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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 143, 15 December 1919, Page 6

Inquiries made at the wool stores by The Post's TVangahui correspondent show that wool is coming in fairly well, ths dry weather facilitating matters to an appreciable extent. The clip, however, appears to lack the quality of other years, the vagaries of the seasons being responsible. Hogget wool is tender And short in stapU, and, generally speaking, there is a deficiency in weight that will lepresent the loss of a good many thousands of pounds to "the farmers of the West Coast. One big contributing factor to the general lightness of the clip this season is the influenza aftermath. Last season the epidemic interfered with shearing operations to such an extent that scores of flocks, which are usually shorn in November and December, were not rehevea of their wool until well in January. Then shearing* commenced burly tins aenson, ho that a li«htnesa ill texture was fully anticipated,"