AUCTION SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 46, 18 November 1919, Page 10

AUCTION SALES

;' r-'-j'-ifoiTHpoinNQ fixtures. ■!- -..::,' ::.' ... i O .dat.' '' Eketahnna. Yards, 11 a.m.—Cattle sale (Wai- ',-■• rarapa Farmers'). : lovin Yards, 12.15 p.m.—Stock ealo (N.Z. ; Loan' Co., Abraham' and Williams, and !-. -... Dalgety a-nd Co.). ; Taihapo ■ Yards, 1 p.m.—Cattle salo (AbraI ". ham .and Williamn). \' Colombo Koad Yards, M^asterton.-Cattle [ "' Ealo (Wright, Stephenson). jr. :•■..-■: .:; to-MOKEOW. ; Otaki Yards, 1 p.m.-iStoclt ralo (Abraham I and Williams, and Dalgety and Co.). i Woatern Hutt 1.15 p.m.—Furniture sale (H, 1' ■ • -E. Loighton). ' ■ Lambton Quuy, Wellington, 2. 30 p.m.— ■ - Suhurban property Bale- (Harcourt and I . C 0.).. ! B Belfast Street, Wellington, 10 a.m.—Sale ; of building material (E Johnston and I . Qo.). . 1 Pnhiatna, Farmers' Yards, 11.30 a.m.— : ' ■'Cattle' Bile (Dalgety and Co., N.Z. Loan ! - _ Co., and Wright, Stephenson and Co.). i MGLISH WOOL TRADE |. RAW MATERIAL IN A SOUND I POSITION i ■ (From Our Special Correspondent.) i.■ : ".' Bradford, August 27. : '" The fifth series of tlie London auction i tales finished last Saturday, and prices U for all the best combing wools, both I- inerinos itnd crossbmts, were left very ;' largely on tho. high basis wlliich eanio j into t'orco soon after tho second woek of :-.- the sales commenced. There is no doubt, !' iowever, that had it not been- lor out- ;, .side competition, particularly tho United ; 'Silates and Prance, it wuld-- not hnv* 1 Tjoen possible for valuos to Ibave iieen eo j ' .well maintajmul. It ig known here that : America's needs in the way of fine'wools } mo. very far from being satisfied, and ' thero would have been no surprise if, j. had tho total allocation to-Wiat country- ! Wen entirely in merinos, tho whole i quantity luid been taken. Topmakors ; are very largely tied up on necount' of j limitations of capital, and vftero there j has been any case in prices for tops in 1 Bradford, tho financial situation iargely explains it, which in turn has been i- . brougiht about by. tho curtailment of ! . production. Towards Mie finish tliaro was j. , a Rood selection of both merinos and fine i crossbrnde' on wihicli occasion Krcneli . competition waa strongly in evidence. :' About 2.500 bales of Piinta Arenas wool ;■ ■were oatalojjijed, first crossbred eombin" I realisiiifr from 26id. to 39d., Continental r ; * ys l? t,lO Rreatesfc proportion. r On the Friday's sale Brisbane greasy ■ niennos realised up to 44d., and for Syd- ! ney grensy. corabjuKs, the well-knoivii : mark "Coree" realised 52d. Greasy conie- \ hacks and fine crossbreds sold on about a parity with recent rates. -Prices, for Capes have remained'prac- : tiKilly the same for good greasy combi wrs, nnd h«re again, tho level m'aintaini. Ed was largely due to the Continental ;'■ W"JS- .-The inferior lots -were mostly withdrawn, and taking lihe position as a ; vlmjlo compared with previous series it 1 may be said that the best offerings were j about) 5 per cent, dearer. Short, free j wools have sold rather better, but inI fenor . .seffly'lots and nil nativo wools I were/withdrawn. '.;■''■■ /;. Sales Prices. ! ,_■ Tho following: marks nnd prices are j, taken at-random from tho price catai losues of the series of London wool sales j. -which closed last Saturday. They are I, not Riven for.comparative'purposes, but - simply to show what certain .marks aci.-, tually realised:— 1 .. „ ~ Bales. Price, 1. New SontU-'N alpfi-r d I Greasy coni'bing:, GE.M/Burron--1 . -gong " -...-.; ....,'.,.' fi 341 f- Greasy combing, FAE.-TLA... 15 32 ! Greasy, .firer. summer lambs j. Kingston Park ..: 2 »6J i . Greasy; .-AAA; ' Guispley 9 291 , Greasy. AA. clothing: WH,. :.'/■ :GEJI/Burrorij;onsr I) • -36 ', j- Greasy, combing, IHVK, Guni " bar .■...;.:.... .1 u w j. Greasy, AA, EH. EWWnyfickl 15 2.^ Greasy, AE." Egremont Tanco 9 28} GTeasy, clothing:, H, JJL/Trc- „ Iwna 10 28 -combing, WEH, f . M/Weemabah 12 27 i Greasy,. clothing, JJL/Treg- '• \ JP-i-na 13 25} I Victoria— . .; Greasy, crossbred. TC/Oakbank 15 28 i Greasy, fine; crossbred, R/Dropf „ more ' -...'. '. ;„ u «j I Greasy, ..-crossbred, OC/Glen1-.- . aragh ..'. -3 2|J \l Greasy,, crossbred. J.ilv<kle./JN. fi aa [1 Greasy,, crossbred. SW'B ,' G 27 i Gressy,; jinp crossbred, Warra Ture/WK 3 37 Greany, fino.crossbred, JWM/- ■ •'■ Clearviow 5 35 I Greasy, .fino, crossbred, BN/- ' ■ Boon ;.' 9 34i ! '.' The Home-nrown CMd. !■ .'Tho' marketing of tho home-grown clip J JB'DroceedinK' satisfactorily and though I the recent holiday period has tended to i check' business on consumptive account, 'it is undoretond that sufficient interest i tasbpen shown to encournge merchants i to_pav abmit Id. per ib. more for cer- \ t£l3f .qualltics"than thiiy would have flone I ' about a week -igo. The most, fnshionI able descriptions arc Downs, halfbrcds, ; nnd similar sorts. Anything below these ! in- riual'ty are (inly moving- in an indif- ': ■ feront wav. tho bids forthcoming for [ these being considerably below the pre- \ Rent marlwt basis. There is no doubt ! t.hat in a quiet way some very sntisfac- ! torv business has been done recently in ; ■ Jwme-CTO'.vn produce, and the only unsiit- \ [Jsfactorv feature at the present "time is I theapathy displayed towards oeep wools. ; -One'-feature of the British wool trade is the increasing tendency for farmers to sell all their i>roduce by auction. ] Time was when ftirinere thought nothing ' of fritterinp: away nearly a-whole day j in barsaiiiinir privately for the price of 1 their oHd3, but the liking for organisa- : tion and nnblic competition is Incoming ; stronger, iind there is no doubt that this ■ movement is on the whole all to the j. eood. it is understood that efforts are : boine maJ« to establish a selling centre, j for Wensleynnle wool nnd Komney Jfnrsh fiheecbreeders am developing a scheme for markjtinj their clip on the same : lines ns colonial wool if offered in Lon- 1 'don. This co-operntive and pnblic-soll- ' ins movement, particularly the latter, 1 [hits on various occasions met with strong : ODtjosition. but in bo far as it. is an indi- ' cation of increasing knowledge of homeErown wools it can be taken as an encouraging sign of the times. It has been exDlained many times that home- : wwn wool can never compote in the ; world's markets in the f-ame way as j colonial wools, !;ut thi« doci! not imply 1 that irrowßßi. in this country have 1101 thing to gain by pursuing their present I nolicv. ' Surplus Army Clothing, According lo a statement made in the i House of Commons In.-d wk n. cniisidei- - able quantity of doMi and clothiiiL' i.s ' held in Ihie'countrv by the War Ofnet-. This, of course, has all been lnninifno- 1 ; tnred on militai-j- arconnt, nnd includes ! 3,744,000 blankets', ft i-, understood, ho'w- [ ever, that many.of tlw latter now in th« ' possession of the troops nra »nt rcnllv I Berviceable, and ore Wing replaced tmm I thcee in stock. Ktock- abroad ,'iro coh- .: Bidered tn bo only about sufficient for ' .present requirements. Ilho hope in cx- ; -prjesed thdt Mic miods in filiation will ; Tvithin a renponabie period hccmiip avail- : able for snle. The quantity now held J by-the War Office in iln> pie'cp is us /uilows:—GrcatcDiit cloth. 1,798,.W2 vnrds; j perge for jackets 5,325,893 v:\n\t\; tartan 1 for tiroiisers, H.W.WH, yards: whipcord and other material for breeches. S.iVlli.1 239 : irardfl-;'flannel, ordi>in:ry'.(?r(>y. 2,5fi"."!>2 , blue, -hostiibl-' RUMS vards. : 'The : goods made tin into nrlic'iv; of ' clothing 'are shown in the fnMein^ , 'iisl , : ■ —fireatconts.-dismounted, 337.089; grpat- ■ coats, mOll nded, 362,326; inckf|-i. sorvicr , ' 'dress, 800.502: (rouser?, 1.782.332; pnntn- ' loon 9, service dress, 1,085,10(1: shirts '(flannel), 4,4i5,255; drawer. («- O ollei), i S 752 854; *esfe (woollen), 1,5-11,079; socks (pairs),' 14,131,630.