WOOL SALES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8681, 14 March 1914, Page 9

WOOL SALES

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 13. 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 oyer from the previous sale, and there were also a few late shorn clips. There was g<jiod competition for halfbreds and crossbreds, and prices were somewhat firmer than at the previous sale. The improvement in prices was best shown in the sale of paseed-in lots at the February sale. Some lots of halfbreds brought Ijd more, and smaller advances were made in other lots of halfbreds and crossbreds. The woollen mills were not operating to any extent in merinos, and in most of 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

WELLINGTON SALE. A quantity of wool Laving come to Land since the last sale, tne Wellington brokers have decided to hold a supplementary sale on Friday next in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall, when about 1000 bales will b© submitted to auction. Following upon the offering of wool, there will be the usual fortnightly sale of skins, hides, and tallow.

prices was: — d. d. Super merino - 11 to Hi Medium and inferior 8 to 191 Super balfbred 13 to 13-1 Medium 10i to 111 Inferior - m to 10 Super Corriedale 13 to 12! Medium and inferior 10! to Hi Super bbree-quarterbred... ii to uj Medium and inferior 9 to iOJ Medium and inferior crossbred . 7$ to 10 Longwool 8* to 9! Down wool 10i to loj Lambs’ wool . 81 to ii Merino pieces Of to 9! Halfbred pieces 6 to ii Corriedale pieces up to 12 Crossbred pieces 84 to 7i Looks and crutcbings Hi to 6J