Timaru Wool Sales.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XV, Issue 230, 22 November 1912, Page 4

Timaru Wool Sales.

Tin* first wool sale of the season in Timaiai too kplaee on Wednesday. There were approximately 1500 hales of wool oll'cring, this being -similar to the number oll'ered lasi year Messrs Dalgely and Co. catalogued 500 bales, the National Mortgage and Agency Co. approximately 200, Messrs Guinness and LeCren 250, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile

’2OO, and the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-Operative Association 200. All the- classes were well represented, and t here was a good sale. All the foreign buyers were represented, and the New Zealand Woollen Mills’ bidding was also a striking feature of the sale. The sale, in short, was a very good one.

Comparing with 1011, wool is LI to ■';(! better value on account of the greater soundness, longer staple and lightness in grease The actual difference in prices works out about 2d per lb. all round in favour of this season. Medium to good merino BJd to 10;pl, super half bred 12d to 13]d, medium 10d (o 12-id, super threequartefbm) IOJd to libi, medium to good 0d ,jl° H.ltlj medium to good crossbred 9JUI to 11 yd, super crossbred lOd to" 12’d.