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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 8

It. Was stated by an Auckland resident well acquainted with wool conditions that there were two factors in onieton with wool clips tins yea,; that should improve the farmers ■ finances. In the first instance, woo | this season was much cleaner than it Ijoi Ueeii for several years, due, lie .said, to the excellent winter we had experienced-*. circumstance that had nSfa the sheep healthier, as reflected in the- excellent .lambing season. In the second instance, those farmers who had ; withheld gelling their clips for the past, two or three years, waiting for bettu i prices, vVere now putting their clips on , the market, and thus could realise on |

them. Commenting on this latter fact, he said very often the fanner was no : better off. because an astute woolbuyer could usually “pick” the old wool, an I i would bid low accordingly. j A record tally was put up at the. Tonioana freezing works on Tuesday, when, under the chain system of operating, £024 sheep and Jambs constituted the day’s killing. Shearing is now well advanced in. Central Hawke’s Bay and in the major- ; ity of cases the dry ewes are already I finished, and a start made on the wet ewes. The fleeces on the average aro j considerably heavier this season.