WOOL SEASON

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 4

WOOL SEASON

SELLING CENTRES. WELLINGTON- LEADS. Over 92.0H0 bales more wool were sold in the Dominion for the 1938-39 *...-.so:>. November t.. April, than for t;i" 193738 season. The sales compare as follow: Wool sold Hales If'T»-3f» 70K 770 19.37-38 614.111.9 Bales extra 02.167 The offerings in 1938-39 amounted to 727.997 bales, and total sales in each centre were in the following order: — Bales sold Wellington 12.1.412 Napier '. I2n'jl7«i Otinp.lin 102.11." Chrlstchurch ]oo ir,i Auckland 8:;.'!t" Wanganui ].' "."'ir,7 Invercarsill .m'r.'is Timaru 40 Vr. Oishorne ..'..'.'. 2..170 Tlie carrv-over of wool to sales (~ !„. ■i" '"-•'■! for next wm«iii shoul I bo nejli2tUle as it is uiidcrs'o .] inn I, ~ e.l has ;,.., „ S ol,| since the (.lose of •,!>,. New Zi-.lalid s-i ies. In A'.ril. The average nrien ~.-, 1,„1,. sold for the sca>on in review was £13 (I 11 .i',iin-t £14 fi 2 for 1937-38: or 0. ISil.l per II; against 10.043 d oer 11, last season. But for the pas' oi-.rht years, with the exception of 1930-37. the return realised last season was a fair average, loner I.v 2a'

per hal.' than that of 1037-38. Average pliers (jf ivrai] sold in X>„- Zealand en'os fur the pant few years have boon as follow: — Per hale £ K ll IfW>.".l 7 1!. S 1031 I''-' T in r. 1!'32-:i:: 7 in r, 1 !•■■".:!•» in :; n I' 1"'1 •"•- <i r, « !;';; ( ": [['} 1'! r, in u»::7-3« .!;;;;::;;;:::::: ?f [' « lf»'!S-»!» 1:; 0 11