WOOL PRICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1925, Page 9

WOOL PRICES.

AT THE CHRISTCHURCH SALE,

TIMARU RATES MAINTAINED. miiDixr; still slack. r..r Telegraph. — Press As«.-i.-;.itio_.i CimiSTCIIUIK 11, Thursdny. The third fhris I church wool sale of the season xvas commenced this evening. ii'lien .fifii) odd bales 0 f a catalogue of 20.(100 were offered. The wool was heavier in condition than at ihe prelum.-, sale. There was a. lull bench ot buyers. Trice* -howed h substantial drop oil all classes compared xvit.li the .Janunrv sale, to an cxient of from _id to 3d for'crosslueils and up to J'.,l on liner wools. However, ;.iken all round the sale was a sounder one than at Timaru on Saturday. American and local competition iv.is more prominent than previously lor halfbred xvool, and a correspondinglY lighter proportion xvent to English boxers. A good deal of Merino woo] went, 'n the Ir.ttrr direction, and a fair proportion of the coarser wool xvent to Continental representatives. Several of the most prominent Kngiish buyers at previous sales ) lilc ] short buying commissions this evening. -■'he top price xvas ."I2id for 16 hales ot a Blenheim (Weld's Hill) clip. The bidding generally xvas Mark, and Hi per cent of the first catalogue of ;.0<)0 bale.-- xvas passed.