WOOL TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 294, 12 December 1935, Page 8

WOOL TRADE.

CHEERFUL TONE

SALE AT CHRISTCHURcn

HALTERED lip To 188 (By Telegraph.—Press Assoc, onusTcjuiijcfl, / Opening with supervSSvools f c u and 3d better than-at'the com, ' sale last year and other sorts i,?"* 5 1M to 2d, tl„ CbriaXS"! sale lield to-day reflected the ! ** standard set by New Zealand saft' in tlic season. eiri, J.here was la full nF although bidding over "the eii-f"' 81 was not particularly active, increased as the sale dvevr •% buyers were active throughout, LuS pace and securing the best of tl !l * The wool generally was in «xpp dition, lighter and almost fS. 1 * stain, which detracted from it, last year. The offerings totalW bales, compared with 18,618 last 24.921) bales in 1933. Much satisfaction was . disposal ot the first catalogue J! r< 240S bales, when it was evident tW all through showed a substantial merit. Local buyers obtained u share of the super sorts offered i, first catalogue, although the pJJ S and Jar-n were buying fairly Bradford was taking a share fij was operating among lower quality , their limits being too low to secure,! good half-bred. A good sale early hi day was six bales of super half-W wool at ISd. Pieces at 13% d and ben; B o%d Fine half-bred was ma% 15d to 1/d.

A LATER MESSAGE.

TREND OF THE MARK®,

(By Telegraph.—Press Associate

CIIRISTCHURCH, this

At the conclusion of the mornWi it was evident that good half-bred i had met with a better sale than i cipated. Competition had become ' ready with the local market, France America taking the hest of the half-It Shabby wools of doubtful quality \ selling irregularly at times. Coarser pi were about on a par with rates rife the recent Wellington sale. Beatp at the moraine sales were:—Meriaot' to 15% d: Corriedale, 18% d to 16Sd;l bred, lS'/id to 17d: three-quarterbri to 10V£d; crossbred, 12d to SSd.