CHRISTCHURCH WOOL CHEQUE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.') CHRISTCHURCH, February 16. The second Christchurch wool sale of the season, held on January 30, resulted in a total return to growers of £299,874, a reduction of £35,808 on the total for the second sale of the previous season. The catalogue at this sale was 5777 bales smaller, but 1003 bale more were sold. *
The average price a bale this sale was £12 13s 7.633 d, or 9.567 d a lb,' against £14 16s 6d, or 10.88 d last season. The bale price at the first Christchurch sale this season, when the offering was slightly less attractive than at the second sale, was £13 7s 3d, and the price a lb 10.087 d.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 12
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