RUSHING SHIPMENTS TO PORT

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 3 January 1910, Page 6

RUSHING SHIPMENTS TO PORT

LACK OF STORAGE

■■Friday's New Zealand Times says: Wellington wool-brokers are faced with a difficulty that demands joint action on the part of all interested it the' success of the local wool sales, as against direct Home shipment, is to be maintained. The rush of wool on to the Wellington market has been so exceptional for the sales on Monday next that breaking point has been reached in the matter of storage. Ihe position is accentuated by the following ~ communication which has been sent to the Wellington brokers:—

District Traffic Manager's Office, Wellington,' December 29, 1909. Gentlemen,—l have to advise you that owing to the large accumulation of wool in Wellington caused through the inability of the Harbour Board and consignees to take prompt delivery on arrival, I have been compelled to notify the principal wool-loading stations in this* district that no further wool is to be, accepted for conveyance to Wellington before Monday, 3rd proximo. Yours faithfully, S. F. WHITCOMBE,

District Traffic Manager

THE POSITION EXPLIANED

Mr Nathan, of Messrs Bannatyne and Co.'s wool department, questioned by a Times reporter in regard to the foregoing letter, said the Railway Department was no doubt taking up the correct attitude. There had been an extraordinary increase of consignments for- the Wellington sales this year, taxing the brokers' accommodation to the utmost. Since December 24th all the wool which had been comine to Wellington brokers could not be shown until after the sale on Monday next. The stores, would, ot course, bo relieved after the next skie, and then the firms would be in tne position of being able to accept further consignments. The trouble, however, was to cope with the present position. Brokers could not take delivery of the wool now coming in, ■nor could the Harbour Board. : tie suggested, as a remedy, to «^ atJ * recurrence of this trouble, that the Railway Department; • receive jio wool from. Christmas until after.the "New Year sale, as was now -being done by the department, until such time as all interested decided on some combined action to prevent the rush of consignments to market that had at present set in.