WOOL SALES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 December 1925, Page 5

WOOL SALES.

NO IM PR OVFGVIiEiNT AT NAPIER,

FITRITHFjU FA'LL ENPEIOTEID

(ljy TELEGRAPH PEF.3S ASSOCIATION.)

NAPIER, Dec. S

The second wool sale in Napier ol the 1920-2<5 season concluded to-day, no improvement whatever being shown in the prices ruling to those ottered by buyers for earlier catalogues. Bradford, the Continent and America were not eager buyers. They may have wanted -wool, 'but they did not display the keenness that has marked previous sales, and in comparison with the opening sales a month ago, to-day’s sale was dull, bidding being lifeless. It is felt in some quarters that prices must fall still further and that where to-dav a shilling was being offered for good average wools later sales in the season would find the same class oi wool only bringing single figures. The Qomtinent was a big factor at the opening sales of the season in keeping prices up to a sat-islaotory level, but from, the competition prevailing at the second Napier sale it seems as though, Continental orders now being filled, there is a weakening in competition from that market, and that Bradford, which was practically out of the market at the first sale, is now stepping in. prices now reaching a level enabling her buyensi to operate with some freedom. v

„ Compared with November prices have declined as follows :—Superfine Id to ljd, super medium lid to 2d, average 1:|cl to 2jd, inferior 2-Jd to 3d, pieces and bellies Id to-Mfcl, erutellings Id to ljd, lambs good par to £d, lambs average par, lambs seedy and inferior par to ltd. The range of price# is:

Down — ... 14£d to 16id Average : Fine halfbred — Suiper ./ Medium liaMbred— ... 16id to 17£d Super Coarser hnlflbred — 1 ... lod to 17d Super ...... ... I0-2d to 17d Average Inferior ... 12sd to ; lod ... lid to 12fd Oorriediile —- Super, up to Fine crossbred— ... 17id ... 14d . to 16Jd . 12d to 14d Super Average Inferior Me d i urn c r os shred — ... • 9id to Hid ... 14d to lofd Super Average ... Hid to 12jd ... 9d to lOid Coarse crossbred — Super ... I2Jd to. 14d Average . 9?d to Hid ... 7d to 9 id Low crossbred — ... 12Jd Super, up to Average ... lOid to 12d ... 7d tolOd Hoggets— [Fine Medium Coarse Da m b s— ... 15d to If: 1 ... 13id to Kid ... 12id to 13id ... 12d to 16d Seedy and inferior ... 8d to 12d BELLIES AMD PIECES. Hailfbred — Low to medium, up Crossbred — to 12id ... lid to 133d Good to super Low to medium ... Crutch ings— 7d to lid 9d to lOJ-d Medium to good * Inferior and seedy ... 4d to 7id Locks — 4id to Gd Crossbred