WOOL PRICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 3

WOOL PRICES

FIXED FOR GREAT BRITAIN. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY FIGURES. The schedule of prices for the 1941 wool clip in Great Britain recently issued by the Ministry of Supply show an advance on the 1940 prices of about 15 per cent, being as follows:— England: Lincoln Hoggs and Wethers, washed 183 d, greasy 16d; Notts, Leicester and Yorkshire Hoggs and Wethers, 183 d, 16d; Border Leicesters, 18£d, 16d; Notts, Yorkshire, Lincoln and Leicester Halfbreds, 18Jd, 16d; Norfolk Halfbreds, 17Jd, 15d; Best Shropshires, 21 \d, 163 d; Best Ryelands, 20:25, 16jd; Suffolk Downs in Eastern Counties, 20.3 d, 16jd; Sussex Southdowns, 25]d, 20|d; Oxford Downs, 20|d, 16d; Dorset Downs and Horns, 25|d, 17id; Eastern Counties Downs, 16d; Kent Tegs, 17Jd, 15|d; Kent Ewes and Wethers, 17id, 16d; Kent Halfbred Downs, 18]d, 16d. Wales: Shropshire and Best Kerry. 21Jd, 163 d; Fine Crossbred, 13.1 d; Radnors and Crossbreds, 17d, 13jd; Fine Welsh, 19jd, 15.1 d; Ordinary Welsh, 18|d, 14£d; Turbary Welsh. 14Jd, —. Washed Shorn Lambs Wool: Shropshire and Best Kerry, 16|d, 13|d; Radnor and Crossbred, 13d, lOd; Welsh Lambs, 12Jd, lOd. Scotland: Cheviot Ewe and Hogg, 21Jd, 18d; Halfbred Hogg and Wether, 19d, 17« d; Lesters, 163 d; Crosses, —, 15d; Blackfaced, —, 14Jd. Northern Ireland: Suffolk Downs, —, 16d; Fine Halfbreds, —, 15Jd; Lesters. —lsd; Crosses, —, 14d; Blackfaced, -, 133 d.