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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7933, 5 January 1906, Page 6

Thft fund for the establishment of an epileptic oolouy in Victoria has now reached £IO,OOO. including two grants of £3OOO, Last Saturday aTimaru Herald reporter was shown samples of false paoking\f wool whioh fully bore out the complaints of many buyers. In one'case a bale classed and paoked at a public shed, was classed as fine half-bred, and was valued and sold as suob, bringing lid, or over the valuation. On opening the bale further, the buyer found the interior largely composed of crossbred wool, of medium texture, and worth 2>ad lees than the fine wool. Another case was much worse. In the midst of some good clean fine wool, such as would command a good price at any time, was a mass of almost the coarsest crossbred wool in the shed, eight inches long in the staple, and like hair in parts. Still another case was shown. A bale in one lot was out open in the middle of one side, where it had not been cut before. A few handfulls were pulled out, "pieces," fairly though not very clean wool of ordinary quality. A few inches from the outside, however, came another kind, the dirtiest of dirty trimmings, bad to look upon, and worse 10 smell, mixed with pieces of dung that had absolutely no claim to the name of wool at all,