WOOL PRODUCTION

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 87, 11 January 1928, Page 12

WOOL PRODUCTION

SALES AND EXPORTS The following table (compiled by Dalgety and Co.) shows the sales of wool in New Zealand during December. 1927, the quantities being given in bales:—

For the corresponding six months, 1926, 151.315 bales were offered and 141,787 sold. The number of bales of wool exported from New Zealand to the end of Decem-

MAGISTRATE’S COURT 1 POLICE CASES. Police cases were dealt with by Air. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Detective-Sergeant Holmes prosecuted. John Ronald Stevens, aged 23, a-t accountant by occupation, was remanded to appear at Christchurch on a charge of forging a receipt for a timber royalty and causing the Native trustee at Christchurch to act on It as if it were genuine.

Pleas of guilty to receiving stolen goods, chiefly clothing, were entered by three circus hands named Robert Landlord, aged 31, Ernest Stanley Stewart, sged 30, and Robert Edward Butcher, aged 36. Landford admitted two charges involving the receipt of goods ’to the value of £2l, Stewart one charge relating to property valued at £2, and Butcher a charge involving goods to the value of £2 4s. 6d. It was explained by the detective-sergeant that the three accused were members of Wirths’ Circus, • and that the offences had taken ; lace in the South Island. A’ sentence of fourteen days’ imprisonment was imposed on each man, but on application by the accused that their imprisonment would mean their stranding in New Zealand, the Magistrate fined each man £5, in default fourteen days.

The largest collection firm in New Zealand is .be Dominion Mercantile Agencv, Ltd , of Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch, with agents in every New Zealand town, and associate offices throughout the world. —Advt.

Dec.. 1927. Totals for 6 mouths. Oil’d. Sold. Oil’d. Sold. Invercargill .. —. — •— Dunedin Ttmaru .. 19,667 19,363 22,629 22,083 .. 9,o66 9,704 10,685 10,505 Christchurch . 13,897 13.666 J 7,245 16,940 Blenheim .... 59 57 141 134 Wellington .. .. 25,938 24,773 37,636 36,359 Wanganui .... — —— 13,403 12,611 Napier .. 27,868 1 26,564 44,382 42,924 Gisborne 1 423 397 Auckland — 23,697 23.548 97.296, 94.128 170,241 165.501

ber, 1927, is shown in the following table, also compiled by Dalgety and Co.. Ltd.:— CorresTotal ponding Dec., for 6 mths., 1927. 6 mths. 1926. Invercargill 332 4,009 3,964 Dunedin 1.041 5,813 5,691 Oam-aru .. — 1,045 894 Timaru 550 8,097 7,055 Christchurch 11,625 21,566 29,130. Blenheim — 505 659 Nelson —- 38 171 Wellington 20,829 38,950 28,384 Wanganui New Plymouth, Wai10,351 14,465 11,094 tara — 175 126 Napier, Wairoa Gisborne. Tokomaru, 10,859 23,499 21,152 Bay, Hicks Bay ... 4.965 15,804 10,221 Auckland, Opua . 19,497 24,143 20,582 80,049 158,109 139,123