AUCTION SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 257, 25 July 1919, Page 10

AUCTION SALES

- FORTHCOMING FIXTURES. ■ - TO-DAT. Bruce Road, Werovoa, 1 p.m.—Sale cf etock and implementa (Abraham nnd ■Williame). , 137 Lambton Quay, Wellington, 2.30 p.m.— -. City property salo (llodgkins, Carver and Co.). 45' Manners Street, Wellington.—Furniture aalHßadford and Co.). :/■;. . , MONDAY. 6"Upland Road, Kelbnrn, 11 a.m.-Furni-ture sole (Haroonrt and Co.). ■ Mamokan; 12 noon—Sale of Block and im.•...plements (N.Z. Loan Co.). WELLINGTON'S WOOL VALUE FOUE MILLIONS FOR THE YEAH. For the twelve months ended June last —"the wool year"—the following quantities of wool havo passed through Government brokers' hamls in the Wellington jaluntion district, which includes: Wellington, Wangaimi, Wnitnra, Blenheim, itfioton, and. Nelson:— Ba'QT' Abraham and Willinms 9,410 Dnjgety nnd Co 27,736 N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. Distributing 24,185 Levin nnd Co 33,201 ■Murray, Roberts, nnd Co 19,588 N.Z. Loan and Mercantile 21,844 Wairarapa Farmers, Co-op 8,353 I .jy.riglit, Stophenson, nnd Co 4,731 ■rreemnn E. Jackson 4,655 Jtomers' Co-op. Organisation Sol, °iety • 1,971 Johnston and Co 3,294 Hugh Eoberts 727 L. A. Nolan 3,897 Newton King 3,675 W. E. Clouston and Co 3,089 f'j. Farmers' Co-op, 3,643 .Buxtoii 2,889 K Je.Y Bros ,-, 591 !«i 178,085 -TWhe quantities valued at the different ■ centres in the district were as follow:— AVellington, 107,588; Wanganui, 39,257j Wnitara, 7572; Blenheim, 16,057; Nelson, 7581; total, 178,085. The grand total jjDoniimon quantities handled by firms •whose names appear in the above'list are as follow:-Dalgety and Co.. 93,718 ■bales; Murray, Eoberts, -32,352; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile, 54,848; Wright, Stephenson, 26,092; Abraham and' Williams, 9819; New Zealand Farmers' Co OP'-rntivi'. 18.Mi. Tlipsc Micindp Welliiißtoj totals. The wool offered for valuation in the Wellington district totalled 209,004 biiiles, of which 178,085 bales were greiiey and 30,919 bales were freezing companies' slipe wools. The quantities of greasy wool disposed of were 139,536 bales to the British Government, 9139 bales to tho United States Government, 893 bales to New Zealand •mills, and 28,517 bales were delivered to scourers in tho Dominion, making up tho above total of 178.055 bales of greasy Wool.

..Appeals ogainst the valuation were fleam on 57 Jots, representing 510 bales. In the case seven lots only tho appeals were upheld. ' The value of tho greasy wool may be taken as approximately ,£23 per bale. At "this figure the clip would represent .£4,095,951. . '

. In addition to the above, the following quantities of slipo wools, the property of lreezing worts, w«re valued:— Freezing Works. ' B a i es , wear Meat Co 4 gj 9 Wellington Meat Export Co 3*420 Wellington Farmers' Meat Co. ... 2447 •J- eilding Farmers j ion Waiiganui Co i'iSr m./j. HefriKerating Co <> 757 National Mortgage (Longburn) ...'.'.'. 1^558 'Italian? Fanner"' 'Meat Co pofi Pa tea Farmers' Co-op " gig Taranaki Farmers' Co .„., soi - u | g pnp j m North British and HawkeVßay .. 411 Iselson Bros ~, 2 467 Gisborne Sheep Farmers ~...„' 2 545 Poverty Bay Farmers " o'nia Hawke's Bay Fanners .'.......„.'.'." JVIB AVniroa Farmers ' ' Vn Tokomaru- Farmers '„[ 39 j) . Tota l .'. 30,913