WOOL REQUISITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14192, 9 January 1917, Page 8

WOOL REQUISITION.

! ■ . •• ; — ... ,i ...... m, . , — — — W4RK OEpTJIE VALUEIRS. I . The Government wool Valuers are busily engaged.. a"*- :over the. -Dominion. Messrs H. T. "^jilnes (supervisor), E, Mills, P>v,Br.pwrr, and J. T. Cahill have bee^aßpointed Jo .attend to the-valuing-m HaArk^s Ba^;and Poverty Bay. They" are no^r in 2fkjJier; on their third visit of .the seasson, aiid \rhen they have dealt with, what is now in the stores they will proceed to Gisborne next week, thence to Tokomaru "Bay, returning; to Napier, to go through the same routine.' This, they expect, will continue to October, but,; needless to state, the -present is the busiest time for them. Napier will be their headqua.rte.rs. There is', already a big congestion ;in ;the stores, and the position will be acute- if shipping does not" soon- : relieve it, but that matter ..is beyond the province 1 of the valuers. Questioned by a Hawke's Bay Herald reporter, Mr.H. T. Milnes said that on the average they liad found the wool in .good condition. He could not particularise any., class, as that depended chiefly on distinct and' individuality — one partiqular class from one in'odiicer might be very good, while the -Same: class -from another producer would be (indifferent. , > . "How a.re the producKi's accepting the values " was asked. ■ "; " i "A -very , Jafge majority of the producers aro more than satisfied with the Government values as fi^ed; a,s is shown by the fact that inr'to date the number of lots which' iiaW 'gone to -an appeal,, is practically nilv' v -'„''. . »