THE WOOL SEASON.
AVERAGE VALUE'S PER BALE
One of the outstanding features of the past wool season wias the higher average of prices secured, at practically all selling centres, and the appended table, which gives the number of bales sold at each centre and the average price realised per bale, will prove interesting:— Average Bales per bale, sold. £ s. d. Auckland 05,952 . .14 3 10 Gisborne 2,597 10 11 8 Napier ....... 79,411 14 0 7 Wanganui .... 50,825 14 .10 9 Wellington ... .112,510 15 3 5] Christchurch .. 64,587 29 7 1! Timaru '. 26,022 19 1 0 Dunedin ...... 60,261 18 17 10 Invercargill .. 22,382 15 6 0 The South Island averages are better than those of the North Island, and the Wellington average is the best in the North Island. The average values per bale are in almost all cases substantially better than in pre-war days. According to Messrs Dalgety and Co.'s last wool review the average prices per bale for the entire clip of Australia ami New Zealand in each of the five seasons prior to the war were as follows :— £ s. d. 1913-14 .13 4 11 1912-13 13 13 1 1911-1:? 11 15 r, 1910-11 12 10 4 1909-10 13 12 2 Except at Gisborne, where the offering Avas limited, the average prices last season exceeded the pre-war averages. The gross value of the wool sold at each of the centres during the past season is given in the table appended: Bales Gross value, sold. £ s. d. Auckland . 38,952 552,893 8 5 Gisborne . 2,597 27.481 IS (J Napier ... 79.411 1,114.050 8 5 Wanganui 50,82") 731.028 1 0 Wellington 112,510 1,707,013 7 05 284.295 4,132,373 3 105 Christchurch (54,587 1,250.185 12 2 Timaru ... 2'!,022 490.183 910 Dunedin .. »Jo.2fil 1,138.000 (i 2 ißvei'cnrgill 22.382 342.395 19 4 17.".,252 3,227,3(55 7 (5
TtJ. for N.Z. 457,547 7,309,738 11 45 Wellington i-' easily the leading woolselling centre of New Zealand, and in th'? past season practically one-fourth of the word sold was disposed of there, ami the aggregate money value of wool sold was nearly half a million more than in Christchurch, which, on account of the finer quality of the wool sold, wn- able to distribute £1,250,185 12s 2d.
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Northern Advocate, 24 July 1923, Page 3
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366THE WOOL SEASON. Northern Advocate, 24 July 1923, Page 3
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