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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21717, 26 February 1936, Page 20

AUCTIONS. H. MATSON" AND CO•yyHAT WILL 1936 BRING? An English wool correspondent offers a monthly forecast‘for the present year. JANUARY: The first of the month —hot the second, as might have been expected—will mark the opening of the year. There will be some wool sales in London, and such large crowds will be arxious to attend that special police tyill be called out to control the queues. Contrary to anticipations, the only buyer will be France, where a political crisis and a departure from gold will be hourly expected. On the Bradford market there will be grave apprehensions of a slump, and there will be considerable indulgence in the practice of reading between the lines in order to prove that a rise really means a fall FEBRUARY: An Italian scientist will discover a means of feeding cows so that finished yarn will be obtained from them at milking time, instead of milk. This will be looked upon as an event of tremendous importance, and the Duce will show in an eloquent speech thar it marks another forward movement in Italy’s imperial destiny. Attention will be. focused on the phenomenon that the month will contain an extra day, and a formula will be agreed upon to the effect that it has been inserted for the special purpose of confounding the statisticians. MARCH: There will be a strike of pigs in Italy in an attempt to enforce a demand for skim milk. They will march on Rome. As a result cows will resort to their normal diet and dairymaids will replace spinners on the milking stool. The price of wool will advance and an original thinker on the Bradford market will proclaim that the movement is coming from the wrong end. APRIL: Bradford will decide to buy some wool in the primary markets, thus reversing the policy of abstention pursued during the earlier part of the season. There will be considerable indignation in the London press that England has, during the season, only bought nineteen bales in Australia, while 2,327,123 bales have been shipped to Japan; and a member of Parliament will draw attention to the need for placing the industry under Government control. The President of U.S.A. will announce his intention of buying all the tin in the world in order to raise commodity prices. France will be faced with a political crisis, and fears of the abandonment of the gold standard will be entertained. MAY; A German doctor of chemistry will discover a method of converting mushrooms into overcoats without first spinning them into yarn. A correspondent who has seen the coats will announce that they are superior to wool, both in appearance and durability. Prices of tops will thereupon fall in Bradford, and there will be predictions of a slump. The rumour that several bags of 70’s had been sold will not be treated seriously. English clip prospects—nil. JUNE: Country buyers will confirm the reports that the reduction of locks noticed during recent years has proceeded to such an extent that the English clip has entirely disappeared.. This will be attributed to fears on the part of farmers that the Minister for Agriculture intends to set up a Sheep Board. Rather than fill in any more forms they have, slaughtered all their sheep and concentrated on radishes. JULY: France will be faced with a new political crisis and it will be uncertain whether she will Jae able to remain on gold. An American banker will extol the virtues of Free Trade and the President will announce his intention of buying all the world’s copper iii order to raise commodity prices. Experts will see in these two speeches a speedy approach of currency stabilisation and the entry of the Eagle into the Geneva dovecot. 1 LIXIT 1 1 I “LIX-ALL” LICKS - and is particularly beneficial to I the flock during all seasons of the I year. It assists in the ..digestion. I A healthy ewe flock means a 1 greater percentage of lambs. 1 LIXIT is always worth the money because it means a better muster an 4 a bigger and more attractive clip. The cost in comparison with the quality of the product is unquestionably low. Packed in 501b cartons and available everywhere, 1 ! N.Z. DISTRIBUTORS. 1 1 H. MATSON & CO. I AUGUST; Holidays. Many English professors will prove the futility of building castles of sand. SEPTEMBER: Estimates of the world’s wool clip will be made, together with the announcement that Japan will require at least five million bales, Germany, with mushrooms and other wool substitutes, will require nothing. France will be just approaching a political crisis. America will be facing the presidential election. At whatever price wool sells, England will not be able to pay it; so Japan will probably have a clear field and will take the lot. OCTOBER: A Bradford topmaker will buy quite a number of bales in Sydney, and the rumour that a spinner is enquiring for tops will cause a flutter on the market A report in one of the more hysterical London papers that, as Japan fcas imported 40 sheep and a ram into Manchukuo, her appearance as a buyer in Australia and else where will be only spasmodic in the future, will not be received with the seriousness it deservesNOVEMBER: A Lowestoft ex-traw-ler captain will discover a method of spinning carpet yarns from herrings; the fish trade and the wool industry will thereby be again revolutionised. An important Continental country , will be expected hourly to abandon the gold standard. A spinner will receive the first particulars against contracts which have cvne to hand since March DECEMBER: The trade will wait for Christmas for the first three weeks and will spend the last getting up courage to meet the bank managers. The London wool sales will open firm, harden gradually throughout the series, and close 5 per cent. lower than the opening. This miracle will be attributed to the appearance of several lots of old wool in some of the dosing catalogues. .