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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4551, 23 November 1887, Page 4

;Srs.sisa©so Wotices. Canterbury Wool Sales. FIRST WOOL SALE ON DEO 2nd. SEASON 1887-1888. POSITIVE SAFETY, PUNCTUAL SETTLEMENT PROMPT ATTENTION PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE PERFECT ARRANGEMENTS. MATSON AND CO. CANTERBURY WOOL STORES, “ The Wool House ” which, for over 20 Years has persistently advocated the disposal of the New Zealand Clip by AUCTION IN THE “ LOCAL MARKET,” Thus enabling the Grower to find a •‘CASH SETTLEMENT” WITHIN THE COLONY For his year’s labour, care, and anxiety. TO THE WOOL-GROWERS, MERCHANTS, AND THE TRADE. Gentlemen, —At the approach of another wool season we take this opportunity of again addressing you, and upon this occasion, to congratulate you upon the undoubted success of last year’s sales in our local market, and to thank those who aided and assisted in bringing about such an unqualified success as attended the sales of 1886-1887. It must indeed he a cheerful consolation to every farmer to know that at last New Zealand is fast becoming one of the most important, and shortly will he one of the “CHIEF EMPORIUMS " for the sale of wools in the Australasias. Thus putting an end to the necessity of the producer (as in the past) becoming a shipper, exporter, or merchant, and fulfilling his destiny, by enabling him to “ HANDLE THE CASH ON THE SPOT,” and thus know his success or failure for his year’s labour. Our advocacy is, and has always been, the accumulating of “LARGE CATALOGUES OF WOOL.” thereby enticing buyers from all parts of the world, through agents or otherwise, for we still hold to the belief •‘THAT WHERE THE CARCASE IS, SO SURELY THE EAGLE WILL SHORTLY QUAMBY.” We have no intention to weary our friends with a long description of the facilities at our disposal for their especial benefit, suffice it to say that the same accommodation and specialties pertaining to our wool business of last season, which our friends were good enough to appreciate by entries in catalogues of greater dimensions than upon any preceding occasion, are at your disposal this season. Without vanity we re-echo the oft-repeated sentiment of the trade, “No question about it, these are far and away the most suitable and best lighted Wool Rooms in Canterbury.” Well, gentlemen, as with the Wool Booms so with the system adopted in the get-up of the Sales. We make a rule to spare no trouble in seeing that each bag or bale has its fair position, and that every opportunity for inspection and valuation is afforded. As resident Brokers and Salesmen of long standing, in fact one of the first firms who established Wool Sales in Canterbury, we claim it as our duty to our clients and the trade generally to most earnestly counsel them upon no consideration to repeat the persistent errors of the past in foolishly packing “ under one cover ” several lands of wool. Such as bale number so-and-so contains so-and-so, or, as in many instances, no advice as to peculiarity of contents, and when , subsequently examined by buyer the lot is rejected under the “ safety valve” of clause re false packing. Wool bales and bags are cheap enough, surely. Then why not expend an extra penny and save pounds ? These remarks refer equally to daggings and coarse breechings. No article of produce is so sensitive to the “ market touch” as wool. The wool-buyer is the most artistic and wary of purchasers; he is at once the most confidential or suspicious creature in trade, and rightly so too. Noted brands will always command the respect of the wool-buyer, but in case of stray, ill-got up lines, wherein at times are to be found all sorts and conditions of fleeces, now and then daggings, a sheep-skin or two, &c., these suffer mercilessly in the hands of the trade. Whereas, had the consignment been carefully “gone over”in “owner’sshed” and placed in separate parcels, each kind of i wool by itself, never mind how small a bulk, the seller would be a very large gainer. In no other calling is “negligence or carelessness” so “ severely punished” as in the ease of wool; perhaps the infliction is not at the time perceptible, but the unwary producer soon finds his pocket lighter than that of his more discreet neighbour. Query—Why throw away money when it can be so easily saved ? With regard to charges, these are reduced to the lowest, and are upon the same scale as other houses. No charge is made for cartage from Rail to our well-lighted Stores. This is a great boon, which we, with pleasure, give to our clients.

Viewing the outlook of the Wool Market, we can, with every confidence, advise our friends and the public generally to try the Local Market this season before rashly sending forward by sea. Habit is, like opium eating, very hard to overcome, but in wool producing the producer should have '* two shots for his money.” There is no necessity to place in store the whole clip. Send sample Bales of each class, which system was introduced by a most valued client, some few years since, and emulated by many, both of the plains and the Peninsula, and has invariably resulted in equal satisfaction. Large Catalogues, produced from the various Brokers doing business in Canterbury, is the only bait to attract our worthy French and Foreign Buyers, who frequent Menzies’ Hotel, and have their cards placed upon the seats in the various Melbourne Wool Booms.

Why not try F Is New Zealand to remain in the background for ever? In troubling you with these remarks we do so in the interests of many wool-growers, who, from habit in the good prices of the past, hare become careless, and the taste of adversity of late should act as an incentive to use every care and caution in the ‘get up’ of the clips, to secure all the advantages of the rise. “ Collar every dollar” is an old but very true saying. Values in wool are made or marred by care or carelessness. We ask the pardon of some growers for thus, as it were, again, “ rubbing it in,” but having the experience of lengthened years as salesmen,and our position allowing us to view both sides of the question, we take the liberty, in growers’s interests, as well as in the general interests of the trade, to press upon the owners of wool, especially the two and twenty bale lots, the necessity to insist upon careful sorting. “ Nothing is more attractive to the eye of an expert than a nice, even well-classed lino of wool, be it either merino, half-bred, or cross-bred.” Obtain the attraction and you secure the price. In conclusion we may state that, failing a sale in the local market equal to vendor’s limits, we are in a position unsurpassed to place your clips in the London market upon terms which certainly will bear favourable comparison with any others in the trade, not even excepting the greatest Wool Houses in the world. Our Agents and Brokers in London thoroughly understand the ramifications of the Wool Trade, and should anticipations here be not realised, you can rest quite contented that, if you elect to ship, your wool will have the especial care of men who thoroughly know the varying tone of the European market, and can watch your interests accordingly. We have the pleasure to say should you wish to draw against your consignments or shipments, the advance will be placed to your credit with your banker upon receipt of advices. Wishing you a prosperous season, and that the dull clouds of the past will shortly become obliterated in tho rapidly approaching sunshine and prosperity our Colony is about to inherit. We are, Gentlemen, MATSON & CO., Wool Brokers, Canterbury. Wool Stores, Christchurch. Agents and Beoeivbes— MATSON & CO,, Ashburton and Leeston. WM. BUSS, Bangiora. All consignments per rail, addressed i “ Matson & Co., Christchurch,” come direct - to our Stores,