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Evening Star, Issue 19143, 9 January 1926, Page 10

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CTIPJ-STGIIURCII WOOL SALES. For paucity of passings tho Christchurch wool sale about constitutes a record, as of the 20,000 bales ottered only dll were passed at auction. A good few of these were sold during me day. . . Whilst tho prices not sufficiently advanced from tho moderate figures previously ruling to enthuse farmers, tho general atmosphere of the market was very satisfactory indeed. The following was the range of prices :• —• , „„„ , Merino.—Super, ” f H<l 1° ; medium, 18d to 20d; inferior, 14'd to 17 id. „ . Corricdalc. —Super, la id to ,^d; medium, 1V Vcl to Bid; interior, lod to 17d. Fine Half-bred.--Extra super and super, 19|d to 2Lfd; modhim, .Hid to LPin ; iincrior, 14id to I7d. Medium Half-bred.—Super, I Sid to 201 d; medium, 16d to ISd; interior, 13 id to lo'.d. Coarse Half-bred.—Super, Hid to 1D(d; medium, I4Jd to lid; interior, 10d to 14id. Three-quarter-brcd.- —Extra super, to 18id; super, LHd to 15); medium, I2d ■ to L3}d; inferior. Old to HJd. Medium Cross-bred. -Super, Mid to 15d; medium, ll)d to Lid; inferior, Did to Hid. Coarse Cross-bred.— Super, 12Jd to 14id; medium, Hid to ,12.1 d; inferior, 9d to lid. Merino Pieces.—lid to H-Jo ; half-bred pieces—firsts 13id to 16id, seconds 8d to 13d. , , , Locks. —Merino, GUI to lOfitl; ballbred, 7id to lOJd; cross-bred, Cd to 7 J d. —Good, lOd to 13id; low to medium, 7td to 9id. Crutchings.— I Good, 7?.d to lOJd; low to medium, oid to 7-id.