End-of-season wool sale
The wool-selling season in Canterbury will close on Friday when about 18,500 bales will be offered in Christchurch.
The offering will be a typical end-of-season one.
“You name it, we have I got it,” said a spokesman for a wool-selling firm. A representative of another firm said that there were wools of every length and quality.
Wools are drawn from Mid and North Canterbury, Nelson, and the West Coast, and there is a small quantity from the Chatham Islands. Second-shear crossbreds and iambs’ wool form a sizeable part of the selection. These wools are higher yielding on this occasion after the heavy rain this year. Some of the lambs’ woo! is well grown and of good length, and some of the crossbred second-shear wools are also of quite good length. There is some full-length fleece, and some of the aut-umn-shorn Corriedale wools are in reasonably good order,. being sound and of reasonable length. Nelson and West Coast wools, however, are showing a fair amount of colour.
Brokers are not very optimistic about the market,
[which has been steadily slipping since the last Christchurch sale in April. They would like to be proved wrong.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33540, 22 May 1974, Page 12
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