WOOL SALES.
SLIGHT DECLINE IN PRICES. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TIMARU, Dec. 18. The first South Canterbury wool sale of the season concluded this morning, a catalogue of 12,173 bales being disposed of. Competition was keen for better class wools, particularly super halfbred, which realised better prices than merino. Bidding throughout the sale was steady, local mills operating freely. Prices were slightly under those ruling at the Wellington sale earlier in the week. The range of prices is as under: Merino.—Medium, 27d to 33d : low-, 25d to 26Jd.
Corriedale—First hogget, 28d to 33d; medium, 25d to 27£d. Halfbred.—Super, 29d to 34|d; medium, 23d to 264 d; average, 27d to 29d. Three-quarterbred.—Super, 25d to 27id; average, 22d to 24id; medium, 20d to 21id; low, 19d to 20d. Hoggets.—23id to 26£d. Pieces.—First halfbred, 21 id to 27<1; second, 19d to 21d ; first three-quarter-bred, 17d to 20d ; second three-quarter-bred, 15id to 16id. Dead wool. —First, 20kl to 261 d; second, 18d to 20jd. Bellies.—Halfbred, 22jd to 26d ; crossbred. 16d to 17id. Crutchings.—Fine, 16$d to 20Jd; coarse, 16d to 17.jd. Locks. —Halfbred, up to 14Id ; crossbred, lid to 13d. Stained pieces.—Up to 13d. Black wool.—lsd to 17^d.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 December 1924, Page 5
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193WOOL SALES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 December 1924, Page 5
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