CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15511, 11 January 1911, Page 11

CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALES.

. TO-MORROW’S AUCTION. The third wool- sale, of .the 1.910-11 season will be openod at the Alexandra. Hall to-morrow morning at . nine o’clock, when catalogues aggregating 19,778 bales will he offered, compared with 22,798 at the corresponding sale last year. The iollmving table shows the order of life sale and the number of bales which' will be offered by each of the seven firms taking, part in the auction : .. ■ Ba!«». 1. Mr'-sri, By nr and Co. . ' , 5679 2. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co, , ... 3943 0. N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op! Association ,1393 4. Messrs FriedlaJidor Bros'., i- - . .637 5. Messrs H, Matson and Co/ i 2046 a. Messrs Dalgetr and . Co. ... . . .. 454 G 7. National Mortgage and Agency Co. 1369 Total . . . , ... . '*•;.' 19,778 The following table shows flicnumber of bales offered at the-correspond-ing sales during recent years:— • - 'Bale*. January.. 5995 ' * . .'■■ 20,-Md -i an us ry, 1906 (first sajoi . ' '* 16,1.16 January, .1906 (second sale! , 827,2 January, 3907 . ' . *,16,502 January, 1909 ... . • *. 37.826 January, 160!)' . - ». . • 19,098-./; January. 193 ft , * 23.798'"