WOOL SALES
SOUTHERN OFFERING. MERINOS NOT SOUGHT. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) TIMARU, This Day. The second South Canterbury wool sale of the season opened last night when a catalogue of 22,272 bales was offered to a full bench of buyers, representing nearly all the wool consuming countries. The clips opened in slightly better condition than at the corresponding sale last year, being lighter in grease and. only a small percentage w 7 as tender. On the whole it w r as sound and well grown. Bidding at no stage could be called keen and at times it was very erratic. At the end of the second catalogue, at which stage about' 11,000 bales had I been disposed of, prices w T ere from par to a shade easier than at the recent Dunedin sale. Merino wool was out of favour, but | threequarter-bred- 48—HO Avas keenly sought after. Continental buyers pushed halfbreds, which. w r ent up to 21|d. The top price for threequarterbred at the of the second catalogue was 21d. Corrieclales reached 20fd, merinos 173 d .and crossbreds 17:R
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Northern Advocate, 9 February 1929, Page 16
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