WOOL TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 281, 27 November 1931, Page 4

WOOL TRADE.

LONDON SALES

(Rcecivcd 12 noon.)

LONDON, November 26,

At the wool sales 12,710 bales were offered, including 3623 New Zealand. About 7075 bales were sold. There was a good demand on Home and Continent account. Prices were steady. New Zealand scoured halfbred, Gerard, top price 20d, average 17% d; slipes, Geave, 13% d and 9%d.

BRADFORD TOPS.

'•QUIETLY STEADY." (Received 12 noon.) BRADFOBD, November 26. At Bradford the market is quietly steady, and business moderate. Business is quiet, awaiting London sales. Prices are unchanged. To-day's quotations compare as follow with those previously cabled: — Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. 21). 5. 12. 19. 20. fl. il. d. d. d. Sixty-fours .... 25 25 255 25J 255 Sixties 23 23 233 235 235 Fifty-sixes .... 171 17 & 171 175' 10 S Fifties 134 135 135 13J 145 Forty-sixen 115 115 115 115 12 Fortiea 11 11 11 11 11

TO-MORROW'S SALE.

KEEN INTEREST DISPLAYED. Especial interest is being taken iu the Auckland wool sale, which opens in the Town Hall conccrt chamber to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock. Not only is it the first of the season for the Auckland province, but it also marks the commencement of the Dominion fixtures for marketing the new clip. The catalogue, which is only slightly short of 23,000 bales, is large enough to command the attendance and keen interest- of buyers representing all the chief wool consuming countries, so that the prices realised should constitute an excellent guide for subsequent sales that will shortly follow in other parts of the Dominion. The tone of the London market as disclosed by the sales now proceeding in the British metropolis is encouraging, and growers are hopeful of better returns than were available last season.