LOCAL WOOL OFFERING

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 8

LOCAL WOOL OFFERING

At the fortnightly Wellington hide and sheepskin sale yesterday. about:-550 bales of wool, including, "binned" wool,: were offered, together with fadges and bags. There was a good attendance of' buyers, and keen .competition' took place for the wool, which ■ consisted mainly of ci-oss-bfeds, skirtings, and binned wool, with odd bales of bellies, pieces, and locks. The, principal offering was 3(JO bales by ,the Loan and Mercantile Company,' who disposed of this quantity at prices, according to quality, from Id to 2d ad--vance on last sale.. A few bags of small lots' were' offered by other brokers,, satisfactory prices-being realised.' This clears up all the wool'ready. and-available for sale by the Loan and Mercantile Company; and there is little wool left in Wellington to offer. ■■■'•'•."■."

season virtually ended with the ■March sale, which is unusually early, 'as ■•the Wellington, sales have usually run into' April arid even May. The shearing and , the weather were, good, enabling everyone to.cut out promptly,", and the early sales opening ,well induced growers to dispatch their wool promptly. There was. a. very strong demand for sheepl 6kins. ; -..-■. „ .

Messrs'. Murray, Eoberls, and Go.!s,offering averaged 19id, a considerable advance on the March sale.' , . ■