DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 5 October 1934, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS

DUNEDIN WOOL SALE. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN. October 4. A supplementary sale of crutchings and oddments was held to-day when a total offering of approximately 1,150 bales was submitted to a fair attendance of buyers. The bulk of the offering was crutchings, and a small quan titv of fleece wool catalogue! was *.»f the straggler variety. Competition was restricted to comparatively a few buyers, but there were orders in the market on export account, and crutchings sold at prices which, in face of the present position of the wool market, must lie considered fair value. Local mills competed freely for fine crutchings, and also for any lines of halfbred fleece wool, and one lot of newly-shorn halfbred wethers wool brought 13 4 d. Following is the range of prices for crutchings: Halfbred crutchings, good to super, 6d to 7}d; low to medium, 4d to 5Zd. Crossbred crutchings. good tG super, 4]d to s]d: low to medium, 3d to 4d; inferior and seedy. 2]d to 3d. FURTHER DELAY. WELLINGTON, October 4. The period within which the Dairy Industry Commission shall report has been further extended to October 15, states a notice in the Gazette issued to-night. AUCKLAND. October 4. Mad with thirst and hunger, a de horned steer, one of those which got loose when an empty train crashed into cattle trucks at Newmarket on Tuesday night, has sought refuge in The bush in the Auckland Domain, after a hectic journey across the city. Daylight found the animal in Freeman’s Bay. where it charged several pedestrians. A man in a motor truck tried to drive it along the waterfront, and after it had charged the lorry, it was kept on the run. Near the railway yards, it charged a workman with a

wheelbarrow, and continuing, charged a girl, whom it missed by inches. She tainted, but luckily the beast’s rush carried it past her, and it crashed headlong into a telegraph pole. It wa> temporarily dazed, and before it recovered, the girl was picked up and carried to safety. Despite efforts to head it into the railway yards, the steer found its way into the bush behind Carlaw Park.