Commercial.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5703, 22 April 1911, Page 1

Commercial.

Wool. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., Sydney, in their annual report on the wool trade, complain of unattractive getup of clips, causing a hesitancy on the part of buyers. Burr was also re sponsible for low prices. The season was remarkable for the run on fine merinos. Wools that hung fire were short faulty clips. France and Qer many were Australia’s chief customers for wool. The report further statos : —Our trade with the East is as ye t practically confined to Japan. A few small orders have been executed for China, but that country’s share in the wool clip of Australia is at present insignificant. Meanwhile Japan is widening the character of her trade. She paid the season’s record price for merinos at the Sydney sales. The wool purchased included merino fleece at 16fd. American buyers have been disappointing. The purchase dwindled down from 25,000 bales and 27,000 bales for the past two seasons to 5000 bales for the season just finished. Dalgety’s table of wool exports for the nine months ended 31st March are as follows 1910-11. 1909-10. Bales. Bales. Commonwealth ... 1,782,632 1,745,640 New Zealand ... 422,461 447,168 2,205,093 2,192,808 This shows an increased total export of 12,285 bales.