WELLINGTON WOOL SALE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19773, 22 February 1927, Page 9

WELLINGTON WOOL SALE

BROKERS’ REPORTS. WRIGHT, STEPHENSON AND ABRAHAM AND WILLIAMS. Messrs Wright, Siephenson and Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report as follows: For the fourth Wellington sale of the i current series we offered 4065 bales and sold 4002. All the buyers were pr« sent and a splendid clearance was under the keenest competition until the very end of the sale. Bradford and the Continent absorbed most of the offciiiig, America again only being interested in super lots. Prices as a whole were firmer than in January probably to the extent of £d per lb for fleece wool, but the feature of the sale was the extraordinary keen demand for good prices and Jambs' wool, these sorts showing an appreciation of at least Id to lAd. Binned and, reclassed wool were in great favour and sold exceedinglv well. Some of the priebs were:—Halfbred from 16d to 18|d, hoggets 12d to 15|d, fine crossbred 13d to 16£d, medium crossbred 12d to 13d, coarse crossbred 12d to 13d, lambs 12-ld to 164 d. * DALGETY AND CO.

Dalgety and Co. report the following range of values:—Merino from 16£d to 21id, halfbred. 14d to 19i«l, Corriedale 16d to 19d, line crossbred to 15|d, medium crossbred lid to 13|d, hoggets lid to 16d, lambs to 17id, bellies and pieces Bjd to 12|d. LEVIN AND CO. Levin and Company report as under: —Down from 17d to 19|d, Merino from 174 d to 19Ad, comeback from 18d to 19id, halfbred from 14|d to 19id, crossbred B|d to 17d, lambs 124 d to 17 >d. .