THE WOOL SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14225, 23 November 1909, Page 6

THE WOOL SALES.

RECORD QUANTITY LISTED.

GOOD PRICES EXPECTED.

The animation attendant upon the season's opening wool sales is becoming more accentuated; an outstanding record in quantity having been catalogued and several prominent wool-buyers having already arrived for to-morrow's sale. The total listing is no less than 7632 bales, or 2966 bales more than the quantity forwarded for the first sales of last year. The quantity in 1907 was 4380 bales, which was an increase over the previous year of 370 bales. In fact, there has been a steady increase all along the line from the 1905 sales. The catalogue totals of the various firms, together with the order of sale, commencing from nine a.m. to-morrow, are as follows ':—New Zealand Loan and Her-

cantile Agency Co., Ltd., 2604 bales (with a supplementary catalogue of about 400 bales in preparation); Alfred Buckland and Sons, 2032 bales; Dalgety and Co., 800 bales; New Zealand Farmers' Union, 850 balels; G. W. Binney and Sons, 946 bales. i Prices in unison with the satisfactory figures paid at the recent New Zealand sales are fully expected, and as this season's wool is exceptionally light in grease, by reason of the copious rains, the cards of producers are expected to turn * up trumps. While a decided improvement is evidenced in the get-up and packing of the wool there is yet a fair amount that cannot be expected to bring highest prices in the respective grades. A generally good average of returns is, however, anticipated. Super, half-breds will doubtless excite bidding in excess of Is, possibly ranging to 14£ d or 15d, while from Hid to Is will probably be obtained for mediums. Two Home trading vessels' will be in port simultaneously with the wool sales. The Shaw-Savill liner lonic arrives to-day upon her first trip to Auckland. She loads wool until Saturday, when she proceeds to

Wellington to leave for London on December 2. The Tyser liner Star of Scot-

land, which arrived at Auckland yesterday, is to load wool, skins, etc., until Saturday, having been specially detained in port for that purpose. She also sails for London via Southern ports.