WELLINGTON WOOL SALE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13426, 25 March 1914, Page 8

WELLINGTON WOOL SALE.

The New Zealand Ijoan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—A supplementary wool sale in conjunction with the ordinary fortnightly wool, skin and hide sale was held to-day, when the combined brokers offered about 1200 bales of wool, besides the usual bag rt-001, skins, etc. There wa*s a large attendance of buyers, many of the oversea buyers operating. Prices were keen, and coarse-bred sold at a slight advance on last sale's rates. Good iambs' wool was perhaps slightly lew er, i)ut ni'xiium seedy and inferior lots sold quite as well as the previous'sale. The bulk of the wool offered was of rather inferior quality, being mostly, from the back country or late shorn, heavy and : .seedy. Our top price was 10-£ d for several small lots of West Coast 5.1., medium wool, and IOJd for 19 bsUes-.or flomney wool from Wanganui. We obtained "lOfd for lambs' wool from Palmorstoh North and. 10£ dto 10|d for late" shorn lambs from Ma-sterton. J*ag wool was well competed for, as also were skins and hides. Skins advanced ■on last sale id per lb, and hides from •Id to id. We quote:—Wool—Cross-' Jired fine lOd to lOfd. crossbred uned- ; ium-coarse 9d to IOJd, pieces andbolHes od to 7<li locks and stained PJ'-^ a • 4d to G^d, crutch medium-good <d to | 7id, lambs' Mto lid, inferior cross-j ' bred 8d to 9d. j