NAPIER WOOL SALE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 77, 13 January 1936, Page 7

NAPIER WOOL SALE

FIRM ON WELLINGTON RATES. GOOD CLEARANCE EFFECTED. (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, January 12. An excellent sale, with vendors very satisfied with the values ruling, was the result of the second offering of the season, when 30,400 bales of Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay wool were offered to a full bench of 1 buyers to-day. The extent to which vendors were satisfied with values may be judged from the fact that 99 per cent, of the catalogues offered changed hands under the hammer. * Values were fully firm on those ruling at the Wellington sale on Monday on all classes of fleece wools, while super lambs’ wool showed an advance of up to Id per lb on Wellington rates. Seedy and inforior lambs’ wool was from parity to slightly firmer. While the degree of improvement on ruling rates for crossbred at the December Napier sale was reported at the Wellington auction on Monday last, the general opinion among brokers and buyers to-day appeared to be that the the rates at the two sales were approximately at parity. While to-day’s sale produced actually stronger competition than at Wellington, there was actually no appreciable change in the values of fleece and piece wools, when December levels' were compared with those ruling to-day. Some degree of irregularity was seen at times in hogget wools in to-day’s offering, but a buyer explained this by stating that the proportion of back-country hogget wools offered' in the entry Were inclined to be slightly tender. Piece wools for the most part again sold remarkably well. Range of Values. The following is the official range of prices d. d.

Southdown — to 15 Super — Average 12 to 131 Fine Half bred, 56-58— Super 15 to 161 Average 13 to 141 Medium halfbred, 50/56 — 12.1 to 131 Super ... ... 1 Average • 11 to 12 Inferior ... 91 to 101 Extra Fine Crossbred, 48-50 — to 111 Super 101 Average 8f to 101 Inferior 71 to 81 Fin© Crossbred, 46-48 — to 101 Super 91 8 Average to 91 Inferior 7 to 72 Medium Crossbred, 44-46 — to 101 to 81 Super Average 91 71 Inferior 7 to 7-2 Coarse Crossbred, 40-44— to 9 to 72 Super Average 8 7 Inferior 61 to 7 Lincoln— to 9 Average to good ... 71 Hoggets— 52-56 10 to 131 48-50 ' 81 to 101 46-18 8 to 91 Lambs— to 131 48-50 11 46-48 10 to 12 Seedy and inferior 61 to 8 Necks— 91 8 to 11 to 9 Super Average Seedy and inferior 61 to 71 Pieces — 8 to 91 Good to super Low to medium ... 51 to 71 Bellies — 61 Good to super ... Low to medium ... lO i to 6 51 Crutchings— G2 to> 72 Good to super ... Low to medium ... 4 to 61 Locks ■ 4 to 52