LONDON WOOL SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 7

LONDON WOOL SALES

LARGE CLEARANCE MADE FEW CROSSBREDS OFFERED HOME TRADE'S PURCHASES LONDON, Jan. 14 At the wool sales to-day 9425 bales were offered, including 1810 New Zealand, and 8681 were sold. A good selection ' was offered, consisting chiefly of Australian Merinos. 'Competition was strong, especially for the small supply of crossbreds. A large clearance was effected, the home trade securing the. bulk. New Zealand greasy crossbred "Putiti" realised 22d top price and 18d average. BRADFORD MARKET FIRM WITH UPWARD TENDENCY LONDON. Jan. 14 The Bradford market ifi firm and on an upward tendency. Consumption is fairly good. Following are to-day s quotations and those of recent weeks: — Dec. 24 Dec. 31 Jan. 7 Jan. 14 el d d d Seventies .. 38 30 42 42 Sixty-fours .. 36 37 40 40 Sixties ... 35 36 39 30 Fifty-eights .. 32 1 /, 31% 34 34 Fifty-sixes .. 30 27, a 30 30 Fifties .. 22% 22% Forty-sixes .. —: —' £4 Forties The last three are nominal. GERMAN REQUIREMENTS SHEEP FLOCKS INCREASED BERLIN. Jan. 14 * Statistics compiled by the Bremen Chamber of Trade reveal that Government subventions have resulted in an increase of 500,000 in the number of sheep in Germany. The total now is 4,400,000, yielding from 12 to 15 per cent of the country's wool requirements. The Government aims at 6,000,000 sheep, yielding; 30 per cent of Germany's requirements, at the end of the second year of the Nazi Four-Year Plan. Government decrees command a.n i admixture of staple fibre and fix the ! quota of wool for spinning mills for j the year ending September, 1936. Forty | ]>er cent was trio amount used between April and September, 1934, which in it' self was 50 per cent above normal. THE CITY MARKETS IMPROVEMENT IN PRICKS APRICOTS SELLING CHEAPLY Because of the hindrance of the wet weather to pickers supplies of fruit were smaller at the City Markets yesterday and prices generally improved. Apples were still dull of sale, although choicer quality fruit sold reasonably well. Choice tomatoes and peaches, plums and good quality lemons were in demand. Hothouse tomatoes and strawj berries are almost over, but apricots . from Central Otago arrived in quantity I and sold cheaply.

Vegetables also were scarcer and higher prices prevailed, peas, beans and marrows advancing on recent levels. Lettuce was civereupplied and with potatoes was quit at low prices. Cucumbers were plentiful and cheap. The supply of poultry was heavy and demand was keen, prices remaining steady. First and second grade duck and hen eggs rose 2d per dozen, A grade hen eggs now btiing Is 6}d a dozen. Values were: — FRUIT Apples, Albany Beauty, choice large, 7s to 10s; small, 4s to os; Gravenstein, choice coloured, 5s to 7s; others, 2s 6d •to 4s; Astrachan, choice, 4s 6d to 7s; others, 2s to 4s; cookers, 3s to 4s; pears, Bon Chretien, 10s to 12s; tomatoes, outdoor, extra choice, 5s Gd to Os; others, according condition, 2s ()d to 4s Gd; hothouse, 3d to 7d; Oranges, Californian, 40s to 42s Gd; Jamaican, 24s to 2(is; Japanese, 24s to 295; grapefruit, New Zealand, extra choice. 9s to 12s; lemons, choice, cured, 8s to 12s; others, 4s to 7s; mandarins, Japanese, lis Gel; bananas, ripe, 18s to 275; pineapples, Queensland, 14s to 20s; grapes, hothouse, Hamburg. lOd to 1« 2d; peaches, cases, 3s Gd to 4s; crates. 6s to Os; plums, Burbank, 2ei 6d to 3s 6d; Sultan, 4s to Gs 6d; others, 2s 6d to 4s; nectarines, 4s to ss; apricots, Otago, 5s 6d to 7s; strawberries. Captain Cook, Is Id to 3s sd; Marguerite, Is to In 2d; black . ctsifrants, 7s 6d to 8s 6d case; mushrooms. Is G'l to 2s lb; coconuts, lGs 6d sack. FIELD PRODUCE Beet, Sd to Is 3d dozen; celery, dessert, Is 7d to 2s bundle; carrots, Is to 2s dozen; cauliflowers, 5s to 8s sack; cabbages, 3s to t)s; on benches, Is to 3s 6d dozen; cucumbers, fid to Is lOd dozen; French beans. 3s to os bag; stringlrss beans, lis to 8s; green peas, 3s 9d to 9s; kumaras. Tauranga. 5o to 8s; lettuce, :is to 3s Gd case; marrows. 2s Gd to 5s 6d dozen: onions, ;3s to 6s bag; potatoes, No, 1, Is 9d to 3s; pumpkins, new season's, Red Warren, Ss to 12s cwt; parsnips. Is to Is Od dozen; radish, 3d; rhubarb, is to 2s; spinach. Is to Is Gd; spring onions, 8d to Is 2d bundle: swedes. 3s to 5s Gd bag; turnips, Gd to yd dozen. POULTRY Cockerels, heavy breeds, prime. 2s to ss; not prime, Is 3d up; light breeds, prime. Is 3d to 2s Gd; not prime, 9d up; fat roosters, heavy breeds, prime, 2s to 3s; light breeds, Is Gd to 2s; fat hens, heavy breeds, 2s to 3s 3d; light breeds, Is 3d to Is 9d; drakes, young, prime, Is 9d to 2s 9d; smaller, Js Gd up; old, Is 3d to Is Od; ducks, old, Is 3d to Is Od; cockerel chicks, heavy breeds, Gd up; light breeds. 2d up; guinea fowls, 3s to ss. BUTTER AND EGGS Hen eggs, A grade, Is 6V,d dozen; B grade, "Is sy a d; C grade. Is OVid; duck eggi, A grade, Is 4y ? d dozen; B grade, Is 3Vid; C grade, llV 2 a; farmers' butter, 7V' a d to 9d lb. CANTERBURY MARKETS £tit telkghaph—pnEss association'] CHRISTCHURCH, Friday The grain and produce markets are at present mainly interested in the new price for wheat,' and in the possibility of some widening in the scope of activities of the Wheat Committee. Generally trade is. quiet, ns the new crops have not yet begun to come in, but there is keen interest in fowl wheat, which is quoted as high as os 3d, f.o.b. The demand is brisk, but supplies are small. No interest is being shown in potatoes, and buyers are not in the market. Quotations are nominally £4 10s for reds and i'-l Bsi 6d I'or whites, both f.o.b. The small seed harvest is rather later than usual, and no offerings are, yet being made.