SYDNEY WOOL SALES

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 5

SYDNEY WOOL SALES

THE -SEASON’S TURNOVER INTERESTING REVIEW Though wool values, wore or low levels, during the currency of the season., the staple has always been saleable (says tli c Sydney Morning Herald), Many other primary products have not been as well situated in that respect. From the opening of the Sydney sales in September up to Thursday, March 2. 875,850 bales were catalogued, of which 02 per cent, were soli! at auction. The turnover from July 1 to date on the market, including auction and pri\ate sales totals 904,015 hales, compared with the following figures for prr<-q.ling seasons during same per? ir.l: 1020-30, 751.314 hales: 1028-20, 004.015 bales: 1927-28, 1.003.877 baits: 1020-27. 084,111 bales. Onjy about 80.000 hales are now in Sydney stores awaiting sale, compared with 280.704 bales at the. same date a year ago. The sale of the Rockvale elips from Armidale at a record price this .season drew attention to the extreme prices speciality lines make when .orders are about: for wool of that highclass type. The clip showed exlreme.]y fine qualify, regularity in length and decided lightness in condition. Last season’s clip off tho same proper!) was sold lit May. and t lie figtit es, below show the prices obtained for.il at that time, and last month : May March 1930 1931 Wethers ... ... .... 351 31 j Wethers 2ft.. 25 Ewes 33$ 2.7 Ewes 27 225 Hoggets 31 23 Broken ... 17i .10} Bellies 13 13 The Kyle clip from Manikin, on the southern highlands, offered last month, provided an unusual saleroom experience. The wool was catalogued in the comeback section, and was well-grown, attractive, bright in colon i- and soft, handling. It comprised 23 large lots, the whole ,of which, except t one lot of locks, were purchased by a French buyer, at prices ranging up to 17d for fleece, pieces 153(1. and bellies 12J<1, The salt to one purchaser of almost the whole of a clip containing so many lots is an auction room rarity.