WOOL SALES
LONDON SERIES. Press Association —Bt TelegTiiph—Copyright LONDON, November 18. (Received Nov. 19, at 8.40 p.m.) The week's wool sales closed firm, with keen bidding for all classes, especially crossbreds. The following prices were realised for fleece portions of the New Zealand clips named:—G P D clip, top 26^1, average 25|d; Cameron, top 26d, average 25d; W. 8., top average 16* d. There were sold for the Home market 98,000 bales, for the Continent 13,000 bales, and for the United States 12,000 bales, while 2200 bales were held over. United States buyers supported greasy crossbreds and slipes. The Home trade was remarkably active in the shabbier and faulty sorts. The Russian demand for scoured merinos was persistently maintained. All greasy combing merinos were 7£ per cent, above the opening rates, and faulty carbonising were generally 5 per cent, above last sales. Greasy crossbreds advanced from to 10 per cent., scoured from 2d to 3d, finer slipes Id, coarser and faulties to 2d. Crossbreds advanced 10 per cent, and merinos 5 per cent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16546, 20 November 1915, Page 8
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173WOOL SALES Otago Daily Times, Issue 16546, 20 November 1915, Page 8
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