GOOD WOOL PRICES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 22 February 1928, Page 9

GOOD WOOL PRICES.

FIGURES AT AUCKLAND AUCTION

VERY KEEN COMPETITION,

I BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.j AUCKLAND 1 , Feb. 21. The Auckland wool sale ended to-day with most satisfactory results, the range of prices being as follows:

The catalogue figures showed an advance over the Auckland sale in November in consonance with the general firming of the market which has since taken place, crossbreds being from l-jcl to 2d per pound dearer, and wools from 50’s quality and upwards, 3d to 4d per lb. advance.

The peak price last evening, and there were a few which caused astonishment even to buyers, was 25}d for five bales of lambs’: wool, but there were other lots of a similar description which drew down the hammer at 23d and other figures which attested a wool hungry world. A small Southdown clip sold at 24d, six bales of Corriedale at 24} d, 16 bales of fine crossbred at 20Jd, four bales of Shropshire at 21}d, a. lino of half-bred at 20} d, some Corriedale hogget wool at 23d, and some super hogget at 21}d. To-day fine halfbred brought as high as 28}d.

Fine Half bred— d d K'xtra super ... — to 28* Super ... 25 to 26* Average ... 21 to 22* Medium Halfbred—• Average ... 23 to 24* Inferior ... 20 to 23 Coarse Halfbred— Super ... 23 to 24 Average ... 20 to 22* Inferior ... 17 to 19 Fine Crossbred'— Super ... 20 to 22 Average ... 17* to 19* Inferior ... 15 to 17* Medium Orosslbred— Super ... 18* to 19* Average ... 16 to ISJ Inferior and seedy ... ... 12 to 16 Coarse Crossbred— Super to 17 Average ... 15 to 16* Inferior and seedy ... ... 12 to 15 Low Crossbred—

Super ... 16J to 17-J Average ... 14.V to 16 Inferior and seedy ... .... 12 to 14-J-f -2 § bi a Super ... IS to 23^ Fine ... 17 to 21 Medium 16 to 19 Coarse 15 to. 17 Combs—-

Fine 18 to 251 Medium 16 to 19 Seedy and inferior 8 Bellies and Pieces, Half-bred — to 16 Good to super 18 to- 19 Low to medium Bellies and Pieces, 16 Crossbred— to 17f; to super ... m to 173 Low to medium 8 to 13} Bellies and Pieces, Crutch in gs— Medium to good 11 to 133 Inferior to seedy Bellies and Pieces, 7 Locks— to 11 Crossbred 7 to 84