THE SEASON'S WOOL CLIP.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15310, 25 February 1920, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE SEASON'S WOOL CLIP.

DISTRICT COMPARISONS

NELSON, "GOOD AVER-AGE QUALITY."

[Pee United Pkess Association.]

Wellington, Feb. 11. In a statement regarding the wool clip as valued on January 31st, Mr Massey says that tlie wool from the Auckland district is not quite as well grown as last season, but is a shade finer.

In Hawke's Bay and Poverty Bay the drought affected the clip. In some cases the wool is half-perished and has a rough tip. In Southern Hawke's Bay and Wairoa the wools are mainly well grown and in light condition.

In Wellington and Wanganui the 3ry season made the wool tender, but lambs' wool is better than the average.

The Waitara clip showed an improvement.

Nelson wool is good average quality. Blenheim coast and back-country wools are in first-class order, but overstocking and the dry autumn affected the wools from other parts of the district.

Wools from Christchurch and Timaru are robust and almost entirely free from tender fleeces.

The severe winter in the oam aru, Dunedin, and Invereargill district had a detrimental effect on the wool, which for the most part is "poorly grown and shorter in staple than in the previous season.1 ,