RECORD OFFERING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 6

RECORD OFFERING

AUCKLAND WOOL SALE OVER_TWO DAYS FINE SHEARING SEASON (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 16. Owing to the heavy influx of wool the catalogue for a record two-day January sale in Auckland was closed yesterday. Forty thousand bales will be offered at this sale and the quantity is already in store. The fine weather this season has brought shearing forward to a degree not recalled for many years in the trade. It is belie\ed that the shearing season has been the best for at least 20 years. In November, 1946, it was with difficulty that the Auckland selling centre was able to muster about 12,000 bales of the new clip for that month’s sale while this year there was no trouble in reaching the 25,000-bale limit set for the November sale. More wool could have been submitted if the authorities would have accepted the additional quantity. Already at this early stage of the season over 70,000 bales of wool have been sold or placed in store in Auckland. This represents about seventwelfths of last season’s offering at Auckland. The Auckland January sale will make wool selling history in the Dominion. Not only is the 40,000-bale limit a record offering for any centre in the Dominion, but the sale is to be held over two days with an interval for valuation. the fixture is set down for Jan. uarv 19 and 22 and the offering is to be 20,000 bales on each day.