NAPIER WOOL SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 604, 5 March 1929, Page 15

NAPIER WOOL SALE

Late Commercial —

RANGE OF PRICES Press Association NAPJIER, To-day. The range of prices at the Napier wool sale, which has just been made available, is as follows: Merino, average 16Jd to 17id. Corriedale, super, up to 20.*d. Medium halfbred, 50-60 s, super, ISid to 20d; average, J6d to 17d; inferior, up to laid. Coarse halfbred, 48-50’s, super 17td to 19d; average, 15d to 16id; inferior, lOd to 14Ad. Fine crossbred, 46-4 S’s, super, 16d to 173 d; average, 14d to 15yd; inferior, lOd to 13d. Medium crossbred, 44-l G’s, super, 16d to 17Ad; average, 13Jd to 17Jd; average, to 15id; inferior, 7id to 12d. Coarse crossbred, 40-44’s, super, 14£d to 16d; average, 13id to 14Id; inferior, 8d to 123 d. Low crossbred, 3G-40’s, super, 13id to 143 d; average, 12d to 13.\d; inferior, up to lid. Southdown, I*3 2d to lOd; hoggets, 50-56's, 16d to 19-'»d; 4S-50’s, 161 dto 19d; 46-48’s, lid to 19d; 44-46’s, I2’.d to 16d; 40-44’s, 13d to 14 2d. Lambsdown, up to lGtd: fine, 46-50’s, 16id to 2id; seedy and inferior, 3.'|d to 8d; bellies, good to sup., 10£d to 123 d; low to medium, 6d to 9id; seedy and inferior, Id to sd; crutchings, good to super, lid toto lid; low to medium, 7d to lOd; seedy and inferior, 3id to 63d; locks, crossbred, 6d to B|d. SOUTHERN EXCHANGES TO-DAY’S SALES Christchurch.—On ’Change: Australian Bank of Commerce, 36s 9d, 36s lOd; National Bank of Australasia (£5 paid), £9 12s Gd; Goldsbrough, Mort, 52 3d; New Zealand Breweries, 5Ss (three parcels); British Tobacco 48s 8d; Mahakipawa, Is 4ld, Is 5d (three parcels). Dunedin.—Reported: National Bank of Australasia (paid up), £l9 IQs; Dominion Rubber, 37s 6d. DULL MARKET FOR HIDES AUCKLAND AUCTIONS Most lines met with rather a dull sale at the hide and skin auctions held this afternoon by the Auckland Wool Brokers’ Association. A big portion of the offering was passed in. Prices of the lots sold under the hammer were practically on a par with those ruling at late sales. Fine wool crossbred sheepskins made to 15-id, half to three-quarter wools litd, quarter wools lOd to lltd, shorn lambs lOid; salted woolly, 10s 6d; other salted, 4s Od to 6s Gd.

Heavy ox, S.\d to 9d; medium, 7&d tc Sd; light, 6yd to 7d. Heavy cow, 71d medium, 6.' t d to 6 7-Sd; light, up to 7id. Yearling, 7’d to 9d. Best calf, to 16d; others, lid "to 12d.