TRADE OF AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 7

TRADE OF AUSTRALIA.

EXPORTS EXCEED IMPORTS. RETURN FOR SIX MONTHS. SYDNEY, Feb. 6. The figures of Australia's oversea trad© for the first/ six months of tho financial year disclose an excess of exports over imports of £11,893,055, compared with an excess of imports of £14,594.847 for the corresponding period last year. The exports of gold, however, were considerably heavier.

WOOL SALES POSTPONED. BRADFORD QUOTATIONS. LONDON, Feb. 5. The wool sales were postponed to-day, owing to fog. The Bradford market is firm, with somewhat less inquiry. Sixty-fours are quoted at Is 9J>d per lb.; 60's, Is 7d; 56's, Is 2d; 50's, 11 id; 46's, 9Jd; 40's, 9Jd. TRADE IN YORKSHIRE. ALL SECTIONS IMPROVED. LONDON, Feb. 6. The Daily Herald says it notes signs of revival in the Yorkshire wool and textile trade. Improvement has been shown in every section of the market. One Bradford spinner this week contracted >V 250,0001b. of yarn, which is one of tho largest deals in recent years. SALES IN DOMINION. ALTERATION TO ROSTER. With the wool sale held at Timaru this week sales in the South Island for February will be over. In the original roster three sales were fixed for the North Island (his month, that is February 13 at Wellington, February 18 at Napier and February 23 at Wanganui. At a recent conference between brokers and buyers it was decided to omit the Wanganui sale, in view of the very restricted catalogues, and it was decided to put forward by a day the Napier sale, fixing it for Tuesday, February 17. It is impossible that the Napier sale can now be held owing to tho loss and damage caused to wool stores and wool by the recent earthquake and conflagration. This means that after the Wellington sale on Friday of next week there will be no further wool sales until March 2, when a sale will lie held at Christchurch. The roster shows two other fixtures for Napier, one on March 23 and the other on April 21. w STOCK SALES. EWES SOUGHT AT TUAKAU. Practically a total clearance was at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited's Tuakau sheo fair yesterday. Good ewes met with a keen sale at prices showing, if anything, a slight advance on those at recent sales. A feature of the 6ale was the number of buyers for small pens of lambs, indicating the now very general tendency of farmers to buv store lambs and ewes for killing on the farm during the winter. Over 3000 lambs were sold and very few buyers took more than one pen, many pens being divided between several buyers. Two-tooth ewes made t i° } ?,' 4 nn d ''-tooth ewes, 10s to 13sfresh full-mouth ewes. 8e to 12s; soundmouth ewes, 5s 9d to 7s 9d; old ewes. 3s fj store wethers 8s Gd to 10s 3d; store lambs, 4s 3d to bs fid.

TAUMARUNUI OFFERING. The Taumarunui .Ewe Fair will be held at iaumarunm ou Tuesday, and the entry will comprise upwards of 20,000 ewes. , J, \ 9 . bluest snle of ewes only, north of Feilding. All tne sheep to be offered are genuine farmers' lines bred on hilly country and are big boned, strong, healthy sneep. ROMNEY RAMS WANTED. Good quality Romney rams offered by the Aew Zealand Loan and Mercantile. Agency Company, Limited, at the Westfield B heeu fair on Thursday met with a very keen sale of up to 4Jgns. WAINGARO ' EWE FAIR. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports:—A good yard ing of sheep was penned at the Waingaro ewe fair, when late were fully, maintained. Ihere was a fair demand for young breeding ewes which all changed hands' at prices well up to recent sheep fair values. Quotations:—Two-tooth breeding ewes. 12a 7d to 14s Id; others., lis 9d; 4-tooth to 6tooth and F.F.M., 7s 3d tp 8s 9d; 4 and 5year, 5s Gd to 7s 8d; aged ewes. Od to ss; 4 and 6-tooth wethers. JjjwSjd; good mixed sex lambs, 5s Cd to others. 3s - to 4s Gd; ewo lambs, 5s toj 5s 7d; wether lambs, 4s to 4s lOd. ' Cr. W. Vercoe and Cofhpany, Limited, report Competition throughout was steady, and with the exception of one line, the whole yarding changed hands at satisfactory prices. On account, of Messrs. Wilson Brothers, of Waimai, a line of 508 five-year ewes realised 10s 3d. Small two-tooth ewe 3 made 9s 9d to lis; good four and five-year ewes. 8s to ]os 3d; five-year ewes, Gs to * 7s 9d; aged ewes. 3s to 4s Gd; good store lambs, 5s 3d to 5s lid; small store lambs, 3s to 4s sd; six-tooth wethers, Gs lid; two and four-tooth Honmey rams, ljgns. io 23gns.