LONDON WOOL SALES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19123, 18 September 1936, Page 8

LONDON WOOL SALES

COMPETITION STRONG

EXCELLENT SELECTION

(Ileed. Sept. 18, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17.

At, the. London wool sales to-day, 11,047 bales were offered, including 5820 New Zealand, and 9424 were sold. There was an excellent selection and competition was strong, especially from the Home trade. Rates wore, well main ; tained.

Prices were : New Zealand slipe- hall-iiin-d lambs, Fail-field, top 17Id, average 16(jd.

Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Company. Limited, are in receipt of the following cable, message from London: Fixly/sixiy-fouis. New Zealand merino, yielding 48 per cent, none offering: 56 s. {yielding 64 per cent, 12R1 (113 d) 80 s, yielding 70 per cent, (9£d); 48/50’s, -mixed prep, and carding, yielding 1 2 -per, cent, UJd 1 (9*l)-; 46/48-s, mixed prep. and> carding, yielding 74 per cent, 9-Jd (83d); 44/46’s, prop., yielding 76 per cent, 9id (8.3 d); 44/46’s, carding, yielding 74 per cent, 9RI (BJd) ; 40/44’s, yielding 75 iier cent, 91d (83d) ; 36/40’s, yielding 76 per cent, none- offering, (73d).” The prices shown in parentheses are the - closing rates of the previous series.