WOOL SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15557, 14 March 1914, Page 7

WOOL SALES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

(Received March 15, 8.15 p.m.) London, March 13. At the London wool sales yesterday merinos sold to a strong market. Fine crossbreds were very firm and medium crossbreds somewhat irregular.

The following prices were realised for the fleece portions of the clips named:Te Apiti, top 13jd, average 12kl. Make, top 12id, average 11-;}. Tokomaru, top 13ld, average 12} d.

At Bradford business was slow. Merinos were firm, and medium crossbreds slightly easier. Fortysixes, 17Ad; forties, 16id. Other •prices were exchanged. ,

CHRISTCHURCH SALE. rELEGBAPH. —PHESS ASSOCIATION.] CHBisTCHrmciT, Friday.

The fourth and final wool sale of this season's series was held this afternoon, when 2032 bales were catalogued. There was a fair attendance of buyers. The wool mostly comprised odd lots held over from previous sales, and there were also a few late shorn clips. There was good competition for halfbred and crossbred, and prices were somewhat firmer than at the previous sale. The improvement in prices was best shown in the sale of passed-in lots from the February sale. Some lots of lialfbreds brought lid per lb more, and smaller advances were made in other lots of halfbreds and crossbreds. ' The woollen mills were not* operating to any extent in merino, and most of the best lots were passed in, while inferior and earthy lots were competed for by local wool scourers. Lambs' wool, of which there was a fair quantity offered, sold very irregularly, and a number of lots failed to reach the reserves. The range of prices was — Super merino, lid to Hid;, medium and inferior 8d to 10id ; super halfbred, 12d to 12J<1, medium 10id to Hid, inferior 91d to lOd; super Corriedale, 12d to 12id, medium and inferior 10£ d to 11 jd; super three-quarter-bred, lid to Hid, medium and inferior 9d to lOJd; medium and inferior crossbred, 7|d to lOd; longwool, B|d to %d ; Down wool, 10id to 10$ d; lambs' wool, Bid to lid ; merino pieces, 6Jd to 9|d ; halfbred pieces, 6d to lid, and up to 12d for Corriedale; crossbred pieces, 3£d to 7Jd; locks and crutchings, 3Jd to 6id.