COMING WOOL SALE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 26, 13 January 1912, Page 6

COMING WOOL SALE.

A VISIT TO THE STORES. Considerable interest is being shown in all parts of the province in the forthcoming second wool sale. M ith the object of obtaining an idea of the class of wool coming forward a representative of the ’ Tribune’' yesterday went thrm.gn a number of the sheds at the Port and had a chat with the experts in charge. There appears every indication of the second sale being a »vry large one. indeed, much larger than the first sale this year, and considerably in advance of the corresponding sale I?.-.- yrar. There wi;l also be a larger number of buyers from outside. including representatives of French. German. American. Japanand P.radford houses. The American demand for bright clean wi ■! has considerably improved, and a good sale in this line is anti* ipated. In conversation with Mr. T. Lindsa’ . the popular auctioneer for M< -srs. Palget.v and Co., we learnt that the wool coming forward (through Lis firm at any rate) was erv fair. It was not quite so good as the first sale clip, .is early shear ing on clean grass land br< tight the wool forward in better state. The wool coming forward was principally j from the Wairoa. Bush, and upcountry districts. From what can bei seem the clip this year appears to be i will grown, fairly dry. and light in! condition. A particularly notice-!

aide feature <■! the wool now offering is the strong strain <■? Romney throughout, while a few yeais back tire main clip was decidedly Lincoln. In '.ontc quarters it is held that this infusion of Romney blood is a fact to be regretted. Coarse Lincoln w.i 1 suits English markets, but not American. Romney wool is affected by- the weather more than Lhn-ii’n and as a result the weather g. .tcrally experience J lately has affected tl.f Romney clip c insiderably. and the product of many places L'> therefore suffered accordingly. Ii view of this it might be well to ii raider the wisdom of infusing ini i' Lincoln blood. Anyhow, it a fair proposition for considers-tli-n of growers in this part of the Dominion. Owing to the broken weather experienced cf late shearing tn the Bush and up-country dist'ict ; lias been considerably delayed. and a*' a consequent result we may ex-pec! a larger proportion of wo.i! than usual to come forward at tiie third sale.

i AROUND THE STORES. ‘ In Messrs. Dalgety and Co.’s' ! sheds there is a display of no less i than -nbo bales. Amongst this lot i ther.' were some very good lines. ' Lambs' woo! was well grown, but ow’ng to the v.i.'ii and weather it v.ni t so liiight and attractive in arance as in other years. Not’itali'e lamb clips were Pouk v. . Okawa, PP conjoined, and < I.J. In fleece wool there was a s..ghtly wider range, tome good lots n : ag forward from Lake Station (h.df bred). <! LJ (half bred). JG (Linidr..'. Wr.-.iiz. and WX (fine Romney i At Williams and Kettle's water-1 t»-.>ric store ail was in order for the! and Mr. Cogswell ’showed ottr j t-'p-e-sentati-.m around the building! -rd had time permitted we shoni I | hw> visited No. 5 store, where class-1

’l'o wt’.s also going on. But we were to le.-’.rn from Mr. Cogswell iba. ’the firm l-'iii a large catalogue read'. P-;- -tic:!. They were ofii ring • st.o bales of 11. B. and East Coast .’ ■> 1. In this store, as in the previous o::e we found the wool, general! ’ •■no-.king os Romney-cross; well cr< 'v:t and clean. V.'e were shown -•.me line lots from G and PP over K. Romney cross: PPP. Romney .■•s: W and F. h ilf-bi d and fine ei, «sTired (150 bales): Friniley ?.hl

I) and S. Ro’ i’icy-cross and FI). sO bn les i.f the same. Other fine lines dd have be. n placed ’ in No. 5 -Ind. but time would not permit. Som” of th? best woo! shown us in <•}>>■ 1 rar?' from Oiy.ne. which a mo-t grazers knryv, is fine clean courtry. Messrs. Williams and Ket th* have intrr-lottfd all odd lines so th.-/ ecmuetition may bo improved ard <. onvenienee served. They had ‘ v?i y fair lambs wool but no 't?..-' lines. At the Hawke's Bay’ Farmers’ th. c-ntra! feature was two highly imuiitant gentlemen in white coats. .■ ho had no time to bo even c:v.l. i If they treat buyers as they treat p» t’«<nrn the directors will have reason to remember the second sale.

)i.‘ De Pelichet and McLeod ’ "d catalogued 13-10 bales. Mr. Mci.i «.d explained that he was particu’n:!y bus/, but there were no special line ■ bi’i’ic oTercd in his catalogue. The w?s of the general class b iim offered.

At the Loan and Mercantile w? ; .i -d Me sr>. M ailace and Robert-. -< n r ’inir at too.” but they found time to point out some fine lots that j x'.ere bc’.ug offered. In reply to a, .in -tin? as to th? gcnei.il coruht.<>’> :.,f the weed we were told >t was of th? «»:dinar;.’ Romney-Lincoln cross <| well up to las’, year s condition. The wet 1 was lighter this year, but '’is wed grown. Among the best lots j • mi ar y inr?’--;. d nft ring were : LB. I’”' ■•••• -'lie i ; Pirk.hamoamoa i r >’.i a. b.i' iiitid - and ;-bred : p •:• •.!’ i. _>i I —of Mi.haka .1 and >• --b,’.’ ■ ; Il ard M'S have a typical t , '■ R- xuo-s ar.d ifiii -d : .1 :<de ami Pukera iAVebr Coitniy I ' l . Romney-Lincoln i.-I'.'ss. Tin’.- was .-siii’ very nice lamb : n the <’i d th;' LB being the T,, st. Tie boat! Company's < :i.a--h I : “09 iKilt'S. ; Lb.;: /av. EuLei'Ts Ln; p got iitt ) nc- • f the ui>;w r storey of their • x; >;•? (’PP-■-11 ? ti.i I’llioU Hotel. .The t.xir- • i this build-

i _ - . ■■ .'a b. -ed ".lit ii for th? l ; s:day <-f w. ;>!. Ths. flip has a eatait,"n" ~i H’(¥> b.;!<-< for the sal:.’. Our r;- 1.’.’'...- «:i< bail’d ..ve.’ to Mr. I', ziv’ixs. ’.i.t:o did the hono.n s f H," esta'niishmeiit. The same '•'.ay here. The Im Ik was ■': ■ R.,nir. ..4 villi b.r.lf-hreds. (:. r 1 ■»I. : a?ui vm? pure Lincoln. : ■ ’a ■ ■■ -. . half-bred id." IN’. Tml •’ was explained that no ’.-i.-.r' linr? were put forward, as all th’’ d h.'i.i b '■ :• inter-lotted. >

Th? wool offered was a good sample of the Hawk n 's Ra.v product. The buye rs are expec oil to go ihiuugh the sheds to-day. The sale will be held in the Gam son Hall on Tuesday next, commencing at 9 ami. Buyers representing New Zealc.ral. Australasian and Continental firms arrived in Napici 1..-i night, among them being an im.usi’.all.v large proportion from France, and it. is expected that competition foi all classes of wool will be <-!o: c r.nd keim. The number c.f hairs to he offered —according to the cataloguing, which *>-as only completed Ittte last nightby the various brokers will be as follows H.B. Farm Co-operative Association (>77.2 Williams and Kettle -1923 Dalgcty and Co 42911. Murray. Roberts and Co 1900 N.Z.L. and M.A. Co 1791 De Pelichet. McLeod and Co. 1395 Total 21.955.'.

I A BUYER’S OPINION. Questioned about the clip ar.d prospects of the sale buyers are noi. inclined to be conimunmative. Naturally they do not want values anticipated in any way. One buyer, however. went so far as to say th? standard of the wool was well up to last year ami the prices were expected to be well up to London parity. It was anticipated that strong competition would be forthcoming from the Continental section. The Rom-ney-Lincoln cross was attractive to the Bradford market ; in fact, ail Hawke’s Bay wools were keenly sought after 1.-y the Bradford buyers, and competition in Napier was always looked upon as the strongest in New Zealand. American bui i r.will be keen after bright, light, wellskirted wool and Continental buyers, who were after bellies ar.d pieces, were in stronger force than ever before. Good prices might be looked for. It i*: understood ibat about 50 buyers will attend the sale.