DOMINION WOOL SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1931, Page 12

DOMINION WOOL SALES

.The first sale of the 1931-32 New Zealand wool season is fixed for 28th November at Auckland, followed by Napier on 3rd December and Wellington on Bth December. The improvement in the tone of the London market should be followed up in the local New Zealand sales, but na sensational rises are looked lor by those in close, touch with the trade. From the ' Wairarapa • and ■ Manawatu and other parts of the Wellington district and the southern portions of Hawkes Bay wool districts reports have been of the sheep coming well through the winter, and with a good growth of wool, long in texture and better all.round in fact than it has been for the past four or five seasons. Equally satisfactory reports have been received from the Sounds, Marlborough, and Nelson. With the improved tone of the London sales and the recent rise in the prices of crossbred tops in Bradford, there should be a good clearance of the catalogues to be offered in New Zealand before Christmas.

DAIRY PRODUCE OUTPUT

AND STOCKS

Gradings of butter and cheese for the first two months of this season, August and September, compare. with those of last year as follows:— ■ ,2 .mos., 1931.2 mos., 1930. ■ ■ . ■ . Tons. Tons. Butter 11,014 10.459 Cheese 3,280' 5,482 Increase in butter for the period,. 5.30 per cent.; decrease in cheese, 40.16 per cent. ■ , Mr. Wm. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division, in commenting on the above returns, remarks: — "Although climatic conditions have not been favourable during the period, and have somewhat retarded production, the regulations recently gazetted making it compulsory for cheese to remain in factory curing rooms for three weeks during September, as against'l4 days previously, accounts for much of the apparent decrease in cheese. Converting the above figures into butterfat equivalent, there is a decrease of 2.844 per cent, in butter-fat production for the tiro months, as compared with the corresponding period of the 1930-31 season. Stocks held in the various grading ports in the Dominion at 30th September compare as follows with those of a year 6 ' ' IP3O. 1031. Tons. • Tons. Butter 4488 . 3919 Cheese 3590 3025 Decreased stocks, 1931' period, 569 tons butter, 565- tons cheese.