CORRESPONDENCE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLVII, Issue 51, 24 December 1920, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

' * ■«'■" WOOL PBIOBS. "TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —In your report re the 'Farmers' Uiiion confereuce re wool you report me as having stated that wool prices wore not very much below' former years. This is very misleading. I explained that fine wool prices were much the same as in 19114J15, tout crossibred wools much lower, but not nearly so 'bad as some speakers.at the meeting had stated—via., 4sd per lb; and it seemed to be "of no use to make the position worse than it was; as if crossbred were sold they would mafee from 6d to 7d pe* l'b, basing tliese values on actual sales in 'Christchureh. I enclose prices of (1) appraisement values, (2) 1914-15 priced and ('3) prices made at last Christchureh sale from one of the leading woolbrokers there, which may be of general interest and will also make the positioii clear, as I tried to explain it. Super merino combing 184 d to 12d to HJd, l'2d to ll*d; medium to good merino lo]d to l«d, 9?d to 'll Jd, 9}d to Hid; inferior merino 13id to lod, 83d to'flid, B}d to 94d; super halfbred 184 d to 21} A, 12d to 14d, 1U to 14d; medium to good haKbred 15Jd to 184 d, 93d to l'2d, Bsd to lOd; inferior halfbred 14d to laid, 9d to lOd, 8d to 9d; super crossbred 16Jd to 18Jd, 10 jd to 12d, 84d to 10id; medium to good crossbred 14d to 17d, 9d to 'lid, 6}d tt lU\; inferior crossibred 12{& to IM, to 9d, 5d to 6d; 'Lincoln and Leicester .T3Jd to ]6Jd, BJd to 10 Jd, 4d to 6d; lambs (good) 17d to 2fl|d, lid to 13d, 8d to lOd; lambs (medium) 14d to ]'6'M, 9d to lOfd, 7d to BJd. -• I am, etc., B. F. PANMETT. '' Douglas 'Estate,'' Clydevale.