BRISK BIDDING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 December 1924, Page 4

BRISK BIDDING.

WOOL SALES. GOOD PRICES AT AUCSLANP. OPENING RATES MAINTAINED. LBY TEL.K{3RA.BH —Bit ESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Deo,; 5.: The Auckland wool sale was resumed this morning and concluded to-night. Bidding continued to be brisk, and. yesterday’s pi'icee were repeated.: "it 1 was evident from the nature of the bidding that a great niany of ' the prices 'paid went considerably beyond the liihjte -qf quite a number of buyers, Amd Bradford continued to get the lion’s share of the offerings.’ ' " ' •/ Nearly all the catalogue was sold, the only lots passed being where tellers placed what the buyers* considered -too high reserves on their ;.lots: Whefittfis was the case buyers would have none of it. . The attendance qf : the public was again large. . ' A remarkable evennete .of* bidding was evidenced throughout the sale. Ae ; an ,instance, a consecutive run' of2o ■lots of crossbred ranged from ;23d?tb ;26id. In another similar , page of: tifb [catalogue : the range was from 2IU -to ; 25Jd. Occasionally bidding took a sharp upward turn as a choice; Iqt of fiffe crossbred super ,or .CorriedaleWas offered, prices for these frequehtiy topping the 30d mark, i ' v

The aim of the optimisticvgro.werto realise 24d per pound for crossbreds was realised. Thfe ; . ayerage : prttes throughout the sale were maintained remarkably well. Experts estifiiatb the averap price per poiiitid to be from d.to 24Jd, making the average price per bale about £35, which was the figure set on the opening night of the sale. Coarser wools showed an advance of about rd per pound. _ The top prices to-day were 36}d for six bales of half bred, and 361 d for two bales of super halfbred. ; : : ? The range of prices at the saley compared with February last, is ?as . follows, the figures for February being A given in parentheses':. '-V ••?.* ?.* m Merino.—Average, 333 d to 35id (—). line halfbred.—Super, 253 to 28daverage, 32d to 34d (21d to 25d): inferior, —, (24£d te 29d). . ' Medium halfbred.—Average, 30d to ood ( —). Coarser halfbred.—Super: 30d to 34d (—); average. 27d to 29d (—). : n£ in f c^sbred.— Super, 28d to 29*d 1 average, 24d to 26d (17d to 18fd); inferior, 22d to 24d (15d to lota). ■ ' \ ; average, 23d to 24d i l6d inferior, ,‘2od to 22d (14d to 15d). ; ,

Coarse crossbred —Super, 23d,t0 25d (15d 16id): average, 21d to' '23d (14d to _ls£d); inferior,. 20d •to 21d (13d to 0iK n /i°o] crossbred —Average,: 20d to Hoggets,—Fine, 29d to 31d (21& to 25Jd ; medium, 26d to. 28d (183 to 20d • ™ ar f, 24d to - (15d to 16d); low 21d. to 22d (14d to 15d). .... Bellies and pieces.—Fine[ crossbred, good to super, 20d to 22d (—); low to medium, 16d to 19d (15d -W 17}d>crossbred good to super. 16d to lßd (B°id to 1M)° W to 40 i Medium to, good, 14d to 5 11 ? ol 0 / 143d^: inferior and : seedy, lid to 13d (to 10d). • J Crossbred,. good,* 9d to ; l2d ('id to 9jd). ' t *