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Evening Star, Issue 18141, 4 December 1922, Page 2

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AUCKLAND WOOL SALE. LATE RATES SUSTAINED. The combined offerings amounted to 11,516 bales, as compared with 8,749 bales at the opening sale of Oast season. TUo sale was ono of the most, satisfactory over held in Auckland, 99 per cent, of the Offering having been sold at auction. The prices realised demonstrated that growers who sell locally aro receiving more satisfactory returns than those who ship. Prices : Half-bred?.—Sapor,, 20d fo 2Phi; average, 17d to 19di; inferior, 13d' to 15d. Pino Cross-bred.—Super., 13Jet to 17£d; average, to 13d; inferior, 9d to lOd. Medium Cross-bred.—Super., lid to 15Jd; average, Bpi to Dpi; inferior, 6Jd to 7Jd. Coarse CroSs-bred.—Super., 7p! to Bjd; average, to 7^d; inferior, 6d to 7d. Low Cross-bred. —Average, 6d to 6J.d; inferior, 5d to 5 jd. Hoggets. —Super., 12d to 14d ; medium, 9pl fo lid; inferior, 7d' to S^d. Lambs. —Pino, 12£-tl to 13|d; medium, 9d to 12d:; seedy and inferior, 3jd to 6pi. Crutchings.—Medium to good, 4d to sd; geedy and inferior, 2£d to 3jd. Bellies and Pieces. —Good to super., Sd to 7-d; low to medium, 3d to 41d; locks, 2d to 2£d. LONDON WOOL SALES. LONDON, December 1. At tho wool sales there was a moderate selection. Greasy merinos met with good, general competition for best lots in all classes, hut faulty and sooureds were still irrcguloj. —A. and K.Z. Cable. THE WHEAT’ MARKET. LONDON, December 5. Wheat cargoes are quiet, in view of the liberal world shipments.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON SHARE MARKET. LONDON, December 1. Waihi Shares.—Buyers, 34s 4d; sellers, 35s 7d. Waihi Grand Junctions. —Buyers, 10s 4d; sellers, 11s Id. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE MEAT MARKET. LONDON, December 1. Sheep: New Zealand owes, 6Jd; Australian firsts, 7^d. Lamb: Canterbury—light 11 |d, medium llgd. seconds lid; 'Southland, North. Island—selected llfd (no ordinary offering) ; Australian--good average quality lid, f.a.q. lOd ; South Americanlight llpl, heavy lOd. Frozen iboof: New Zealand—fores s|d-, hinds 4pl; Australian —crops 5Jd, hinds 4^-d; Argentine.—fores 3ijd, hinda 4|d; Uruguayan—-fares a-jd, hinds 4jd ; chilled Argentine----tores 4£d, hinds 6pl; ‘Uruguayan—fores 4pl, hinds sadj other meals unchanged.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE HOME MARKETS, LONDON, December 1. Aiming and Co.’s circular states that 3,004 bundles -of lajdut-skins were offered and 1,959 sold. Best thm-peiled winters realised 5 to 10 per cent, above September rates. Second winters and etoutpeltod and hatters’ pulling sorts generally were 10 per cent. down. Low grades and umpulled sorts advanced on an average, of 50 per cent. Tallow stocks, 3,778 casks; imports during November, 2,529 casks; deliveries, 4,400 casks. Hour Licht, of Magdeburg, estimates tho European beet sugar production for tho 1922-25 campaign at 4,775,500 tons. Tho first mouth’s production is 170,380 tons. Cotton: Liverpool quotations for American middling upland, January delivery, 14.03 d per lb. Rubber: Fine hard para, 13|d per lb ; plantation first latex crape, 14d; smoked ribbed sheet, 14gd. Jute: Native first marks, Deoemb&rJanuary shipment, £36 10s per ion. New Zealand hemp: November-January shipment, £52 per ton. Copra: South Sea bagged, DecemberJanuary shipment, £24 2s 6d per ton. Linseed oil, £3B 10s per ton, equal to 3s Id per gallon. Tinpcntine, £5 8s scl per cwt, equal to 6s B;Jd per gallon.