TIMARU WOOL SALE
RANGE OF PRICES. Per Press Association. TIMARD, Dec. 18. At the Timaru wool sale there was an almost complete clearance under the hammer, except in cases where the owners fixed the reserve a.bovc parity. Several lots of halfbreds and Corriedales were passed at prices as high as 21d. RANGE OF PRICES.
DUNEDIN SALE.
CATALOGUE EXTENDED,
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN. Dec. 17
The wool sale originally fixed for Monday has been postponed till Tuesla.y, to allow the wool to reach the market for the first Dunedin 6ale. The original allocation of 26.000 bales has been extended to 30,000.
The fine spell of weather came at the ipportune time, and the big catalogue vill be filled.
CHRISTCHURCH SALE
RETURN OF £700,000.
An estimated return of £700,000 remlted from the wool sale at Christchurch on Monday, when the value ner hale approximated £25, compared with £l4 16s lid at the first sale last siNnson. Last season’s total of wool sold returned £1.400.000, and there was a return of £841,000 in 1934. There was practically a complete clearance at Monday’s sale.
The official range of prices was: — Merino — d. d. Extra super to 254 Super 21 to 23 Medium 174 to 184 Fine Halfbred — Extra super to 253 Super ~ 21 to 23 Medium 17 to 20 Inferior 164 to 174 Medium Halfbred — Super Averages to 22i 19 to 20i Inferior to 17 a' Thrce-quarlcrbred— Super to 20 i Average 18 to 19i Inferior 154 to 174 Medium Crossbred — Super to I7J Average 14 to 16 Inferior to 133 Iloggct Merino — Super to 21 Medium 18 to 194 Halfbred— Extra super to 25 Super 21 to 23 Medium 184 to 194 Inferior 15 to 163 Hogget Threc-quartcrbrcd— Super 18 to 18 Medium 16 to 174 Inferior 144 do 153 Hogget Crossbred — Super 16 to 17 Medium 143 to 154 Inferior 134 to 143 Pieces — Merino: Super 18 to 19i Medium 163 to 174 Inferior 14 to 16 Halfrbrcd: Super 19 to 314 Medium 15 to 174 Inferior 13 to 144 Throe-quarter and Crossbred: Fin nor 134 to 194 Medium 12 to 13 Crntrhiiigs— Merino 10 to 113 Halfbred 103 to 15 Three-quartcrbred 10 to 123 Crossbred 10 to 12 Rollics — Merino 14 to 16 Halfbred 13 to 153 Three-quarter 101 to 125 Crossbred 9* to 11^ Locks — Merino to 104 Halfbred 74 to 10 Three-quarter 53 to 8 Crossbred 53 to 8
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 19 December 1936, Page 2
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