WOOL CENTRE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 24 July 1923, Page 7

WOOL CENTRE.

WANG ANUT S FAVOUR ABLE

POSITION

i Figures have just been published dealing with the wool sales of the past . season, and they show Wanganui as a ( wool centre in a favourable light. The first table gives the number of bales sold in each centre, and the average price realised per bale : — : Average Bales per bale. ; . ~■ ■■ . sold. £ s. d. Auckland 38,952 34 310 Crisborae 2.597 10 11 8 ; papier 79,411 14 0 7 ! Waiigajuii 50,825 14 10 9 1 :\Velhngton 112,510 15 3 si' Chnstchurcli ... 64,587 19 7 1>Timam 26,022 19 1 0^ i Duiiedin 60,261- 18 17 10 i , Invercargill " 22J382 15 6 0 ; Tlie South Island averages are bet- , ter than those of the North Island, I I and Wanganui's average is second in \ the North Island, being exceeded only by Wellington. : The gross value of the. wool sold at each of the North Island centres dur- j ing the past season is given in the table S i appended:— J Bales Gross value i. ~ - sold. £ s. d. Auckland ... 38,952 552,793 8 5 Gisborne .... 2,597 27,481 18 6 i Napwr 79,411 1,114,056 6 5 Wanganui ... 50,825 731,028 1 0 , Wellington ...112,510 1,707,013 7 62 J 1B2>S7B 3 ]oi ! | The sum of about £1260 i* to be I spent in-building a library ac the Ash--1 burton High School.

This morning an event of some interest to the district took place in the opening of a new banking office in Ha'wera—the Commercial Bank of Australia. It is understood that the directors have selected those towns in j the Dominion they consider as most I solid and progressive and wil 1 open I branches in those centres. ! The Patea and District Schools' Association are holding their second series of musical and elocutionary comj petitions on July 26 and 27. Some j good school choirs were heard there last year, and further improvement is expected. Mr. Will Hutchens, Wanganui, is to adjudicate. i "When-peoijle understand that those who believe in ceremonial are not trying to take ths Anglican Church over to Rome, there will be greater progi-ess," said Rev. C. A. B. Watson during the , course of his second illustrated sermon in St. Paul's Church, Auckland, last week. He went on to show that the Eucharistic and" other rich vestments of the Church, including the bishop's cope And mitre, were directly descended from the second century. "The early Christians, in fear of their lives, had gathered secretly in- their Sunday clothes, and the garments of the clergy were modelled on the lines of those clothes. Mr. Watson had slides, thrown on a screen which showed how little ! the garments had changed, right down i through the centuries. Vestments and i ornaments of the Clrarch were a solid I proof of the antiquity of religion. Since ! the Church of Rome also claimed to be ' the ti-ue Church, it followed that the ; vestments and ornaments of the two j Churches must be very similar (reports i the Auckland. Star), "it was because I many people thought that the Anglican ; Church w-as copying Rome that a section of the clergy, had ceased to wear ; the full and proper vestments. This I was a pity, because the use of the cur- j rent vestments was an outward and visible sign in substantiation of the ivu« claim to be tlie true Church.