REDUCED RETURNS
AUCKLAND WOOL SALES COMPARATIVE FIGURES ' (Special to the Herftld.) x ' \i AUCKLAND, this day. r, '"On, Monday next approximately £2s6,opb,.']ess selling charges, will be distributed among Auckland wool growers as a residt of the sale on Monday last. Although it is a little early yet for an exadt estimate to be made regarding the average return for each bale at the sale, averages struck over" fairly representative offerings indicate that the figure should .'be, somewhere between £l6 and £l6 10s a bale, compared with an average price of £22 10s a bale at the first sale of last Beason. While the average price for each pound last season* at the first sale was lsid it is hot'likelythat.the.final figures this year will',' show, a return over ll 5 d a lb. ..Although some..buyers, in isolated . instances,^paid an average"of approxia bale Ifor special lines, there are others whose average purchases work out ddwn.as/Jow as £l2 a bale. One line of over 300; bale>, bought lor Japan, averaged £lB% bale,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17124, 3 December 1929, Page 7
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169REDUCED RETURNS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17124, 3 December 1929, Page 7
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