AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1023, 12 January 1911, Page 8

AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

A DECLINE ALL ROUND. (By Telczraph—Press Association.) Auckland, January 11. The second wool r.atos of theseac-on were held to-day. 'i'hero was a full attendance of buyeis,' but competition, except for best sorts, was dull, this tains: ehieliy owiiiE to the largo proportion of inferior loir-stain-cd wool from backblocks' farms. 7326 bales were otic red, as compared with 6915 at the November sales, and from a third to. a half wcro passed in unsold, though many farmers afterwards decided to accent the prices offered. There was a ironeral decline in prices averaging about, three

farthings. Medium crossbred in light condition foil Jd.; fiuer sorts varied from par to Id. below-November rates. The market ! wao topped by 13 bales of fine half brad at lljd,, oil account of 3lr. J. H. Phillips, of" \vhangarei. i The ran so of prices was as follows:— , Fine crossbred. 95d. to 10Jd.; medium. Bd. to 9id.; inferior log-stained aud dingy. sd. . to 73d.; 'Romney. 9d. to lid.; longwool. 7d. ! to Bd.; lambs, good, 7d. to 81d.; ditto, : seedy» 61d. to 7d.; bellies and pieces, to , sid.; cotty wool, to 7Jd. . ( LONDON WOOL SALES. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., received cable advice from their London house, dated January 10, reading as follows:—"The list of arrivals is'closed, and all your wools have arrived in time. New arrivals amount to 384.CC0 bales, of which 193,0C0 bales have been forwarded direct »o manufacturers."