WOOL VALUES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 302, 22 December 1939, Page 4

WOOL VALUES.

APPRAISAL AT DUNEDIN

MERIXO VALUES UP TO 19% D

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DUXEDIX", Thursday. Appraisements i u connection with the Imperial wool purchase scheme have been proceeding eince Monday, and the final catalogues were dealt with to-day. The combined brokers brought forward catalogues totalling 21,431 bales, and within a teu- days it is expected that full instructions will be issued for wools which have to be shipped to the United Kingdom. ijOcai mills have also been busjr selecting their requirements and have been allocating then- quantities.

The clip, on the whole, although for the most part of good colour, was somewhat ra t c .hy and was much lighter in condition than was the case last year A fair proportion of the wool ehowed signs of severe weathering, but the bulk of the clip exhibited better quality than was generally anticipated.

In Meuaoe, the Puketoi dip again, comFor three l ? ta. very attractive lines of super nine halfbreds were offered, one four-bale lot carrying the brand TC/Strathclyde being appraised at 19Hd, top price for halfbred in New Zealand.

■ T f 5 ? 0 * 1 * 1 a PP ra isement for Dunedin is listed for January, IMO.

The official range of prices, with the rates ruling at the December sale in fol'low "— year in parentheses ' ar e as

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*WB—Super, lajd to }„%; i, Jo 120); averase, IVrt to 131 dma to 10W. interior, JOJd to ma (8d to 0% Sr&tofr 13d to

- M to rt ?«,l eC ?. B and super Hid" (_): SUper ' 12d to WW (04d to to^M , *? ? eeks and Piec es—Estra super

UPWARD TREND. BRADFORD TOPB MARKET. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LOXDON, December 21 ford^rs^r^rtr^s machinery i. fully employed in all secUons