WOOL PROSPECTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 November 1924, Page 7

WOOL PROSPECTS

WELLINGTON SALE. SMALL OFFERING. DUE TO BAD WEATHER. (By Telegraph— Special to Star). WELLINGTON, Nov. 15. Compared with the opening sale of last year, when 12,890 bales were offered, Monday’s list of 7225 bales shows a big drop. The reason for so small a catalogue is the bad weather interfering with shearing. This was general throughout the Wairarapa and the Manawatu districts. Wool, however, that has been sent into the sales is reported. by the authorities to be in much better .condition than it has been for years. It is bright, clean, and of good long staple, and ' free from tenderness. Its condition plainly indicates that the sheep have been well nourished during the winter. There will be practically no lambs’ wool in the sale, the date being too early, iso far as can be ascertained all wool to be offered will be this season’s, as growers have generally cleared out everything. Wool will be almost entirely crossbreds and Romneys. Buyevs are. in the city in unusual strength, and appear to be keen to buy everything offering at current high market rates. /All buying countries will he strongly represented, including Bradford, the Continent, the United States and Japan. A quick and early sale is expected.