THE WOOL TRADE
SHEARING TIME PROBLEM HOME MARKET FIRMER (Received Feb. ;">, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. I'rofessor A. F. Barker, professor of textile industries at Leeds University, writing ill the Yorkshire Observer, raises the question of whether shearing at the same time every year should be abandoned. lie .suggests shearing to a length at which wool should be sheared to give the best manufacturing results. Shearing to give a square top would enable Hie product'win of a stronger and nnoro perfect fabric. In African wool districts the demand was that la in lis' wool should be shorn at six. eight, and 10 months. At Monday's Wool sales 9407 bales sold, including 8846 from New Zealand. Among the. latter sales were: R.N/IL'tukawa greasy hjalfbread, which realised 14d; Waitnki and Pukeuri, super halfbred slipc lamb wool made I7d. Keener bidding in London caused a firming of merinos and fine crossbred tops in the Bradford market. Sixtyfours were quoted at 29d, sixties at 28d, fifty-sixes at 22jd, fifties at 18Jd, and forties at lod.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17176, 5 February 1930, Page 11
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171THE WOOL TRADE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17176, 5 February 1930, Page 11
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