WOOL INDUSTRY
NEW SOUTH WALES GUP BIG DROP IN VALUE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 6. (Received August 6, at 9 a.m.) The Government Statistician’s, estimate of the last New South Wales wool clip discloses that the value was less than half that of 1927-28, and £5,000,000 below the year 1930. The number of sheep and lambs shorn was 48,760,000, which is the lowest since 1926. The weight of the wool was 427,000,0001 b, averaging 8.7 d per lb. The peak year was 1928, when the clip was worth £38,000,000, averaging 19Jd per lb. The recent abundant rains have assured a heavy average yield of wool in the coming year.
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Evening Star, Issue 20864, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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110WOOL INDUSTRY Evening Star, Issue 20864, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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