N.Z. OCOL CLIP
A Remarkable Clearance. SALES AND EXPORTS The remarkable clearance of wool made during the 1936-37 season is shown in the latest returns covering the eleven months ended May 28, j compiled by Dalgety and Co., Ltd.; During that period 686,778 bales were • offered, of which 681,876 bales, or, 99.286 per cent., were sold. DuTing j May, 628 bales were offered and sold. ] The figures for the eleven months | of the last two seasons compare as ; follows:
Last season’s offerings for the' eleven months exceeded those for | 1936-37 by 99,533 bales, and the sales: by 72,100 bales. Last season’s sales. represented 95.887 per cent, of the 1 total offerings, compared with a clearance of 99.286 per cent, for the eleven months of 1936-37. Exports of wool last month totalled ' 74,277 bales, of which 50,202 bales: were greasy wool and 24,075 bales scoured and slipe. Exports of wool for the eleven months ended May 28 were 790,418 bales, compared with 892,268 bales for the corresponding period of last season, a decrease of 101,850 bales. The figures in detail compare as follows: 1936-37 1935-36
g 11 Month to May 28. 1936-37 1935-36 Offered. Sold. Offered. Sold. Bales. Bales. Bales. Bales, j Inxercargill .. 45,023 44,830 51,294 50,599 I Dunedin .. .. 103,635 102,948 118,318 114,253 1 Timaru .. .. 42,141 41,965 43.638 41,011 Christchurch . 102.069 100,844 99,729 96,641 Blenheim.. .. 182 180 166 161 Wellington .. 126,181 124,492 155,912 145,633 | Wanganui .. 70,704 70,548 92,622 89,437 I Napier .. .. 112,125 111,813 130,903 126,635 Gisborne .. .. 5,401 5,275 2,371 2.177 Auckland .. 79,317 78,981 91,358 87,429 686,778 681,876 786,311 753,976
Bales. Bales. Invercargill 50,222 66.606 Dunedin 96,898 104,671 Oamaru 2,027 2,813 Timaru 45,016 49,597 Christchurch 110,859 111.266 Blenheim 4,906 4,776 Nelson 487 1.267 Welington 153,457 190,257 Wanganui 74,107 84,187 New Plymouth, Waitara 2,057 2,520 Napier. Waikokopu 129,777 139,985 Gisborne, Tokomaru Bay 30,230 35,106 Auckland, Opua 90,375 99,217 Total 790,418 892,268
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19370609.2.116
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 11
Word Count
308N.Z. OCOL CLIP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 11
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.