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OPENING OF SALES For Australia (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.? (Received August 20 at 10 p.m.) BRISBANE, August 20. There was considerable interest in the opening of the first series to-day of the 1934-35 Australian woo) sales. The va’ues were approximate’y twenty per cent, below those ruing Ja-I May, but they 'were on a par wii: those of the opening sales of the 1933-34 season. Faulty descriptions of wcol declined by twenty-five per cent. The mar ket was fairly animated for gizni combings, for 'which Bradford buyers bid strongly. Japan, Franco and th>Australian mills also provided go'od competition, but Germany and Italy were very (pi et. The offerings tola'led 9154 bales being somewhat inferior to those, sub niitled at the .193;; opening sales.
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Grey River Argus, 21 August 1934, Page 5
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