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WOOL CLIP OF AUSTRALASIA.

The Insurance and Banking Record for March points out that although the Australasian wool clip has increased fronl 1,395,000 bales in 1888-89 to, say, 1,870,000 bales in 1896-97, its value is about £1,000,000 less. The increase in quantity is about 475,000 bales, or 34 per cent., bub for this increased quantity we obtain 5 por cent, loss monev. At tho prices of only eight years ago the present clip would have been worth £8,400,000 more than it is likely to realise. This is what a drop from £16 a Ijalo to £11 10s a bale means to the pastoral

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10405, 1 April 1897, Page 5

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WOOL CLIP OF AUSTRALASIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10405, 1 April 1897, Page 5

WOOL CLIP OF AUSTRALASIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10405, 1 April 1897, Page 5