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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13009, 10 January 1908, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OP. ASSOCIATION OF CANTERBURY, LTD. The third sale of the series was commenced on January Bth and finished on January . 9th. Catalogues totalled 17.863 bales, and were mostly cleared, the withdrawals consisting chiefly of passed-in lots from previous sales, for which bidding dragged. The sale was noted for the brisk bidding for all finer wcols and bright ctobshreds. merinos particularly being in demand, the colonial woollen mills taking all this at prices considerably above English, Continental, or American buyers' limits, and the came remaTk plies also to best 'halfbreds, and at the conclusion of tho sale the buyers' Tβappeared to be stiH tmsaiisned. Bradford and Oontinental buyers competed keenly for all daasee of croeebreds and meuinro halfbreds, and any ris«» in value, ivas most notioettblo in good tiiree-quartea-breds. whilst fellmongers competed for ail dirty wools, but for these and pieces no advance, btit Ta-ther th& reverse, can be noted. The condition of the bulk of the wool was not so good as the December eaJe,