SHEARING HELD UP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22261, 8 November 1935, Page 10

SHEARING HELD UP

EFFECT OF COLD WEATHER delivery of clip delayed SLACKNESS AT CITY STORES The continued cold, squally weather may retard seriously the wool selling season in New Zealand. It has been impossible to carry on shearing under present conditions, owing to the low temperaturen at night and the wet state of the fleeces. - The prospects of a full catalogue or 25,000 bales at the first sale, which will be held at Auckland on November 26, are anything but encouraging. Wool is dribbling into the city stores at the rate of about 200 bales a day, whereas usually at this time of the year about 1000 to 1500 bales are received daily. The quantities of wool being received are not sufficient to keep in employment the extra hands usually engaged by the stores prior to the sales. Con 7 sequently, where men have been engaged many are being put off until more wool is offering. This is most unusual at a time when the stores generally are working at high pressure. The catalogues for the sale are required to be ready in a fortnight from to-day. Unless there is an inward rush in the next two weeks, it is doubtful whether 20,000 bales will be available for sale. Of this amount, 15,000 bales will be last season's wool and only 5000 bales will represent the current season's clip in the Auckland district. THE HAWKE'S BAY CLIP GOOD YIELD FORECAST [bt TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] NAPIER, Thursday Judging by the fleeces already shorn in Hawke's Bay, there is every reason to anticipate that the coming wool clip will return a most satisfactory yields and one considerably in advance of last year's. Many farmers report that the fleeces from their dry sheep are in bright, strong and healthy condition, due in large measure to the flocks having wintered well. The wool is generally of good length and since the sheep have done well there is an absence of breaks and tenderness. The fleeces are reported to be very clean owing to the wet season causing an absence of dust. In an early shorn flock the fleeces from young sheep were particularly bright and lustrous, possessing a high yield, Coarser qualities were also clean and attractive, and properly got up should display well when the buyers make their inspection for the purpose of valuation. A farmer on medium hill country,, when he mustered recently for a pick of fat lambs, opened several fleeces on the ewes, and was surprised to see the depth of wool of even texture. It was showing a decided improvement on last season, and he anticipated that it would return a marked increase in weight Many farmers, more particularly on the flats, are becoming somewhat concerned at the delay that is taking place with shearing owing to the weather, as they are anxious to have shorn all the sheep that are ready before the appearance of burr clover. Last season many buyers commented adversely on the spread of burr in many Hawke's Bay clips, and consequently lacked interest in badly-affected lots.