THE WELLINGTON SALE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 7

THE WELLINGTON SALE

KEEN COMPETITION

(BY TEMSUKAPH—-PBESS ASSOCiATIOK.j WELLINGTON, Oct. 14. The wool Bale at Wellington to-day ; was limited to 7320 bales. "Reserves were also fixed on the B.A.W.R.A. "basis, "but they were exceeded as the ea!e progressed. Approximately 97 per cent, of this aggregate catalogue was sold, and tho prices of wool were well ahead of those at the last sale on August 19. i These latter prices were below tiie i-pre-war prices. j There was an old-tfme zest abotrt the ': competition to-day. Bradford was strongly represented, the Continent ihad ikeen buyews, America was silont (if represented at all), while Japanese attention wss confined to crutchmgt>. There was a :fair amount of unattrae-

a :iair amou or unattractive wools, including some seedy lamW wool. They were not rushed, but gooil lamtjs were in request. The run was on lialfbred and crossbred wools, and small-parcels of merino and Southdowne were keenly bid for. This is the position of tTie market compared with the prices ruling at the last August sales, the prices feeing up: Halfbred l£d to 2d per lb, .{hue crossbred l^d, medium crossbred Id io l^d, coarse crossbred Id to IJd low crossbred •fd to Id, hoggets Id to lid, Irtmbs (good') Id, crutchings par to 3d, locks, bellies, and pieces game as August sal©.