WORLD RECORD
PRICE FOR WOOL AUSTRALIAN. MERINO A reader has asked for details of the world record price for wool. At, a wool sale at Launceston, Tasmania, on February 3 last, a world record price of 210 d (17s 6d) per lb was paid by a French buyer for one bale of Australian greasy extra, superfine merino wool. The bale weighed 2251 b, and realised £196 17s 6d in Australian currency.
The'wool was grown on the property of Mr R. R. Taylor, at Campbell Town, Tasmania. Mr Taylor says that forbears of thb sheep which provided the wool were smuggled from Saxony to Tasmania 122 years ago by a Mrs John Furlong and her two sons. Mrs Furlong arrived in Hobart town m 1826 and established the stud which now belongs to Mr Taylor.
The top price on record for scoured wool is 196 d per lb, obtained in England in 1807 for a scoured bale from the Spanish merino flock of John MacArthur, the pioneer of the Australian wool industry, at the first commercial sale of fine wool Exported from Australia.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27212, 15 October 1949, Page 2
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