WOOL SALES.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue IV, 3 December 1909, Page 4

WOOL SALES.

WELLINGTON'S SECOND SERIES. The second sales by Wellington bro- | kers takes place to-day. Tho offering will amount to over 11,000 bales, j The offerings at tho December sales ■ of last year amounted to 7250 bales ! only. There is thus an increase for '■ this December sale of 3800 bales. There was also an offering of 2500 bales at i tlie last Novembr sales, as against ) 1400 bales for tho previous November, 'which, by the way, was 400 bales less [ than that of November, 1907. It will thus be seen that tho local sales are now growing in both catalogues and importance. The following comparison of Wellington highest prices, in pence, for R crossbred wools may be found inter- i

llm December, 1908, price for half- |. b red 3 was for a very 6\iperior lot. Half-bretls ranged horn 9Jd to 12dj as :i matter of fact, at that sale. „,.,„„ - „„ B

esung : — Nov. Nov. Dec. Dec. a 190719081908 1909 H Super ... 10J 8 10* 13 Medium ... 9 74 10* 10 Coarse ... 8| 6f 7i 9J Inferior ... 8 6 6J 8 Pieces ... 65 3J 5i 6* Looks ... 4i 2i 3 4}