DOMINION WOOL TRADE
DECREASED SALES AND EXPORTS During April 139,691 bales of wool were offered at auction in New Zealand, of which 128,762 bales were sold. For the 10 months of the 1937-38 season to April 28, offerings of wool in the Dominion totalled 708.86.3 bales, of which 631,007 bales were sold. According to the returns compiled by Dalgety and Co., Ltd., offerings and sales of wool for the ten months’ period of the last two seasons compare as follow:
Shipments of wool from New Zealand last month totalled 109.749 bales, of which 98,015 bales were greasy and 11.734 bales slipc and scoured. Exports of wool for the ten months ended April 28 totalled 618,825 bales, compared with 716,141 bales. Details of the exports for the ten months’ period of 1936-37 and 1937-38 compare as follow:
paic tua ivnuw . 1937-38 1936-37. Offered. Sold. Offered. Sold. Bales. Bales. Bales. Bales. Invercargill .. 47,871 45,264 45,023 44,83'1 Dunedin 103,514 95,024 103,635 102,94H Timaru 40.143 38.417 42.047 41. >71 Christchurch 105,234 91,868 101,925 loo,7uo 51 .’1 182 180 Wellington .. 122,670 108,0> 1 126.0.85 124.T'fi Wanganui ... 77,717 66.026 70.704 70,548 Napier 105,642 98 3'1 112.116 111.8'4 G.’.diornp .... '.’,328 1,974 5,300 5.174 Auckland .... 103.695 86,001 79,133 78,797 708.865 631,007 686,150 681,218
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 11
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