DALGETY & COMPANY, LTD.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20100, 20 March 1928, Page 9

DALGETY & COMPANY, LTD.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report: —The concluding sale of the season brought forward a total offering of 4000 bales, our quota being 400. A.s is usual so late in the season a large proportion of the offering was comprised of heavy conditioned wools and medium and inferior bellies and pieces. The good and medium fleece wools offered met wonderfully keen competition, as also did free lambs’ wool and bellies and pieces. A good bench of buyers was in attendance and competition for all classes of the textile offered was animated. Since last Wanganui sale was held prices at other centres have shown a firmer tine and at yesterday’s sale the appreciation was well maintained. Any good fleece wool met eager competition from Continental and English buyers, the former generally holding the highest and most elastic limits, and at the end of the auction came out the largest buyers. Japan was in the market and secured a fair quantity of the offering. France was keenly interested and bought a heavy qquantity of all classes of lambs’ wool, paying very satisfactory prices for both free and seedy parcels. Bellies and pieces sold well, overseas buyers and local scourers both competing freely. For a final sale results produced exceeded the most sanguine expectations and brokers’ values wore generally much exceeded by auction bids. Growers who were lucky enough to market their wool in the sale will be highly pleased with results ,as without doubt, when quality and condition is considered, it is among one of the dearest sales of the season.

It is evident that wool is wanted by all manufacturing centres and the outlook is eminently satisfactory. We had a few really good lines of fleece wool, the FMH brand from Tiritca being a very light conditioned Romney of good colour and growth, four bales of A Ewes making 22Ad, four bales 13 Ewes 22d, and six bales wethers 21d. The Marahau clip from Waverlcy also

sold well, the wool, being well grown but a little heavy in condition and of good colour and depth. Seventeen hales of AA Ewes sold at 21d, twelve AEwes IS, 11 B Ewes 17-Ad. We had no super lambs’ wool, our best price being 20Ad for 4 bales JHY, 48/50 quality, fair colour and length. For four bales D & T crossbred necks we made 16d and JBd for an intcrlot of bulky light conditioned first pieces. Practically now in every grade of wool commandeer prices arc being exceeded and if the market can be stabilised at present range, wool growers in the Dominion should see a reasonable profit on their sheep farming pursuits.

The following wore amongst our sales:—HßP: Hoggets .18Ad; Wethers 17Ad; Ewes 18}d. FMH: Ewes A 22Ad; Ewes B 22d; Wethers 2ld. Orua: X-bred A 18£d; Lambs lid. Tangahoe: Hoggets 18d; Ewes 163 d. D & T: Ewes A 183 d; Wethers B 16d; Wethers C 15Ad; Neck Pieces 16d. AT/ Aotea: Ewes 17d. Marahau: Ewes A A 21d; Ewes A 18d; Ewes B 174 d. DC/R: Ewes 153 d. B Wineglass B: Dn. Lbs. 20d. S3/Cryon: Lambs 163 d. JHY: Hoggets ISAd; Ewes 183 d; Wethers 19d; Lambs 20-Ad. Hiwiroa: Lambs 143 d. Various: Lbs. 20Ad. DCO/WN in block: Lambs 163 d. Milnes: Lambs 16d. Orua: Hoggets 19Ad. SE/A: Lambs 16d. JHMcL: Lambs 19d.