WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13644, 8 February 1913, Page 8

WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

INCREASE IN PMCSES,

[United PitEsa Association.]

Wellington, Feb. 7

Sixteen thousand bales were catalogued for the third wool sales of th© anco of.buyers. Some nico bright■ attractiir© lots were oftered, and on tho ■whole -the condition of the-wool offered ...'.was'above the average o f the I»uaTy oiferings.: Half-bred wa s ; -^ffflSM*: 1 iful, but lambs' wool was m aM&PP* , ply, though much of if-onrfWl-beefed. Competition was good, and the prices generally, 'Sifter making allowance lor • condition, showed an advance oi Mto ■id per lb above the January rates, ljho range of prices to-day, compared with January Bth last, was as follows, (Janliarv Bth prices given in parenthesis): Merino super (IOJd to Hid).; none offorin<^; iUt'iuio (9id t o 10d), none ottering; half-bred super (up to 12Jd), none oftermtr- 3 half-bred medium (IOJ-d to ni«) s 10"|d to Hid; llomnoy super (12d^ to (2M), none* ottering; crossbred super (lid to 12d) 103 dto 12Jd; crossbred, medium, (93d to .10|d), 93-d to lid; crossbred, interior and coarse (B.sd~to 9'd) 83d to 9^d; Lincoln and Lincoln cross (Bid- to Ojd), BJd to: W\d; dead wool (up to BJ-d) UP to 8-»(1 J pwves (/ a« to 9id), 63d to 7-d; bellies (7^d to 8;jd), 6jd to 7-^d; stained pieces and loelcs (skl to 6Ad), 5d to SJ-d; cmtchings (6id to'7f]d), Ofd to 7^-d; lambs' super (lid to 12-|d), 11-J-d to 12d ; lambs' met Hum, (9Jd to lOiJd), 9^d to 103 d.