LONDON WOOL SALES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 19 November 1923, Page 2

LONDON WOOL SALES.

Messrs :Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house, under date of the 14th instant: — "Wool sales closed, competition very animated. Continental buyers are the

principal operators fox mt'rinos. York-shire-competing for suitable lots. English buyers competing strongly for all crossbreds. Continent' buying .finer va-

: rietie3. As compared with last ssrle's closing rates, greasy merino wools * prices unchanged; scoured merino wools prices unchanged except short faulty wools 9coured, for which prices are Id to 2d lower. Greasy half-bred wool, prices unahamged; crossbred wools, fine quality, greasy, Id to Hd higher; medium quality greasy, Id higher; coarse greasy Id higher; scoured crossbred wools, Id to 2d lower; fine quality crossbred woo:!s, scoured^ Id to 24

lowqr; crossbred wools of other desoriptioHS, prices unchanged; sliped wools, Id to 2d higher, particularly for fine. Fine quality crossbred lambs, -i-d- to Id higher; coarse and medium lambs' wool, prioes unchanged; inferior lambs' weoly p'riees irregular occasionally. 128,000 baLas free., 61,000 8.A.W.R.A., catalogue, 17<>,OGO..sold, including 12,000 South American, 64.000 to the Continent, 105,000 home trade, IOGO to America, carry forward 26,000, of which 17.500 has not- been offered.

Next public sales will take place on December .3, with a break on 6th and 17th December owing to the elections. ! The following is the range.of prioes:— j Mierino. good to super 27d to 29d, low to medium, 22id to" 26d; halfbred, 56's [to 58's, good to- super 25d to 28d, low to medium 20d to 231 d : halfbred, 50's to sQ's. good t-T. super 19d to 22d, low to medium 17d to 18id; halfbred, 48's to 50's. good to super 16i, low to- medium, 143 d to 16d;~fine crossbred, 46's to 48's, gcod to super 15d to 16£ d. low to medium, 12* dto 14-|d: crossbred, 44's to 46's. good to super l3id to lod. low to medium, lHd to* 12id; crossbred 40's to 44's, good to siiper 13|d, low to medium IO.Vd to- Hi ; coarse crossbred, 36's to 40's, super 12d; medium to good, 9|d to 10^d.