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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 4 January 1913, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Sydney, January 3. Potatoes have slumped. Clarence Rivers are quoted at £5, Victorians £6, Tasmanians £9. NAPIER WOOL SALES. Napier, January 3. The second series of the season’s wool sales, under the auspices of the Napier Wool Brokers’ Association, was held here to-day. There was a large and representative attendance of buy'ers; and a record numlber of sales. 26,751 bales were submitted, compared ' with 21,050 in January of last year. Bradford wools were keenly sought for, and realised satisfactory prices, but American buyers were not operating freely, and wools suitable for that market showed a decline of R 1 to 2Jtl a lb. Lambs’ wool sold extremely well. Bellies and pieces also caused good competition. , Appended arc the figures which show the range of prices with the figures for the corresponding sale of last year given in parenthesis.—Best halfbred 12id to 13R1 (Hid to 13d); medium, dOid to 12d (10Id to llfd) ; fine crossbred, lid to 12-Rl (lOfd to Hid); medium quality, 9Jd to lOfd (9d to 10|d); coarse quality, 9d to lOd (7id to 8R1); inferior, B|d to 9d (7d to 7£d); pieces, 7d to 9ld (6d to 9)d); bellies, 6|d to 8d (sid to 7RI) ; locks, 5d to s )d (3jd to 4-id') ; lambs, SRI to 12Jd (GUI to lid); dead, 7id to 9RI (7d to lOJd). Fourteen bales of scoured pieces realised 15id.