AUCKLAND WOOL SALE.
AVERAGE PRICI? OF Bd. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Jan. 24. A decline of approximately Lid lb on prices paid at the first wool sale of the season held in Auckland last November occurred at the second Auckland sale to-day. There was a full bench of buyers and bidding was brisk, but not spectacular. The average price was estimated at about 8d lb, or £ll 13s 4d a bale. The clearance was approximately So per cent, of the offering of 24,000 bales, and on ibis basis tbo return to growers is estimated at about £240,000. The average price at the first Auckland sale of the season was 9.76 d lb or £l4 2s lid a bale, and the return was £399,896. Top price at the sale was 14£d a lb for seven bales of Corriedale AA grown hv the late Mr T. L. Vining, Mangntnngi. Air Vining’s death occurred this”week. Attractive prices were also realised by the remainder of the clip. The range of prices appeared in the last edition' of the “Standard” yesterday.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 11
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176AUCKLAND WOOL SALE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 11
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