WOOL SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1293, 23 November 1911, Page 6

WOOL SALES.

(By Telegraph—Pross Association.) Auckland, November 22. Tho first- wool sale of tho season commented to-day. Tho quantity of wool offered wus 6222 bales. Tho buyors appeared satisfied with tho wool as far as the quality is concoriied, but their remarks showed that the wool-growers have yet to realise that a little moro care in the sorting and packing of their wool would-pay handsomely. Tho general trend of the sale showed that the-prices, as compared with last year's, were from 3d. to 13d. per lb., lower, coarse and bushy wools suffering least, and mitehings, bellies, and pieces selling woll at prices only a little below those of las.t year. Tho following is a comparative statement of prices realised at the sale, and at the last year's November fale:—Fine halfbrcd ajid merino, 1911 sale, 9d. to IOJd. 11910, 9id. to lHd.); fine crossbreds, 1911, 9d. to lCjd. (1910, 9d. t-o lljd.); Shropshire and Honinev, 1911, B£d. t-o 93d. (1910, 9d. to 10jd.); medium crossbred. 1911, 71d. t-o BJd. (1910, Bd. to 9H1); Lincoln and coarse crossbred, 1911, 63d." to 7}d. (1910. 7id. to 83d.); inferior and logFtaincd, 1911, 6id. to 7d. (1910, 7id. to 6(1.1. The market was topped by a lino of halflured merino sold for Messrs. Carey Brothers to the Onohunga Woollen Mills, at lid. per lb.