WOOL PRICES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20343, 16 September 1931, Page 6

WOOL PRICES.

COMPARISON OF AVERAGES. A summary of the Australian, and New Zealand averages as compiled by Dalgoty and Co., Ltd., for a number of seasons past illustrates the fluctuation in pastoral results. The 1024-25 average was a record one, but since that time there have been some drastic changes in the position of values:—

In tho post ten years the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has paid rewards for 100,000 pairs of hawks' feet, according to ngurea quoted at a recent meeting of the Society by tho secretary. The war against the pests in the past lour and a half years had been particularly active, it was explained, ft sum of £l6oß'having been paid for 60,000 pan's of feet. The rat© of increase was alarming, said the secretary, but tho reduction of the reward from 9d to 6d a pair as from July 3lsb last had lia<] a elight checking effect. Ho wanted to know whether the payments should bo continued, and was told by thffl president that they tnust destroy the vermin. Tho president pointed out that the war against hawks in the Dominion had begun as far back as 1867,

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