WOOL PRICES FIRM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 12

WOOL PRICES FIRM

FINAL NAPIER SALE | , MANY INFERIOR LOTS Press Association NAPIER, Friday. The final Napier wool sale of the season was held to-night. In an offering of 7,779 bales, a few attractive clips were catalogued, but there was really very little that could be described as anything better than average type, while a. good proportion of the lots were of shabby, rough and inferior sorts. For wools of decent style and quality there was excellent general comi petition from Bradford and the Con* i tinent, the latter probably being the larger purchaser. Shabby and seedy lots were in rather better demand than at the previous sale. Prices were slightly in advance of the last sale’s rates, but at times bidding was erratic, making comparisons difficult. It is pleasing to note that the market at the close of the season shows the firmness it displayed at to-night’s sale.

AUCKLAND WOOL

FINAL SALE CATALOGUE The third and final Auckland wool sale fo.r the 1925-29 wool selling season will be held on April 11. Indications at the moment are that a catalogue of approximately 3,000 bales will be offered to buyers. At the corresponding sale of last year an offering of approximately 2,500 bales came forward. The offering will comprise odd lots, including a fair percentage of passings from the February sale. At that fixture slightly under 3 0 per cent., or 2,500 bales, were passed in at auction. Part of this was disposed of privately after the sale, and some was shipped Home on consignment. One big line of slipe wool, in particular, which failed to bring the reserve at the Auckland sale, should reach Home in time for the April fixture. In all, it is nut expected that the carry-over from the February fixture will amount to many hundred bales. The greatest part of the catalogue should be made up of odd lots drawn from the district —stragglers' wools, crutchings, late shorn lots, and a good percentage of lambs’.

CALL-MONEY RATE

NINE PER CENT. IN NEW YORK {Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Thursday. The rate Txr call money was steady at 9 per cent, throughout the day. TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, reports: "YVe held our Te Awamutu sale yesterday, when we submitted a good yarding of cattle and sheep, which met with steady competition throughout, beef was penned in fairly large numbers and realised prices slightly in advance of recent markets. Weaner Jersey heifers and well-bred Shorthorn steers sold at most satisfactory figures, also breeding ewes and lambs. We quote: Fat steers, £ll 6s to £ll 19s; fat cows, £S 11s to £9 3 6s; lighter do., £7 2s fid to £8 ss; plain fat cows, £fi Is to £6 ,17s fid; other killable cows. £5 2s fid to £5 17s 6d; boner cows, £2 10s to £4 2s fid; bulls, £4 10s to £«. weaner Jersey heifers, good quality, £4 13s to £5 12s; medium do., £4 to £4 4s; best weaner S.H. steers, £4 13s to £5 2s; others, £4 2s to £4 ss; springing heifers, £9 to £ll 10s; sound mouth ewes, £ 1 3s Id to £1 5s 6d; more aged do., 14s fid to 18s; shorn ewe lambs, £1 2s to £1 4s 6cl; m.s. woolly lambs, £1 0s Id; m.s. shorn lambs, ISs 8d to £1 0s 9d. Porkers, £2 2s to £2 Ss; stores, 26s to 345; slips, 15s to 21s; weaners, 4s to 8s; dairy heifers, £9 to £ll 10s. BUTTER MARKET Trengrouse and Nathan Ltd., London, agents for Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co., report: Butter—-Spot market weaker; Australia, 160 s to 1625; New Zealand, 1645; white cheese, SSs; coloured, S9s. A. H. Turnbull and Co., from their London principals, W. Weddel and Co., Ltd., under date March 22:—"Butter, Danish, 168 s to 170 s; New Zealand, unsalted, 168 s to 1725; salted. 163 s to 1645; market slow. Cheese, New Zealand, white, SSs to S9s: coloured, S9s to 90s; market steady; Canadian, white, 108 s to 112 s; coloured, 106 s to 110 s.” AUCTION NOTES Richard Arthur, Ltd., acting under instructions from the executors in the estate of A. C. Caughey, will sell by public auction at their salerooms, Wednesday, April 24, at 2 p.m., valuable freehold properties in the city and suburbs. Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd advertise in this issue details of their usual weekly and country sales, also particulars of a sale next Tuesday, at 23 Kurangahape Road, Newton, of-a butcher’s shop, plant and fittings. Squirrell and Co. will sell by auction on the premises, la Norana Avenue, Remuera, on Wednesday next, March 27, at 11 a.m., a most comprehensive range of high-class furnishings and general sundries.