HUNTER WILL CASE.
CONDITION OF WOOL. AN EGPERT’S EVIDENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. In the Hunter case yesterday Edward Leslie Hazelton, a wool expert, of Wellington, said that twice in May he had inspected a quantity of wool and skins from the station in a Wellington store. Some of ttie skins were badly damaged, carrying earth or sahd. Some of the wool apparently had been burned or singed, a/id other wool appeared to have been buried. Burial while damp could have caused the scorching. Had the loose - wool been undamaged it would have been worth to-day lOd to Is per lb, and some of the wool still had a saleable value. He could see not the slightest excuse for burying or burning the skins and wool. Some of the skins he saw were properly treated, but some were misshapen through being thrown over posts, and some we're badly weatherbeaten, ttie pelts being valueless. He saw no sign of weevils in any of the skins he had examined. The cross-examination of the witness was postponed until more evidence is forthcoming as to Ihe exact source of some of the wool witness spoke of.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20230, 26 June 1937, Page 11
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