HARDENING TENDENCY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 11

HARDENING TENDENCY

CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALE SEASON'S RECORD PEL:]-: DEMAND FOB CROSSBRED 3 (Per Press Association.) CHRISTOHURCH, this day. There was a keen demand for ill classes of wool at the second Christchurch sale.

On the opening catalogue, super wools showed a hardening tendency. The record price for the season, was paid early in the second catalogue tot the best of the Corriedale clip'from Lammermoor. In the first catalogue, 19|d a Hi. was paid for the best of the Itvdal Downs Corriedale. Another 11 bales fetched six went at 16d, and pieces went at 16|d and 15|d, There was keen competition for the comparatively few lines of crossbred wool offering. The sale presented the best Canterbury clips, and the quality of the offering was very good, except that some clips contained a fair amount of dust.

Passings were few. Continental and local buyers were actively in the market for liner wools, Willi Bradford, America, and Japan providing steady competition. At- the close of the morning's sale, line halfbreds were up by Id on the Christchureh sale in December and exceptional lots were up to 2d better, though these were few and far between. Pieces were commanding a belter sale; Compared with the December sale, bidding was much freer all round, and it could be described as a very lively sale. The allocation of 23,000 bales for the sale was filled, and as passings continued to be few throughout the morning, it was evident that there would be a good clearance.