A GOOD SEASON
TOTAL FOR THK ITVK SALKS NEARLY 12,000,000 [THE PRESS Special SrrvicM WELLINGTON. April Wi. Although to-day's wool rule was a disappointing end to an otherwise remarkably good rmson. growers n« brokers have good cause'to be sat sficd ivith the results as ;i whole. L.-timat me to-rlav's gross realisation 011 a conservative basis, it can be .-aid that the total lor the five sales of the U» ;;.t season will V ery ncnilj lc.o £2 000.000. compared with io» the' live rales of 1932-33. The net quantity unsold altei unc :: ,le is cleaned up will make for a slight I v larger cany-over in .he Wellington district than would haw. been the eas'j if the sale had been a normal one; but, taken as a whole, 1 lie season lias produced a remarkably good clearance, and the total quantity held over will not be an embarrasmcnt to trie trade. The January sale at Wellington represented the peak of the season loi New Zealand. Of a total offering of 31,465 bales, only f>2 bales were unsold. The gross realisation for this sale was £637.222, or only £65,073 less than the total of £702,296 for the five sales of last season. The series of sales ended to-day was the best for five years.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 13
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213A GOOD SEASON Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 13
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