WOOL SALES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 25 August 1919, Page 5

WOOL SALES

BY CABLE—PBESB ASSOCIATION— COPYEICHI LONDON, Aug. 22. Ihe wooi sales have closed jj'or tha highest series there was good* competition throughout. Trance was partiou* larly active, and the United States helped by the exchange, purchased ireely, especially good style wools. Th» Home trade was active. Seventy thousand bales were catalogued and practically all sold. Super combing menhos were keenly competed for particularly by the United States' antF Jranoe, at 10 to 15 per cent, above tfca last closing a-ates. Fine crossbreds which were in good demand for the Continent and Yorkshire, were 10 per cent up, medium being 5 per cent, up, an,d low firm and unchanged. Pino sooureda were 10 per cent, up, low being dearer tine sbpe s harder, others unchanged* New Zealand "Lumsden Hills" brought ZOUi