WOOL RETURNS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 18

WOOL RETURNS.

RECORD SEASON ENDS.

MARCH FIGURES, £475,423.

SEASON'S CHEQUE, £1,528,545.

The best wool season on record for Vuckland pastoralists has now been inalisid with the posting of cheques for lie third sale held on March 5.

Returns made available this morning by Mr. L. P. Connor, secretary of the \inkland Wonlbrokers" -Association, -how that tlie estimates formed on the lay of the sale have been fully realised. I'he total amount of the cheques £475,423 brings the season's total to • '\er one and a half million pounds, easily the biggest yield to date from the sheep's fleece in the Auckland province. This handsome result has been due to a world shortage of the raw material and once again the wotl has asserted its position as king of the textiles. Notab!e features in the season that has just closed we e the fine stimulus •jiven to the first fixture with which Auckland set the ball rolling for the dominion by keen bidding on behalf of .'apanese firms and the avidity with hich Bradford and Continent operators ook up the running at later sales when ihe Japanese had eased off. Clearance At Last Sale. Details supplied by the Woolbrokers' Association show that at the last sale almost a total clearance was effected. Of 22,303 bales offered 22,265 were sold, three of the five brokers operating recording a 100 per cent clearance. The total weight of the wool sold was 7,673,1091b. total value £475,423 3/5. Average per lb 14.873 d, average per bale £21 11. Details of the season's sales are as follow: — Average Average per bale. per lb. Value. £ s. d. d. £ Nov. 28 .. 20 lO 6 14.223 430.270 Tan. 25 ... 22 C 7 13."47 m.*t.852 Mar. 5 ... 21 T n 14. S7:i 475.42.; Appended : 3 a table showing the returns for Auckland's third sale since 1927:— Ar«rapre Average per Lale per lb. Total. £ s. d. d. i: 13-27 16 IS 4 11.98 136X00 1028 20 17 7 13.26 2!>.000 1029 16 2 8 11.SO 29.020 193U S IS 10 6.31 114.098 1031 !* 6 lO 6.54 145.154 11132 . . 5 7 3 3.70 .K5.419 1033 3 3 2 3.52 61.318 1034 11 2 il 7.67 151.214 1035 8 O 5 5.64 87.684 1936 11 14 2 S.< v :t 371.380 1037 31 7 O 14. *7 475,423 The totals realise! at the Auckland sales in the past nine seasons are as :ollow:— Peason Totr.l amount. 1928-29 £1.024.682 1929-30 498.717 1930 3-1 323,806 1931-32 310.H13 1032-33 341.557 1933-34 934.363 1934-33 344.030 1933-36 935.621 1036-37 1,528.545