on most large stations in the Winuncra district dam-making and sheep-wash constructions are the order of the day, thereby absorbing an amount of labour and mechanical skill very unusual at this season of the year, and which tells very perceptibly on the description of men " travelling in search of employment." The constructing and improving of sheep-washes and woolsheds is at present so universal in the Wimmora district, that, independent of the many saw3 r ers at work on stations, the Lcdcourt Bridge steam saw-mill is compelled to work day and night to supply orders now some weeks overdue.