STEADY DEMAND FOR WOOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 636, 12 April 1929, Page 10

STEADY DEMAND FOR WOOL

FINAL AUCKLAND SALE MIXED SELECTION OFFERED The linal Auckland wool sale of the

1928-23 selling season was held in the Chamber of Commerce ITall yesterday afternoon. Most of the bigger buying centres were represented in a bench of 17 buyers. The aggregate offering of 2,103 bales was made up mostly of odd lots, of which lambs wool made a larger percentage. Competition was well sustained, and prices were on a par with those ruling at the recent Southern sales. The order of sale was as follows; Loan and Mercantile Co., Ltd., 236 bales. . Dalgety and Co., in conjunction with the North Auckland Farmers, 553 bales. Abraham and Williams, 301 bales. Alfred Buckland and Sons, 153 bales. Farmers’ Auctioneering Co., 500 bales. In view of the small and very mixed selection offered, it is not proposed to offer anything in the form of an official report or range of prices in the sale. REPRESENTATIVE CLIPS Representative clips showing a. range of prices included the following:— Double right angle, reclassed.—One bale ha fbred, 17j£d. JB over Highgrade.—4 bales xbred hoggets, TD over Ruatahuna.—6 bales xbred, 12£d; 4 bales xbred, llid; 4 bales xbred C, lid. Otioro.—4 bales bellies, 9id; 4 bales xbred, ll^d. Omania, reclassed. —8 bales xbred A, 14d; 13 bales xbred B, 13id; S bales coarse xbred, 12^d. KJ over bar over TW; reclassed.—4 bales medium xbred hoggets and ewes, lod; 5 bales xbred hoggets and ewes, llid; 6 bales dingy and cotted wool, llid. Pokarana, rec assed.—2 bales medium lambs, 15d; 1 bale lambs, 12 id; 1 bale lambs, 12d; 2 bales lambs, 9id; 1 bale lambs A, logd; 2 bales xbred, lid; 1 bale xbred, Did; 2 bales xbred Cotts, 113 d; 1 bale xbred, llid; 1 bale coarse xbred A, loid; 1 bale Southdown, 16id; 1 bale Lincoln and Cotts, 12id. Middlemore.—S ba’es fine lamb. lod; 8 bales medium lamb, 14id; 5 bales of seedy lamb, llid; 2 bales of bellies and pieces, 9d. LP over M. reclassed. —9 bales fine xbred hoggets, 14id; 6 bales xbred Lincoln hoggets.* llid: 2 bales fine xbred wethers, 133 d; 5 bales medium xbred wethers. 13d: 5 bales coarse xbred wethers, 12d; 7 bales Lincoln. 12d; 2 bales cotted woo l , I2id; f> bales bellies, Bici: 5 bales lambs A. 14id; 4 bales lambs B, llgd; 3 bales crutchings, Bid. JR over Harihari, reclassed.—T bales fine xbred hoggets, 14d; 8 bales medium xbred hoggets, 12id; 5 bales coarse mixed xbred hoggets, I2d; 8 bales fine xbred. A, 14id; 11 bales medium xbred A, 13id: 9 bales coarse xbred A, 12Jd; 3 bales fine xbred B, 13id; 5 bales medium xbred B, 121 d; 5 bales coarse xbred B, llid; 3 bales pieces, 10§d; 6 bales bellies, 9d; 2 bales locks, 7(1; 5 bales crutchings, 71d; 3 bales lambs, 3ld.