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Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 317, 22 August 1924, Page 5

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AUSTRALIAN PRODTTE. By Electric Cable—Copyright. &ust. and IN.a. uaoie association. Sydney. Aug. 21. Oats, Tasmanian. Algerian 4s Id to -Is .‘ld, White (Pants. -Is fid to -Is 9d. .Maize. Yellow, -h, white -Is 2d. Potatoes, Tasmanian, L'7 10s to £8 10s. Victorian L’fi. Onions Victorian, £' Ifi to £ I fi. Adelaide, oats 4s. TTIE CIH’TCTTINC SALE. THE LANCE OF PRICES. (Per Press Association). Wellington, Aug. 21. At the, last erntellings sale of the season held to-day, the total offering was 2940 hales. Several small parcels of fleece wool were in evidence, hut not in suili'eiont quantity to warrant special atention. There was* keen competition for good fleece wool, lint ('ontinenetal sorts were not s*'* much in demand. There were special orders from. Japan for line sorts of crutchings, hut Jess demand for coarse grades. Local scourers were operating for heavy-conditioned wool, locks, hollies and pieces. Hal Hired crutchings sold at lfis t () lfijil. s uper crossbreds lod to Ififd, the bulk at 13d to 14d. Prices wen- lower by Id to f id on June sale quotations. Lambs’ crutchings made ’l4.\d, line crossbred 18-Jd to 2fii<l, crossbred (medium and coarse) lid lo 19d • pieces and hollies Hid to 18“ d ; locks, stained pieces, 7d Lo 91(1, enitehings. superior I4d to Ifid, hnlfhred Ltd (<■> LHld, medium 12d lo led, seedy 7d *-’ 11 cl, lambs Old to 21 Id. den 7-J-d fco Ifijd. N.Z. FARMERS’ CO-OP. REPORT, (By Telegraph- Special to Star). Wellington, Aug. 22. The N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Co, report that the second cmtrhihg sale, which marks the termination of the 1924-24 wool season was held in Wellington yesterday. Our catalogue comprised 31 o hales consisting mainly of enitehings. Thun* was the usual number of buyers i" attendance and competition was fairly keen, although realisations wen* hardly up to, those ruling at th«* erutehing sale held in June last. Belter sorts were fully a. penny dow«. and in some eases more. But th** average erutehing free from see/* s howed very little change. Any lot® carrying seed were hard to quit, and were mostly passed in. The market for crutchings throughout the whole sale was exceedingly Regular. The following are some of our hes* prices: JH/Beaumont, enitehings. 13d; PA/Hiwi, enitehings, 12i*d’ GML/Tiriroa, 13-Jd ; Lochabef, crunchings!, 12d ; 311/Beaumont, S.D crutchings, llfd; Eli A, pieces oud dead, 13d; RPL ernitcbiiigs and dead, 12d.

DALOETY’S REPORT

Dnlgety ami Co. report: .At the second crutching sale, wo oii'ored 606 bales, 90 per cent, being sold under the hammer. Ibices generally l'o>all qualities of crntehings receded. *>;: eohipared with last sale, Id to lid per lb. Fleece wool maintained late, rates. Crntehings generally were in heavier condition than in July. The principal operators were Japanese and Australian, buyers being only interested in lower sorts. Lambs’ wool commanded keen competition at late sale rates. .Slipe wools, of which we offered 100 bales, were keenly competed for, Australian and Japanese operators being the chief operators. The rates paid, when compared with London prices were most satisfaettory.

LEVIN AND CO.’S REPORT

There was a good demand from local scourers for locks, bellies and pieces at last sale prices. We quote: Lambs erutellings, 13} dp crossbred, fine, 18id to 25}d; crossbred merino, coarse, lid to 19d; pieces and bellies, 8 \(1 to 182<1; locks and stained pieces, 7d to 9-Id; crntehings, ctiperior, 14-el to 16d; hall'bred, 1.4(1 to 18}d; medium good, 12d to 15d; seedy and inferior, 7d to 11 id; lambs, to 21Ad ; dead, I\(\ to 15 |d.