LONDON WOOL SALES.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 11

LONDON WOOL SALES.

•' x , „ LONDON, 3rd February. On the Bradford tops market there is a slightly better tone. Crossbreds are quiet, but there is more inquiry for merinos. Sixty-fours quality, 46d per lb; sixties, 43d; fifty-sixes, 33d; fifties, 25d-forty-sixes, 20% d; forties, 19% d. ..,2- X The Department of .Agriculture Has'received the following cablegram, dated 3rd February, from the High Commissioner .: f25 M&L Zea]agjL / _i|ondoߣ—'"STool eafeflj

closed Wednesday. Competition activ* and sustained throughout. Home trs3 strongly supported crossbred, and FrencH and Belgian operated freely, particularly! in merino. Compared with last closing rates, finest merino 7% per cent.. ordS nary par to 5 per cent;,,fine crossbred and wTT cr°ss^ ed 5 Per cent., coarse cross! bred barely 5 per cent, higher. Total S 1 1 03 '000 were 80ld ' Continent taknj 56 000, home trade 44,000, and Americl 3000 bales. Average closing values^. 60-64 s merino, nominally Is 6%d to 3 o%d (nothing representative offered £ i m3-,^de); 56's, super half bred, Is 9d k to kW% dium <***«* ■!■ 2*5 H-Uit i ' n?, 6j40 S< T coarse crossbred, li 15th llarcl,—' ■*«*."«*" c<~3