WOOL SALES.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 151, 25 January 1906, Page 2

WOOL SALES.

. » Telegraph Presß Association Oopyneht Tuiabu, Jan 24. The third wool sale of the season was held here this morning, when five thousand bales were offered and nearly all were disposed of, merinos being the chief lots passed in. Coarser grades of wool showed an improvement of a to $d compared with the previous Timaru sale. Half-bred wool brought about the same and merino was disappointing in that it did not fetch within a £d of the owners' reserves in the major* ity of cases. Prices ran as follows : —Superior half-bred Hid to 12£ d, medium lOd to ll£d, fine three quarter crossbred 10£ dto ll£d, medium 9fd to 10£ d, superior cross bred 9&d to lOd, medium Bfd to 9*d, Bbabby lots 7£d to 8&d, merino lOd to lid, pieces half bred 8d to B|d and up to lid for extra choice, threequarter bred 74d to Bd, merino 91 to 10£ d.