LONDON WOOL SALES.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12459, 8 February 1909, Page 1

LONDON WOOL SALES.

[Pkess Association. — Copyright.] (Received Feb 8, 1 a.m.) London, Feb 7. The wool sales closed strong with most sorts at; the highest level of the series. Choice seventies and merinos were equal to the London prices of January last year; sixty fours suitable for 'America- were a penny below the November-December rates. - There was a strong and steady competition for average combings for the Home trade, and the Continent, at full December rates. Topmarkers in crossbreds were firm at the Dec- ' ember rates, and parcels suitable for America showed a ten per cent advance on the December rates. r During the series 93,000 bales were sold for the Home market, 88,000 for the Continental market, and 12,000 for America, 8,000 being held over.