THE WOOL CLIP.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15075, 19 May 1919, Page 4

THE WOOL CLIP.

' The wool clip of 1918-19 is now practi-* I cally all valued, and it amounts to 515 - ' 058 bales of.-a value of £11,968,455, n?ij £12^Q0,000. It weighs iBB, i 4tsb,dis pounds, and the average weight i per hale is 366 pounds. The avera«r» , price.per pound-is: 15id. But as th-> wool year does not close until 30th June ijand there; are reome 30,000 bales of odd '.lots, rough Jots, and general cleanne uti j parcels of wool to come in, which wools »iVy of lower value» the prob-ability-js-thattlie average for the whole. !j dip will be id per pound less than the :-i.oid above quoted. i. I The quantity of wool dealt with in last; •;year s. whole clip, was 522,325 bales, of a. -, value per bale of £11,854,822 The [ average value per bale was then £22 14s •.andthe average price per pound U,%cL ' - Or the present clip Nelson contributed ■ '.oib bales of an average value of £21 os lid per bale. Concerning the condi- ; tion-of; the clip Mr Walter Hill, tim oilier Supervising Valuer for the Gov- • foment, -reports on the Nelson wool-— , Compared with the previous clip, tho | wool did nut come forward in suchVoodi ! condition, being shorter, off colour, and i heavier in condition. There is.little atj tempt at classing, and consequently. i imes are generally of a mixed character " Blenheim contributes 14,574 bales of «n average value of £22 10s 8d and Mr Hill reports on the condition: £'The clip ; could not be said to *be generally as good Jas the 1917-1918. though a few lines ; came forward in better condition. \_ i little more care in preparation would jmp.ke things more satisfactory both for I growers and valuers."