THE WOOL SALES. WELLINGTON'S CLEARIING UP AUCTION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1908, Page 9

THE WOOL SALES. WELLINGTON'S CLEARIING UP AUCTION.

A further fall iv prices was recorded in yesterday's Evening Post as^ the ch{ef feature' {if thfe* wool sale, held that afternoon.- As^the' several brokers 'progressed with their sales the- fall m pri<se»rbeGaifto more and more apparent,- an<s-Vniy- in respect of lambs' wool ware satisfactory prices realised. Dalgety and Co. secured ior a Marlborough estate the -excellent price of 14d per pound for twelve bales of scoured meriao locks; For clean lambs' wool, free of seed^ the New Zealand Loan, and Mercantile Agency Company secured iip* -to 7fd, as did Murray, Roberts and C 0.,, whil? 7id for, good crossbred! lambs' woo! was made by Abraham and Williams. Levin ,and Co. secured 7£dr Details are appended': — Levin and Co., Lamiteu'. — Fine crossbreds, 7d to 7£d ; medium crossbreds, 6d to 7d ; , coarse crossbreds., 5d to 6d ; inferior cro&stireds, ,4d ' tp 5d j pieces -and bellies, , 3d/- to , 4id ; "locks, l<f to 2%d; lambs, g00d,.-,6;£d..t0-7£d3;lainl!)s.; inaediutn, Sd io 6£d ; lambs, seedy and inferior, 2d to 4dV " • '.„.. * ' .* , United Farmers'- Co-operative Association, Ltd., 'and. the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-opsratiW Association, .Ltd.~Medium crossbred ; and Tvomn.ej'-, ..64 <to, Jd.^ crossbred and Itomney, heavy-condjtipiMsdrfand dingy, 4a.to6^d; pieces, 2^d:".to -4id{ locks, 2d to sd. - • ) ,"i. . • ,- ~■ "- Murray, Boberts. and Co.— Crossbrede, fair medjum, 6£d •to o^dy crossbreds, log* stained, s«edy, and wasfcy,""4id~ to'S^d; lambs, clean, bright, 7d to 7|<!"; lamb*, fair colour and- slightly, seedy; s£d to 6£d; lambs, badly 66edy»-2i|d--'to- Ad-; pieces and bellies, 3£dl to '4£d;. -locks 1 , f^d' to 3d. . . • • - -.r .' ,t - The New" Zealand -Loan aad -Mercantile Agency Co. — Halfbred, "Mp -to *7id~; medium to good crossbreds, s£di tb J 6|d; inferior, and faulty, 3|"d. Ip Sid's,' snpW larabsj 7d_to 7Ad;- medium lambs, 6d>to 7d; inferior and Bsedy-lambs, Vd : {o,Sdj bellies and piece's; 2£d to 3fd, j'lQcksy^ to2^d.. • . . , . ''!'"-]' ".«•/. .- Abraham , and , Williams;. .- Limitkd^ Fine crossbredj' 6Jd to 7d ; ,bnght medium- crossbred, 6^d to 6^dj^mediuin crossbred, |>54d to 6d\; infer^of^and dingy. cossbre_d,Md ."to 4£d/ Jambs,' bright, and good, condition, 7~d to '^id-; '-■*, medium lambs; 6d,S to 'o&<L- inferior/ and, seedy, 3|d to 4d;' bellie£r"s|d to 4£d; locks and pieces, 2£d to 3£d? ,-.,.- ' , Dalgety> and : Company, Xta. u -iM<kjno 7f d; to- . B£di 'mqdiuia. ;tid st 6:s t6: .Bi"d • " inferior, \6d to 7d; medium: .^rosgbr^d^^id to 7d; inferior, 4d to.Sd; "lamb's, ."best quality; - : 6fd\to ?fd . medium .quaHly> 5d to 6d; inferior .quality,, 2^d to. ,4£d; bellies and pieces, 3d ,to {jd ; stained, locks and' pieces, l^d.to 2£d; dead, sjd to 4£d ; crutchings, 2|d to 3Jd. . , - „