WOOL SALES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 4 July 1921, Page 7

WOOL SALES

COARSE AND INFERIOR IMPROVE

(BY TEIdEGBAPET—PKESS ASSOCIATION.) ; WELLINGTON, July 4. At the woo^sales to-day 10,000 bales •were offered, and it is estimated that 90 per cent.- was sold. Fine wools were below May rates by about one penny, American competition being wholly lacking. Coarse and inferior were in demand by Bradford and the Continent, and there was an advance of three-farthings to a penny on May rates. Merino 9d to 10£ d, Southdown IOJd to 15d, medium and half-bred 7d to Bd, inferior ssd to 6|d, super crossbred 5d t<> 6d, fine 4|d to sfd, medium 3|d to 4|d, coarse 3d to 4d, inferior to seedy 2£d to 3id,, pieces and bellies Id to 3Jd, locks Id td ljd, crutehings Id to 3d; best lambs' 7d to Bd, medium lambs' 5d to 6§d, Southdown lambs' 9d to. IOJd.