RETURNS ON WOOL
BIG INCREASE SHOWN FOR YEAR ENDED JUNE 30 LAST. GREATER QUANTITY & HIGHER PRICES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 17. Dominion wool appraisals or sales for the year ended June 30, 1943, realised £16,802,780 or £2,304,228 more than for the year to June 30, 1942. These and other returns were compiled by Dalgety’s Statistical Department. The quantity of the wool was larger by 7,892 bales, totalling £834,651. The value per bale was £2O 2s Bd, against £l7 10s 9d. The prices per lb were 13.95 d, compared with 12.25 d. Bales averaged 3461 b and 3431 b respectively. In addition to these sales, which were of greasy wool, 115,946 bales of slipe or freezing works wool was sold, accounting for £3,075,855, so that the total realised for all wools approximated £20,000,000. The exact figure was £19,878,635 14s 7d, averaging £2O 18s 3d per bale, or 14.57 d per lb. Of ?34,651 bales of greasy wool sold, 501,110 were contributed by the North Island. Wool carried over at June 30 amounted to 19,636 bales of greasy, and the production for the past season was 962,359 bales.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 4
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187RETURNS ON WOOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 4
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