25,000 BALES OFFERED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 28 November 1941, Page 3

25,000 BALES OFFERED

CANTERBURY WOOL HIGH QUALITY CLIP (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Between 20,000 and 25,000 bales o. wool will be placed before the appraisers at the first main offering of wool in Christchurch this season. Valuing will commence on Tuesday. Because of the excellent growing season, the wool has come forward in splendid order. In general, the wool so far delivered is well grown, bright and clean and handles very well. It is of better quality than the good clip of last year. Right through the winter the weather was about as good as could have been asked, and it was not until August that there was a break. When the August break came, it made up in some respects for the mild earlier months, and on much of the wool it has left a trace of dried yolk. The trouble is not serious, but is enough to mar what might have been an almost perfect clip. The good winter with its abundant feed, has made the wool slightly coarser than last year's clip. Nearly all the wool to hand so far is from dry sheep, t.he preponderance of it being, as usual, hogget. There is a little ewe wool but not much. Deliveries' into the Christchurch stores have been consistent and heavy in the last few weeks, and most brokers report that they have rather more on hand of the new clip than is usual. The stores are not yet clear of the whole of last year’s wool and probably (100(1 bales of old wool are still waiting for shipping space.