LAST TO-MORROW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1936, Page 8

LAST TO-MORROW.

SEASON'S WOOL SALES. RECORD CATALOGUE OFFERED, BROKERS'. CAREFUL OPTIMISM Because of prices received for wool in other centres, the hopes of Auckland sheep farmers arc reasonably high for the linal sale of the season to be held in the Town Hall to-morrow. The catalogue to be offered is unusually In-fact, it is a record for Auckland.

'While brokers themselves expect*that prices will be about level with the second Auckland sale, and a little in advance of the' average for the last (Sale of a season, they do not expect any great advance, and farmers are adviseff to bear this in mind. The fact, .though, that farmers have taken the advice of their brokers and of buyers ill general, to have their wool expertly 'classed, uhduld, to say the least of it, have no detrimental effect on prices. Tins; is ntft the only sa'e in preparation for which growers have been inclined to seiul their wool to be classed by their brokers instead of doing it themselves, but a greater proportion has been so treated for this sale.

During the ■ week-end most of the buyers arrived from Napier. Somie of them gave the stores a cursory.examination late on Saturday, but the really hard work was done on Sunday.

And when buyers have been through a store, it looks as though It ha(£jj)eeii struck by a cyclone. Long yards of wool cascade everywhere. Bales .arc ripped open with careless abandon, for buyers want to be very sure of what they ire buying. There was even.Jtlie tale told of "one bale of wool years ago that was found to have been stuffed in the centre with grass. That, of course, is so rare that it 'is almost funny, v

Brokers' offices to-day have been besieged with clients seeking advice and Vriving instructions as to reserves and the thousand aiul one other details which make a brokers' (lay before the sale a truly full 24 hours. As a matter of fact, growers are not the only ones interested in a wool sale, and the gallery above the TowiT Hall concert chamber invariably. coiit&iiis a fair number, of laymen eager to share in the excitement of the bidding -and also to learn something of an industry on which certainly depends a large measure of the prosperity of the Dominion.