WOOL SEASON

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 95, 16 January 1919, Page 8

WOOL SEASON

WELLINGTON VAL "iJATIONS. Since November 6 lasti to. date Government valuers in tlio Wellington' dis'trict .(wliich includes 'Wellington, Blenheim, Pic-ton, Nelson. ."Wanganui. and Wnitarn) have dealt w : /tk nearly Go,ooo bales of the Ifflß-19 clip. Talcing the , average tmlhc at £23 per bale, this will mean ji 'pay-out nircndv oii greasy wool alone of £1,470.85". Ip imdition, nbonl one thousand bales of slip? wool have boon valued throughout Hip. Wellington district. This tinin last year, however y 'there wore 32.405 more bales of gfeaijy wool valued. The position is disclof/btl in the following table of quantities;/ of greasy wool so disposed of: — ,'. Season Sen son •','■ 1918-19. 1917-18. Bales. Bales. Blouheim and ]Ji(:ton 6.PSI 8.2-19 Nelson ' 3.338 0,016 Wellington 1 3-1.500 00.63(1 Wanganui .....' 15,600 .16,805 Waitara .....U 5,022 Totals ;./......... 64,319 06,722 Shearing ha/s been much delayed this season —first / on . account of bad weather, aps next to n considerable extent by rfciison of the general disorganisation of industry by the influenza. of slipe wool have been retarded by. the same causes. The wool coming into stores this season u 'not up to last year's condition, mainly owing, to the very cold and weti winter, from which sheep liave suffered a gooi], deal. There is a tender cluracter in much of the wool.