CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALES.
BETTER TONE TO-DAY. . (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■ CHRISTCHURCH, this day. | i Heavier buying and a higher rate for < half J bred wools were the outstanding features of the second wool sale this 1 morning. Representatives of Home firms, - fellmongers and New Zealand mills . • were present, and there was keener I > competition up to a point. Jn nearly ! every class coarse wools grew weaker . 1 as the sale proceeded. The catalogue j < totalled 5861 bales. In the first part of ! ' the sale, prices for half-bred wools , ' were up to £d a pound, better than at I the November sale. Prices for three- ; • quarter bred wools showed a decline of i' about Jd a pount: price* for coarse j wools a decline of from H to 3d per : j pound. The top range of prices was as ' follows: Super half-bred 15Jd, medium; , 13d, super threoquarter Hid. medium j * DJd, super crossfored SMd, medium 7}d.j : first crossbred pieces 13d, second | ! assorted pieces lljd. j'
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 292, 7 December 1920, Page 7
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163CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALES. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 292, 7 December 1920, Page 7
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