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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 8 May 1912, Page 5

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LONDON WOOL SALES

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wellington, have received a cable from their London office, dated May 4, as follows: — The wool sales have closed, with a very firm market, As compared with closing rates of last series, line-haired super fair to good, inferior and scoured Merinos are all o per cent, higher.

Crossbreds. —Fine and medium qualities are unchanged. Coarse qualities and scoured crossbreds are 5 per cent, higher. Shabby and dingy, par to 5 per cent, lower. The total quantity of wool disposed of'was as follows: Sold to America, 10,000 bales; sold for Home consumption, 145.000 bales; sold for Continent, 100.000 bales: ] 0.000 bales were not offered, and 20,000 have been carried forward to next series.

Gillies and Nalder repoi-t a full yarding of stock at their Manaia sale on Tuesday, nearly the whole of which was sold at ruling rates. On account of Mr T. Mc-Phillips a line of Jersey heifers was sold at the following prices: £15 ss, £14 10s, £11 15s, £11 10s, £11, +o £5 10s for ore backward sort, the line of 22 averaging £11.