AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14611, 19 February 1908, Page 8

AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, February 18. The third wool sale of the season was ’held to-day. There were not many buyers present, probably owing to the present unsettled state of the wool market at Home. There were 918 bales .catalogued, against 577 for the same eale last year. The market opened weak in all sorts, and the proportion Sold by the different brokers was only about one-third of the total offerings. Prices for inferior cross-bred wools dropped as compared with last year from Id to lid, good cross-bred dropped jjd, merino wool was Jd higher, but there was very little offering, lambs wool about £d to id better. Tho highest price realised was 9d for fine oross-bred in one instance and for choice half-bred in another. The top price for medium cross-bred wms 7d, as compared with 91(1 to 10’d last year. Coarse cross-bred sold at s|d as compared with Did last year; lambs wool at. Bd, as compared with 10Jd,_ bellies >nd pieces at 3£d as compared with 7id, and locks at Id to 2d as compared with 3id to 43d.