DUNEDIN WOOL SALES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1764, 16 March 1921, Page 3

DUNEDIN WOOL SALES.

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, March 15. At the wool sales there was the usual attendance of buyers, but bidding was lifeless up . to Iqnch time. Certain buyers evidently wanted only a , limited quantity. The first firm sold only two lots out ol a large bomber offered and then withdrew, the next catalogue (Wright, Stephenson and Co.) was carried through, about 20 per cent, being sold. Better quality farmers’ crossbreds brought 5d to 6d. Hogget wools were preferred, and hogget lots brought up to 7 id. The great bulk of merinos from Central Otago were passed in. Very few stations’ half-bred clips were on oftei. Up to lunch the highest bid for tins class was 10id, at which it was passed First grade necks and light pieces were lower by 6d compared with January, with ihe exception ot 56 s and 60’s, which,in some cases realised up to the January bids. Competition was lifeless for scourers’ pieces, and prices were from 2d to 3d lower. Taking the sale as a whole, up to lunch the prices appeared to be about 8d less for coarse and 5d less tor fine wools compared with the last Dunedin sales. ■