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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1924
Page
3
The text notes uneven demand for medium parts especially earthy or burr, frequent withdrawals, strong competition for comeback and crossbred, easier values in four grades. Yearly sales closed last Thursday and will renew after the recess on January 12. Catalogue of 1, B44 bales to be submitted. Since the last sale, auction and private sales total 10,100 bales sold.
Report from sehave Bell and Co Ltd notes market stability in wool sales with occasional regularity. Demand remains high as buyers from America and France compete. Ravensworth sale shows strong results and high bids, with top price reached and quality clips from Southern Tablelands and other regions.
A special cattle sale on Wednesday 17th attracted 1,000 head yarded by Edmund Jowett, arranged by A W Cleaver with Bedford Taylor and Weston Ltd. Buyers came from Tocumwal to Orange, as prices held firm with bullocks £6/18, cows £8/10, heifers £4, vealers £2/6, and veal prices steady amid cautious trading and steady wool demand.
The Wool trade will pause for the Christmas recess as Hobart plans a January sale and boundary actions begin January 12. The first half of the season has shown excellent results for fine wool, with confidence that values will not sharply decline, though market fluctuations from January to April are likely. Prices have risen about 20 percent since September, with mixed expectations for further gains.
Wool auctions at Pitt with Badgerys Ltd saw strong competition from English American Continental and Japanese buyers. Better combing wools and merino crossbreds stayed sought after while superfine lines remained scarce. The sale catalogue offered 6810 bales of medium to good wools and 5808 bales sold since the last sale. The market outlook remains firm for the New Year sale.
Winchcombe Carson Ltd reports irregular woolled sheepskins prices with lambs and pelts selling late. Full wool merinos sold to 264d. wools to 24d. lambs 184d to 224d. pelts to 14d. Lincolns to 144d. Hides weaker with country heavy hides 1d to 6d per lb. calves and yearlings slightly lower. large country yearlings to 7s 6d each.
Auction entries cover prices for tallow, gendow, rabbitekinn, winters, polty, bereskinn, and other hides. Details list rates per ton, per dozen, and per pound, with upcoming sale dates noted for January, including rabbitskin, tallow, sheepekine, and hides.
Various quirky reports from Moyhu and surrounding areas describe peculiar methods and experiments. A man uses a fish hook and rose bush to capture a large black snake under a verandah. Other notes include poultry experiments by Mr Proctor near Hay, and social critiques from Brisbane about colonial treatment of aborigines.
A sprawling 1920s style list records fixtures across regions with dates and clubs from Bedgerabong to Dubbo J C. It also reports a council decision to cooperate with Ilabo Shire on a voluntary capital value tax for a new district hospital and notes a bargain wireless sale on the Melbourne waterfront featuring two complete wireless sets.
Mr J Owens Stock Inspector submitted a report noting plentiful feed and water across the district, healthy stock with few disease instances, lambs possibly affected by grace but flies declined after shearing, rabbits plentiful on some holdings, and several reserves mostly free of trespass. Inspectors in Euchareena Stuart Town Wellington Yeoval Cumnock Manildra Eugowra Cudal and stock agents were instructed to remind sheepowners applying for permits to travel sheep to comply with paste inked sharp branding and T-letter requirements.
A New York Times special correspondent analyzes how prohibition failed in Saskatchewan and the Western provinces. It argues drive to homes and a thriving home brew industry spurred bootlegging, undermined law, and diverted revenue from the provincial treasury. The Times notes British Columbia Manitoba Alberta and Saskatchewan each reversed prohibitions by 1920, 1928, 1924 respectively, citing infringed liberties, public contempt for law, and hypocrisy as key motives.
W. O. Moad, Western representative for Aladdin Lamps, promotes the Aladdin light as the best in the world and lists Western Stores in Wellington and McGuire as access points for the lamp and accessories.
Wellington and District customers are informed that the boot repairing department in Lee Street, formerly run by Mr T. H. Smith, has been taken over. The new proprietor promises best work and material, with careful personal attention to every repair.
An advertisement promises customers will become permanent buyers at F. J. HL Smith's Boot Shop on Lee Street after trying a single pair, claiming easy trial and guaranteed customer loyalty.
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