NAPIER WOOL SALE.

Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1933, Page 5

NAPIER WOOL SALE.

WELLINGTON RATES MAINTAINED.

NAPIER, March 13. The fourth wool sale of the current season was held to-day, the catalogue comprising 17,823 bales. There was the usual good attendance of buyers, and bidding was well spread, Bradford, Germany, France and Australia being well to*the fore, with Japan strongly in evidence for lines suitable for their requirements. The bulk of the offering consisted of average style wools, many showing seed in varying degrees, and some being totally unskirted and rather mOre hairy than usual. Compared with the last sale here superior style crossbreds and fine wools generally sold at prices firm on February rates; average crossbreds, medium and coarse showed a decline of a farthing and sometimes in very shabby low sorts, fully a halfpenny. Lambs 1 wool was somewhat irregular. Pieces and bellies were in good demand and realised well up to last sale's values, Continental operators being prominent in the competition for these sorts. The range of prices is not available but one broker supplies the following comparison with February rates:—Halfbreds, par; good average 46/48, par; good average 44/46, par to 3d down; average 40/44, par to |d down; average 36/40. par to id down; all inferior wools, down; pieces and bellies, par; lambs' wool, par to Id down. Generally speaking, the prices throughout the sale were on •-of-par with Wellington rates.—(P.A.)