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WELLINGTON WOOL SALES The fiual Wellington wool sale of the i current Beason will begin at 1.30 p.m. next ■ Friday at Wright, Stephenson's wool ! store, Pipitea Wharf, when a catalogue of approximately BGOO bales will be submitted. No limit for' this sale was fixed by the New Zealand Wool Committee, but at the corresponding sale last year the offering was 15,974 bales. Gross proceeds from the March Wellington sale of this season amounted to £166,943 lls lid. This compares with £325,241 for the March sale of 1934. The Wellington Wool Brokers' Association's report of the returns of the last Wellington sale held in March is as follows: — Offered, bales 21,070 Sold, bales W. 505 Passed in, bales 2,174 Net weight sold, lbs 7.008,270 Average per bale, £ 8/11/2.2 Average per Ib, cl. .. 5.717 Gross proceeds, £ 166,943/11/11 Going by the trend of the market as disclosed in recent sales in the Dominion, and the firmer tone of the Bradford tops market, a good clearance of the limited offering should be effected at the last sale of the season, on Friday. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 85, 10 April 1935, Page 14
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