CRUTCHING SALE
Spirited Bidding In Napier FLEECE PRICES ADVANCE By Telegraph—Press Association. HASTINGS, July 28. Prices were flrm on recent quotations at the winter sale of crutchings and oddments of wool held in Napier this afternoon. A large and representative bench of buyers attended and spirited bidding was experienced throughout. Some 3200 bales were offered, the majority being sold under the hammer. Buying was well distributed among Australia, Bradford and the Continent. New Zealand representatives were comparatively quiet. The bulk of the crutchings was rather shorter and a shade finer than at last year’s clearing sale, but the general condition was much the same.
A few lines of fleece also sold well; in some cases prices were 2d. to 3d. higher than at the close of the last selling season. The range of prices is
d. d. Supers .. ... 10 to ni ... SJ to 9i Average ... 8 to 8i to Light seedy .. 8i to 9i .. 6} to Heavy seedy ...... ... 44 to 6 Good crossbred e a J-** to 134 ... 10 to lli Inferior .......... .. 7i to 9
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 13
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175CRUTCHING SALE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 13
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