EXPORTS OF WOOL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 18 March 1936, Page 4

EXPORTS OF WOOL

CLIP SOLD RAPIDLY. PURCHASES BY RUSSIA. The wool clip in all primary producing countries has been sold more rapidly than usual this season, according to a report from Winchcombe, Carson, Limited, Sydney. Values have not suffered through the large quantities marketed. During the offseason, mills abroad will be using stocks with little opportunity for replacement and this scarcity should assure a ready inquiry for next season's clip. From July 1 last year to January 31 the exports of wool from Australia totalled 1,698,181 hales, an increase of 237,716 bales compared with the similar period of the preceding season. The increased shipments were due to the Jarger sales made. The most important feature of the exports is the increase of 163,264 bales in the exports to Japan. increases are also shown by the United States, 30,431 bales; France, 27,450 bales; Czechoslovakia, 16,497 bales; Foland, 11,080 bales; the Netherlands, 10,170 bales.

Shipments to Russia appear on the list after an absence since 1929-30, when 17,876 bales were exported _ to that quarter. During the 1927-28 season Russia took 37,875 hales from Australia, and 1928-29 57,328 bales, For some years, however, the Soviet Union has been buying small quantities of treated and skin wool in England, purchasing 330,0001 bin that quarter during 1935. With the industrialisation of the country, and the improved equipment for textile manufacturing, the use of woollen goods is likely to expand considerably. Merino sheep are pastured in southern Russia. The wool is fine, but lacks the elasticity of the Australian product, being of thin, wefty type. It is possible. therefore, that Russian purchasing in Australia will increase. Board of Trade returns show that the United Kingdom exported 55,913.0001 b of tops in 1935. an increase of 14,167,0001 b on the 1934 total. Germany took 17.302,0001 b, being 9,186,0001 b. more than a year before. Exports of worsted yarns were 33.091,0001 b, a decrease of 1,041,0001 b. Shipments of woollen and worsted fabrics totalled 109.900 000 square yards totalled 109.900.000 square yards, an increase of 7.698.000 square yards, and l>e in g 28,068.000 souare yards higher than in the 1932 depression year. Japan has been a remarkably active buyer of wool. It. is worthy of note that, during last season Great Britain exported 3 262.000 square yards of worsteds tn Japanese buyers, an increase of 1.299.000 square yards on the 1934 quantity. In addition to manufactures, ihe United Kingdom exported considerably larger quantities of home-grown wool, treated and skin wool, noils, and waste. The quantity of imported wool retained in the oountrv for the 12 months was 605.096,00011>, being 1 6,108 000*1) more than a year before. The latter, however, was a light importing period. The retained wool imports in 1935 were only 5.0Q0.0C01b more than the 1933 and'l932 totals, and consumption has been much heavier on export and internal business than at that time.