DUNEDIN WOOL SALE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18900, 22 December 1923, Page 5

DUNEDIN WOOL SALE

SOME NEW RECORDS SUCCESSFUL SALE ALL ROUND. (Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, Dec. 21. The first wool sale of the 1923-24 season was concluded to-day. The total offering forward for this sale was 17,450 bales, as compared with 10,053 bales for the first sale of last season. The bench of buyers was the most representative ever seen at a colonial [auction sale. There were buyers directly representing the British Isles, Canada, U.S.A., Japan, Franco, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Switzerland, besides probably other European countries and states. Taken all round, the quality of the clips as represented by the offering, is above a normal season, although perhaps not quite equal to certain special years which could be named. The bulk of the New Zealand clip has been shorn quite three weeks earlier than is usual, which naturally means less yolk, and consequently drier and higher yielding wools.

To-day's sale created some new records, and these are recorded as under: Merino, 313 d, Corriedale, 291 d; halfbred, 283 d; halfbred pieces, 27Ad; halfbred bellies, 25d. The following list gives the range of prices:— Merino, 64/70 and 60/64.—Extra super A.A., 28d to 313 d; super, 25id to 27Ad; average 8.8. and 8., 23d to 25d; inferior C. and D., 20d to 22Ad. Fine Crossbred.—sB, 56/58 and 56, —Extra super A.A., 274 to 29Ad; super A, 25d to 27d; average 8.8. and 8., 22d to 24Ad; inferior C. and D., 19d to 21Ad.

Medium Halfbred, 50/56, 50—Extra super A.A., 26d to super A., 24d to 253 d; average 8.8., and 8., 214 d to 23Ad; inferior C. and D., 19d to 21d.

Coarse Halfbred, 48/50. —Extra super A.A., 22d to 24Ad; super A., 20Ad to 214 d; average 8.8. and 8., 18d to 20d; inferior C. and D., 16Ad to 173 d.

Corriedale.—Extra super A.A., 26d to 29Ad; super A., 24d to 25Ad; average 8.8. and 8., 22d to 23Ad; inferior C. and D., 19d to 21Ad.

Fine Crossbred, 46/48. —Super A.A., and A., 20d to 22d; average 8.8. and 8., 17d to 19Ad; inferior C. and D., 14d to 16Ad. Medium Crossbred, 44/46. —Super A. A. and A., 15d to 17Ad; average 8.8. and 8., 14d to 15Ad; inferior C. and D., 12d to 133 d. Coarse Crossbred, 40/44. —Super A.A. and A., 13d to 15d; average 8.8. and B. 113 d to 12Jd; inferior C. and D., 10jd to Hid. BELLIES AND PIECES. Merino.—Good to super, A. and B. pieces, 20d to 24Ad; bellies, 17d to 19d; low to medium C. and D. pieces, 17d to 19d; bellies, 14d to 16d. Halfbred.—Good to super A. and B. pieces, 22d to 274 d; bellies, 18d to 25d; low to medium C. and D. pieces, 17d to 21d; bellies, 15d to 174 d. Crossbred.—Good to super A. and B. pieces, 14d to 21d; bellies, 13d to 17d; low to medium C. and D. pieces, lid to 13d; bellies, lOd to 124 d. Crutchings.—Medium to good, B*d to 13d; inferior and seedy, 6d to Bd.” Locks.—Merino, lid to 12d; halfbreds, 8d to 12d; crossbred, 6d to 74d.