NAPIER WOOL SALE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4631, 4 December 1934, Page 5

NAPIER WOOL SALE

NO CHANCE IN PRICES. FROM AUCKLAND SALE. (Press Association). Hastings, Monday. Rates fully firm on those ruling at the Auckla'nd wool sale last week were experienced at the first Napier sale of the season to-day. There was a full bench of buyers. The only class offered which showed any tendency to ease on Auckland values were shabby seedy wools, of which there was only a very light percentage. Buying orders were more fully represehtated on the benches at to-day's auction than was the case at the Auckland sale and at time particularly strong competition for finer types of wool, especially hogget wools, was apt to be somewhat misleading. Leading buyers and brokers, however, were quite definite that on a clean scoured basis there was very little difference between the two sales. A Pleasing Feature. Possibly some of the finer crossbred hoggets' wools in the leading Hawke's Bay station clips are of better quality than any found in the Auckland catalogue and this has to be taken into consideration. A pleasing feature of the sale was the fact that the Hawke's Bay woolgrowers represented by clips in the entry were definitely more prepared to meet the market than was the case with Northern growers last Tuesday. While withdrawals had been heavy in the past week and the actual offering had shrunk to 17,000 bales in place of the allocation of 25,000 bales, fully 70 per cent, of the wool offered was sold. Bradford was by far the largest buyer of fleece wool. The keenest competition of the whole sale was seen on hogget wools. Generally speaking, these were a well-grown, attractive type, handling well and with a length of staple most suited to the requirements of the trade.

The Range of Prices.

The official range of prices was as follows: —

Southdown — Average, 9d to 10%d. Corriedale— Average, to 11 %d. Halfbred, 50-56 Average, 9d to 10^d. Inferior, to 7%d. Extra Fine Crossbred, 48-50 — Super, 8d to 9%d. Average, 6d to 7%d. Inferior, 5d to 5%d. Fine Crossbred, 46-48 Super, 6%d to 7%d. Average, 5%d to 6%d. Inferior, 4%d to 5%d. Medium Crossbred, 44-46 Super, 5%d to 6%d. Average, 4%d to 5%d. Inferior, to 4%d. Coarse Crossbred, 40-44 Super, s>%d to 6%d. Average, 4d to sd. Low Crossbred, 36-40 — Average, 4d to 6%d. Hoggets—--50/54, 8d to 10%cl. 48/50, 6%d to B%d. 46/48, si/ 2 d to 6%d. Necks — Super, 7% d to B%d. Average, 5d to 6d. Pi p/"*£ s Super, 6d to 7d. Medium, 4%d to 6%d. ' Inferior and seedy, 3%d to 4%d Bellies — Super, 4%d to 6%d. Average, 3%d to 4%d. Seedy and inferior, 2%d to 3%d. Crutchihgs— Good to super, 4%d to 6%d. Average, 3%d to 4%d. Seedy and inferior, to S^d. Locks — Crossbred, 2%d to 3%d.