WOOL TRADE WITH CHINA AND JAPAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3420, 27 March 1879, Page 3

WOOL TRADE WITH CHINA AND JAPAN.

Mr J. A. Bird, Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce has received the following communication from Mr Monckton Synnott : — " Flinders Wool Warehouse, March 17 :— Dear Sir, — Ihave much pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of your letters of the Feb. 26 and March 1, the latter containing the Post office order for £10 sterling, which was acknowledged in fche following day's Argus (Alarch 14). I was very sorry not to

have donor's name. I did not write when sending the printed forms for collectinz names and subscriptions, being pressed for time at the moment, and I thought they would explain themselves. The collections will fall very far short of my hopes and expectations, but still I expect to get enough to send away another fair lot of yarn, to he treated exactly as suggested in the heading of the forms. With respect fco fche samples of wool you have so kindly collected for the purpose of sending them to the Japanese Government, I would suggest their being packed in one or more plain but neat deal boxes, divided into convenient- sized compart ments, and the whole lined with a bright blue paper, each box to contain four or six fleeces ; they should not cost more than a few shillings each, and the blue paper sets off wool to great advantage. I hope you will not cease to urge.both on your Chamber and on squatters the great benefit a trade direct with China and Japan would confer upon every interest in your Colony. With best regards, I remain, dear Sir, yours very fcruly, MONCKTON SYNNOTT."