AUCKLAND WOOL SALE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26319, 13 January 1951, Page 8

AUCKLAND WOOL SALE

FIRST DAY TODAY HIGHER AVERAGE PRICE POSSIBLE (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 12. The second main wool sale of the Auckland season will begin to-morrow morning, and will be continued on Tuesday. Guessing at wool prices is shunned by most experts, but some official opinion is that the average price a pound may be higher than at the November sale, when about 34,500 bales realised some £4,500,000. The offering at the sale beginning tomorrow will be 45,282 bales of greasy wool tand 433 bales of slipe and scoured wool. A full bench of buyers is expected for to-morrow's sale, beginning at 8.30 a.m., when 23,752 bales of the greasy wool will be offered. This is unlikely to be sold until late in the day, and the remaining 21.530 bales of greasy wool will be auctioned on Tuesday. The slipe wool and scoured oddments will be spread over the two days. "The condition of the wool for this sale is very good,” said Mr H. Duke, chairman of the Auckland Wool Brokers’ Association, to-day. "Comparing it with the January sale last year, I would say the showing is better. ■

There is a fair proportion of hogget wool, and also ewe and wether wools. The hogget is fairly fine, about 52’s, and most of the ewe wool 48 to 50’s, with some a little coarser. There is not a big proportion of lambs' wool."