SHEARING IN FULL SWING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 6

SHEARING IN FULL SWING

WANGANUI DISTRICT WOOL NEXT APPRAISEMENT AT END OF JANUARY Fine weather has enabled shearers to make rapid progress in the Wanganui district. Up until recently broken weather conditions caused a great deal of delay, but wool is now coming into store very rapidly. The next appraisement of wool offered in Wanganui for sale to • the United Kingdom Government will be towards the end of January. Wanganui brokers state that there will be more broken types of wool .n lhat offering than came forward I his month. The wider range of qualiti/s. it is believed, will lead to a lower average price. Good wools, however, will make good money and appraisements will be made strictly in accord with the range of price agreed upon. Wool Opening Up Well Woo! for the second appraisement of the season is reported to be opening up well. It is said that there is considerably less bidi bidi in some of the areas about Wanganui than in the past. That may be because of the work of the Chilean sawfly, liberations of which were made some time ago by Dr. D. Miller, of the Cawthron Institute. Farmers from the Wangaehu Valley j who made a trip over the Parapara Road recently, noted with satisfaction that there appeared to be considerably less bidi bidi than they expected to see. They were keen to know whether the sawfly had played a part in lessening the menace and just how big that part had been. Wool brokers in the city appear| confident that, the average price that, will be obtained for Wanganui wool. this season under the State commandeer will be £l7 a bale, roughly Hid per lb. Five per cent., of course, will be withheld in the meantime, the intention being to use that in a suspense account to bring the season's over-all average to 12id. £399,667 for Distribution Next Week Next Thursday, December 28. will be prompt date and a sum of £399,667 will be distributed to growers on account of wool sold at the first, appraisement This sum will be £2C,56G less than the actual gross realisation, 5 per cent, of which will be withheld.