NAPIER WOOL SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1304, 6 December 1911, Page 10

NAPIER WOOL SALES.

SUCCESSFUL RESULTS. At the Napier -wool sales last, w.eek prices exceeded sellers' expectations, in some cases to the,extent of 2d. per lb. Ton price of .the sale was reached for 19 bales halfbred solci on aceount of the estate of the late W. H. Small, '-Fernside, Otanc, which realised lljd. per lb. The following clips al>o sold well, viz..— Mr. G. IJ. Beamish, Whana Whana, fino crossbred, to 10}<!.; Mr. A. IJobottom, Otane, fine crossbred, to 10d.; Mr. A. A. Small, Okuhu, fine, crossbred, to lOJtl. The whole of tbeso clips were dipped in White's dip. Tho maker of this prepaiMtion does not claim that the above successful results were directly and totally attributable to the fact that White's dip was u-sed ou the flocks. "What ho dims say h: 'That a man who has tho ability to put a high-class clip on tho market does not leave anything to chance, and.-whcii be selects his dip ho gees far the very best.that can be procured. Farther information cbout this preparation oan be obtained direct from the manufacturer, William White, Otono H. 8., or Us n.gents.—Advr.

Mr. J. H. SeHars, the ' well-known Berkshire pig fancier of Okaian-a, who won • several first prizes and the cham-pionships-with a-fine sow, has sent thi.v champion, together with another prizewinner, across to Sydney, through the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., to compete at the Sydney Royal Metropolitan Show.

The flocks in the back country in Canterbury appear to have come through a , most trying ordeul (says nn c.\changc)i the owes being in poor condition, and the death-rate having been heavy. Runholders have also suflered severe losses among their (locks of late, as a result of the depredations of the saddle-back seagull and kca, and these birds of prey are in evidence in an unusually large number. Tho seagull preys mainly on sheep that hare l>ceii, cost, picking their ■ eves out and killinj tbo lamb?, while the kcas attack the wethers and hoggets that are in good condition, lien.have been specially enjplovcd for tho purpose of shooting the keas, but owing fo .their cunning inf.tincts. it is very difficult to. get rdthin gunshot , of the iieita-