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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 131, 2 December 1908, Page 5

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1 .OX DON WOOL S A LES. POSTPONEMENT OWING TO FOG. Press Assn— By telegraph-^Copyright. LONDON, Yesterday. The wool sales wero postponed on account of a fog. NAPIER WOOL SALES. GOOD PRICES REALISED. • KEEN COMPETITION. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] . .- NAPIER, yesterday* Tho first wool sale of "the season was held to-day when over_ 0700 bales were offered. There was a large attendance of 'buyers -from-7 ; America)' England, Continent, arid southern arid local mills.' A feature of tho sale was the keen competition for all lots of wool suitable for the American market, and for best qualities of fine crossbreds, prices ranging from lOd to 12jd. » Coarse crossbreds "also -showed 'considerable rise in prices as compared with closing rates of September sales, and equal to the prices obtained in this market at the December sale of 1907. The. condition, of the wool throughout, was much better than it was last year* being better grown and in spleridid order. <■"'• A 'few lots showed that no caro had been taken in skirting. y The following is the range of prices obtained: Fine crossbreds, good, lOd, to 12£ d; medium 8d to 93d ; inferior, 6_dPolZ_d^«r»ro S SD¥ed S) 7d to B_d-;¥tedium*^d r 'te 7df pieces, first quality, 4,d to; £>_d;j, ; second quality, 3d to 4id; locks, 'l'.cl to 3d.