WELLINGTON WOOL SALE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 84, 8 April 1936, Page 11

WELLINGTON WOOL SALE

AGENTS’ REPORTS. Levin and Co. report: The li:th sale of the season was held to-day, 28,066 bales being offered. Our catalogue represented 6865 bales. ’1 he entry was largely composed of lopmaking wools. There were a few goodstyle clips and also some average halfbreds and Merino. Competition was strong and animated and well distributed. Halfbreds were on a par with March, fine good-style emssbred showed no change but average crossbreds were }d to LI down due m a degree to lack of style compared with earlier sales. Good lambs sold at late rales but inferior were. rather neglected. Bellies, pieces and locks showed more combination and eased jd to Ui. Crutchings were uot up in quality to past offerings but sold relatively well. The season has gone through with little variation in prices. J’rices have not been too high, particularly when exchange is taken into account, to prevent the wool going into consumption rapidly, and will leave the next season’s operations to open in a sound position. Owing to the general uplift in all qualities and grades the returns this year for the Dominion through the auctions will be over £9,100,000 against £4,401,011 last year. Over 700,000 bales will have been sold against 471,512 the previous year. Wellington will have sold approximately 138,000 bales. Our own individual sales have totalled the satisfactory figure of 34,500 bales —a record quantity and equal to one-fourth of the total sales in this centre. We have to thank our growers for their support. It is the highest total of any individual broker at any centre in the Dominion. It is pleasing to think that stores will now be free from the incubus of held-over wools.