PRODUCE AND MARKET REPORTS FROM DAY TO DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1927, Page 13

PRODUCE AND MARKET REPORTS FROM DAY TO DAY

THE WOOL* TRADE

EIGHT MONTHS OF BUSINESS

. ."Evening Post," 7th March. lhis month will see the close of the Aew Zealand wool sales, and it may be mentioued in passing that no limits are olaeed on the quantities offered durW lbU 838 bales were sold of a total offering of 103,427. During the same month 146,984 bales were exported from all ports. lhe offerings and sales at various centres of the Dominion for the eight months ended 2Sth'February, as returned by Balgety and Co., Christchureh, were as fol-

1027. , i92G. Offered. Sold. Offered. Sold.

Bales. Bales.' Bales. Bales. Invereargill 22,201 21,305 18,313 17,365 Duncdin* ... 43.531 43,047 33,444 36 912 /," nai; v, ••■ ■ ■ 28,230 27,930 27,673 27,003 Ghristehureh T33..053 02,139 59,902 56 809 Blenheim 238 222 138 117' Wellington .. 89,470 56,457 57,59;) 81,007 Uanganui ...55,781 51,742 47,516 40,998 papier 09,502 04,407 84,305 77 077 Gisborne ... 1,524 1,388 2,470 1,973 Auckland ... 38,55-1 37,738 36.455 33 606

412,156 390,495 403,211 373,587

Quoting the same authority, the centres from which the largest quantities of wool exports were derived from, in 192(3-27 were in the following order:—Wellington 81,1)5-1 bales; Aapier, 673,763 bales: Christehureh, 61,238 bales; Dunedin, 39,101' bales• Wanganui, 34,367 bales; Auckland, 25.040 bales; Invereargill, 25-737 bales. Total exports for eight months were 391,237 bales, or 22,404 bales more than the exports for the eight months ended 28th "February,

The average prices per bale realised at the Jsew Zealand sales this season, November to January, were: November, £15 ISs per bale; December, £17 14s:' January, £17 IBs Id.