WOOL SALES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2679, 15 January 1921, Page 5

WOOL SALES.

DROP OF 10 PER CENT. IN HOME MARKET. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) London, January 13. At the free wool sale there was good Home and Continental buying, aud practically all offerings sold at about 10 per cent, below the reserve® in the Government sales. There it* rather more inquiry in the Bradford market topmakers’ quotations hardening, 64’s increasing from 4s 3d to 4s 6(1. Crossbreds are irregular.

BETTER PRICES FOR HALFBREDS. Christchurch, Last Night. Better prices lor good halt-bred* were a feature of tlprd wool sale which began this morning, offering one of the largest yet recorded. Selling was all round heavier than n,t th© December sale, Bradford firms operating freely. The catalogue totalled 21,784 bales. The best prices in th© first catalogues submitted were --per merino 16d to 18$d ; super half-bred. 14d to 17d; medium half-bred lid to 14d; inferior half-bred. lOd to 12$d; medium tliree-quarttr, 7d to lOd ; inferior three-quarter. 4d to (id; medium, crossbred 5d to 6|d ; inferior crossbred, 3d to 5d : half-bred pieces. 11 Jd to 12jd: second half-bred pieces, 9d to lljd; locks 3Jd to 7d; bellies and pieces, BJd.