BRISBANE WOOL SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20713, 5 November 1930, Page 7

BRISBANE WOOL SALES.

COMPETITION ANIMATED. GOOD QUALITY IN DEMAND. (Received November 0, 12.35 a.m.) BRISBANE. Nov. 4. At the wool sales 10,698 bales were offered. Competition was very animated 011 Bradford and German account. The. market was very firm for all wools of quality. The top prices were:—For greasy 17? d and for scoured 22Ad. CLOTHING FOR MEN. AUCKLAND TAILOR'S VIEWS. LONDON STILL SETS FASHIONS. "There is no doubt that men to-dnv realise that it pays to bo well dressed," said Mr. Hugh Wright, who returned by the Niagara on Monday after an extended tour abroad. "Good clothes arc recognised as a business necessity." West End tailoring still set the standard for the world, Mr. Wright said. Even in the United States there could be noticed the gradual disappearance of the typical American suit, which was being replaced by clothes modelled along lines laid down in London. Indeed, he thought that on the average the New York men were the best dressed in the world. Of course, there was nothing to be compared with the tailoring of an exclusive class in London, but New York men maintained a consistently high standard in their dress.

Strong attempts were being made to reorganise the woollen trade in England. The industry was suffering from the effects of depression, but English woollens were still regarded as the best in the world. They were used even in American ready-made suits, which accounted for the high* prices charged in American stores. A good ready-made suit could not be obtained in the United States for anything under £lO. English woollen manufacturers were catering for the demands of the trade by giving a greater range of materials than ever before. There was a wonderful variety of colour schemes and designs, which gave the tailor plenty of scope. , Production was carried on on first-class lines and, in sympathy with the present state of the wool market, prices were falling. As for the latest fashions in men's wear, Mr. Wright said that the double-breasted waistcoat was now a thing of the past,. The wardrobe of any middle-class or upper-class Englishman was incomplete without a plus-four suit. All over the country one saw young and middle-aged men wearing plus-fours, although some of them had perhaps never handled a golf club in their lives. Plus-fours were the accepted thing for motoring and travelling. "The young New Zealander can stand comparison with most of his class in other countries in the matter of dress, Mr. Wright said. "They have certainly given a lead to the older generation in this respect." STOCK SALES. / VALUES AT FRANKTON. IMPROVEMENT IN FAT SHEEP. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Tuesday. A full yarding of beef came forward at the stock sale at Frankton to-day. Good quality cows sold well but poor qualify did not meet with keen competition. Prices realised for a good offering of fat sheen increased slightly. A heavy yarding of fat pigs met with poor demand, slight decreases being recorded in all classes. The auctioneers quote as follows: Dalgety and Company, Limited. —Mediumweight fat bullocks, £l3: two and a-half-year fat steers, £9 16s to £l2; prime fat young cows and heifers, £8 2s 6d to £lO 7s 6d: plain fat cows, £G to £7 7s; Jersey fat cows. £5 to £5 15s: store cows, £4 13s to £5 ss: empty two-year heifers, £'< ito £4 2s 6d; small Jersey store cows, 39a; bulls at late rates; extra prime shorn ewes, 15s 8d; ordinary fat shorn ewes. 13s to 13s 9d: store wethers (good), 23s to 245; woolly fat wethers, 24s 6d to 26s 6d; fat woolly ewes. 13s; aged woolly ewes with nearly 100 per cent, of lambs, ISs sd; fat woolly hoggets. 19s to 24s 6d; baconers, £3; porkers, £2 5s to £2 12s 6d: stores (large), 37s to 41s; small store pigs, 25s to 335; slips, 21s to 245; weaners. 16s to 20s. Tho Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Heavy prime fat bullocks made £l4 12s to £ls 2s 6d; medium fat bullocks, £l3 to £l3 17s 6d; light fat bullocks, £l2 to £l2 7s 6d: fat cows. £8 12s Gd to £9 4s; medium, £7 2s 6d to £8 7s Cd: light, £5 10s to £6 17s 6d: forward-condi-tioned cows. £4 12s 6d to £5 ss; store cows. £2 5s to £4 Is; boners, 30s to £2; empty two-year heifers, £3; yearling heifers, 32s to £4; yearling steers, £2 10s to £3 ss: ISmonths steers, £3 17s; fat hoggets, 19s to 235; fat lambs,' 23s 9d to 24s 3d; woolly fat ewes, 13s Gd to 25s Gd; fat shorn wethers, 21s Gd; choppers, £3 6s to £4; heavy baconers, £2 Ins to £2 ISs: light baconers and heavy porkers. £2 9s to £2 13s: liuht porkers, £2 Is to £2 7s; stores, 345-to 395; slips, 27s 6d to 31s; weaners, ISs to 245. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Aeencv Company, Limited.—Prime fat bullocks, £l3 10s to £l3 15s; ligl/ter. £l2 to £l3 2 S 6d: prime fat cows, £9 5s to £9 12s; fat cows. £8 2s to £8 18s: medium, £7 8s to £7 13s: killnble cows. £5 15s to £6 2s 6d: stora C-ows, £3 17s 6d to £4 ss: vealers. £4 10s: good yearling marked heifers, £6: poor quality, £2 17s Cd to £3 ss; prime fat wethers. 25s to 25s Od: fat wethers. 24s 2d to 2is 7d: fnt. shorn ewes. 13s Gd to lis 3d: fat lambs, £1 Is 3d; prime fat lioggels. £1 4s; average, 19s 6d: choppers, £5 Is; heavy baconers. £2 13s to £2 17s; lighter. £2 9s to £2 12s Gd; porkers. £2 3s to £2 Ss Gd: stores, £1 13s to £2: slips, 28s to 31s: weaners, 21s Gd to 255. ft. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited.— Prime medium-weight fat bullocks, £l4 5s to £l4 17s Gd: medium. £l3 5? to £l4: lighter fat bullocks. £l2 10s to £l3: light and unfinished. £9 10s to £lO 15s; prime heavy fat cows, £9 15s to £ll 10s: prime mediumweight. £S 10s to £10: heavy, £7 10s to £R ss; lighter, £6 13s to £7 7s Gd; light. £5 10s to £6 )0s; prime fnt heifers. £8 10s to £lO 103: light. £6 10s to £S ss: forward-condi-tioned cows. £3 to £4 10s: heavy fat wethers. 275; light prime. 23s to 23s 4d: prime fat hoggets, to 2Ss 3d; light fat hogcf(s. 17s 3d: heavy fat owes. 13s 9d to lGs Gd; fat lambs, 21s 3d to 24s 3d; baconers. £2 13s to £2 17s; light. £2 Us to £2 14s: porkers. £2 8s to £2 10s: good stores. 3as to 38s; weaners. 23s to 28s.

VALUES AT PAPAKURA. Ati average sardine of dairy cattle sold at improved rates at the stock sale nt Papakura yesterday, conducted by the New Zenland Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. Best dairy cows and heifers made £lO to £l3 ss; other good cows and heifers, £(i 10» to £S 15s; backward cows and heifers, £3 to £4 15s ; yearling Jersey heifers, £3 10s to £5 ss. A slight decline in the demand was shown for beef. Heavy prima steers mace £7 to £9 15s; light prime cows and heifers. £3 to £4 18s; yearling heifcr-i £'2 to.£4 15a. Practically all store fleers were passed in. Ewes in wool, with lambs at foot, made I:ss all counted. CANTERBURY MARKETS. PERIOD OF SLACKNESS. [liV TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCII. Tuesday. There are no changes to report in regard to the Canterbury grain and produce market. The business passing is only of the off-season variety. Practically the only sales being made at present are of potatoes, for which there is a little inquirv from the North. The price, however, "has not- recorded any substantial increase, and ranges from £1 10s to £1 15s a ton, on trucks. The market has reached its dying stages and there is neither ho volume of business nor the ent to result in any improvement until transactions next season coran.ence • All other sections of the maiktt passing through a slack period.