WOOL BUSINESS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 35, 13 March 1930, Page 13

WOOL BUSINESS

OFFERED, SOLD, SHIPPEB Messrs Dalgety's returns of Wool offered and sold in the Dominion are of particular interest at the moment. For the mon^h of February 80,403 bales were offered, of which 67,568 bales were sold and tbe principal offerings and saies for tbe month of February: in the fonr centres were as follow : —

t There were 261 bales offered and #3old in Gisborne and Auckland during fcbe niontb. Taking tbe period of eight tnontbs. from 1st Julv to 28tb February, 1929-30, and 1928-29, tbe wool offered was as follows: —

Experts of wool during the month of February were 117,122 bales ,• for tbe eight months in review it was 369,755 bales, or 51,278 bales less than for tbe rorresponding period of 1928-29.

Bales Bales Offered. Sold. Christchurch 21,840 20,458 Invercargill ... 21,365 14,389 Dunedin ... 22,550 19,630 Timaru 14,431 12,874 '

1930. 1929. Centre Offered. Sold. Offered. Sold. Bales Bfllss Invercargill 21,365 14,389 25,258 23,185 Dunedin ... 44,503 39,779 52,431 49,746 Timaru ... 27,455 24,586 35,316. 32,324 Christchurch 62,951 58,858 68,075 64,508 Blenheim ... 47 31 123 81 Wellington 58,544 50,014 90,838 84,387 Wanganui 28,532 19,231 62,278 52,723 Napier ... 57,420 46,494 70,986 67,538 Gisborne ... 595 427 1,700 1,418 Auckland ... 39,199 31,272 51,528 50,186 340,611 285,081 458,533 426,096