AUSTRALIAN WOOL
WHENCE IT IS SHIPPED
Commonwealth wool shipments during .April amounted to 314,491 bales, making, the total for the first ten months of the season 2,451,793 bales, as compared with 2,602,336 bales during the same period of last season, a decrease of 150,543 bales.
The United Kingdom ranks as the best customer, with 1,035,892 bales, as compared with 789,483 bales and 857,151 bales in the two previous seasons. Japan is in second place with 504,596 bales, as. contrasted with 554,493 bales and .597,772 bales in the first ten months of the two previous seasons. German figure's have fallen from 400,476 bales in 1933-34 and 341,706 bales in 1932-33, to 82,525 bales, and Italian figures also show a big fallingoff. Belgian and French figures show increases.
The figures of the exports from the Commonwealth to the leading woolusing countries for the first ten months of the current and previous seasons are compared below:—
1934-35 2933-34 ._ ., , Bales. Bales. United Kingdom ..1,035,892 789,483 Japan 504,596 554,493 Belgium 373,816 334,875 France 229,676 . 228,076 Germany 82,525 400,476 Italy ••• 56,350 196,578 Netherlands 47,272 9,971 Poland 37,169 34,922 Spain 23,071 ' 4,151 U.S.A 13,223 18,523
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 12
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188AUSTRALIAN WOOL Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 12
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