CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1909, Page 8

CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALE.

[BY TSLEGBAFH — PBESS ASSOCIATION.! CHMSTCHURCH, 9th Dec. The opinion of buyers at the" end of to-day's wool sale was that fine wools were a shade easier, and medium and inferior wools firmer. For these classes there was competition amongst local buyers and speculators. Top prices at the November sale for best half-bred was 15£ d, while 14fd was the highest price reached to-day. It is admitted, however, that the pool was in better condition for the November sale, and that the special clips tha£ brought the highest prices we're paddock sheep, whereas most of the best halfbred and other fine crossbred clips offered to-day were from front hill stations. To-day there was> more general competition among outside buyers. Two Continental buyers who came over from Australia were prominent in the bidding, along with American buyers. A certain amount of business was done for Bradford, but bnyeis from that quarter were not so prominent in their efforts to secure wool as American and Continental representatives. Most of the small offering of merino was taken by local woollen mills, and local wool scourers secured the larger proportion of lines suitable for their business at the previous sale, and it was their competition that no doubt assisted firm prices for other than choice quality wools.