NAPIER WOOL SALES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16826, 13 December 1928, Page 8

NAPIER WOOL SALES

OFFICIAL RANGE OF PRICES

(Per Press Association. l NAPIER, this day. The official rango of prices at the Napier wool sales was as under:— Merino ■ Average, nil; inferior, ml. Corriedale : Super, up to 21£d; average, 18d to 20d; inferior, 16£«l to Yl{A. Southdown: Super, up lo 21Jd; average, 10(1 to 20id; inferior, 17d to 18d. Medium halfbred, 50/56's: Super, up to 21|d; average, 19d to inferior, nil. Extra fine, crossbred. 48/50's: Super, 19d to 20tl; average, 16d to 18£d; inferior, I3£d to 15fd. Fine, crossbred, 46/48's : Super, 17£d to 19d; average, 16d to 17d; inferior, 13d to 15d.

Medium crossbred, 44/46's: Super, 17d to lifd; average, to 16|dj inferior, lSd to 15d.

Coarse crossbred, 40/44's : Super, 17d to 18d ; average, 15d to■ 16j}d ; inferior, 12d to 14d.

Low crossbred, 36/40's: Super, nil; average, 14 d to 15d; inferior, IOJd to 13d.

Hoggets: 48/50's, 18d to 21d; fine, 46/48's, 16d to 19£d; medium, 44/46's, 153 d to coarse, 40/44's, nil. Pieces : Neck pieces, to 19d; pieces, good to super, 15J,d to 17^d, pieces, low to medium, 10|d to 14^d; pieces, seedy and inferior, to 10»]d. Bellies: Good to super, lid to 13|d; low to medium, 9|d to lOJd; seedy and inferior, 9d to lljd. Lambs, 46/50's: Super, 19Jd to 21Jd j average, 16d to 18j}4. Crutehings : flood to super, 13d to 14 Ad ; inferior and seedy, 5d to lOd. ' Locks: Crossbred, 6|d to 9£d.