NAPIER WOOL SALES
(liy Tcle'jroph.—Vress- Association.) NAPIER, Last Night. The third and last wool sale of the season, under the. auspices of the Napier Wool-brokers' Association, was h-rid to-day. There was a representative- attendance of buyers, and 7325 bales were offered, against 3725 for the corresponding sale of la.st year. The bulk of the catalogue comprised dingy and seedy back country clips and lambs wool, not many bright, well-conditioned lots being submitted. As compared with the. January sale of this year to-day's pricey showed an improvement of a farthing per lb for medium fleece wools, and. a farthing to a halfpenny in the coarse lots. Lambs wool sold at par, the highest price obtained being 12-} d. No American sorts were offered in fleece wool. The appended is the range of prices, the figures for the corresponding sale last year being given in parenthesis: Medium -Abred Od'to 92d'(8-$d to 10id); fine x-bred IOJd to lid (9d to 9£d); medium x-bred Old to lid (Sd to 9Jd); coarse x-bred 9d to TOd (7d to 8jil); inferior x-bred 8d to 9d (6£-d. to. 7d); pieces 6d to 9cl (scl to 7fd); bellies Gel to Bd' (5d to GJd); locks'-tid to s*d (3d to 4>|d); lambs 7d to 12id (Rd to 10 Jd). ■
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 February 1913, Page 5
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