WOOL PRICES

Grey River Argus, 28 May 1935, Page 6

WOOL PRICES

HIGHER AT SYDNEY. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 27,, at 8.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, Mar 27. At to-day’s wool sales, ]ft.24O bales were offered), and 9.550 were fold, also (\l>s4 bales were sold privately. There was very keen and widespread com petition. Prices rose five per cent, above the closing rates last week for all descriptions. Japanese, French, German and Bradford buyers were the principal operawith support from the local mills. Greasy merino sold to 29d. The average price last week was £l3 15s lid per bale or 11.1 pence per pound.

dress contains the post-office box number or not, the sorters always know when a letter should go to one of these boxes.

As the piles in the pigeon-holes increase, they are neatly tied into bundles to be dropped into the mail bags placed in clusters, labelled in large type with their ultimate destination. This description was taken at a rush time, but lhe work goes on steadily all day. for there is no end to the stream of postal packets coming into the office. The story is told of a temporary assistant who was employed in the busv season to clear postal boxes in one of our city areas. An official seeing the stranger doing this work remarked, in a friendly way, “How are you getting on with your job?’’ “Oh,” replied the temporary hand dolefullv, “I have been trying to get this blanky box cleared for two days, and T haven ’1; emptied it yeti”