AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12394, 19 February 1908, Page 6

AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

{Per United tress Association).

AUCKLAND, February 18. The third wool sale of the season was held to-day. There were not many buyers present, probably owing to the present unsettled 6tate of the wool market at Home.

There were 198 bales catalogued, a 6 against 577 for the same sale last year. The market opened weak for all sorts, and the proportion sold by the different, brokers was only about one-third of the total offerings. Prices for' inferior crossbred wools dropped, as compared wiMf last year, from Id to ljd; good crossbred dropped -\d, merino wool was higher, but there was very little offering. Lambs wool about 3d to £d better. The highest price realised was 9d for fine crossbred in one ' instance, and for choice halfbred in another; last year similar wool brought ll£d. The top price for ■medium crossbred was' 7d, as compared with £KJd to 10£ d last year. Coarse crossbred sold at ssd, as compared with 9\d last year'; lambs wool at Bd, as compared withlOJd; bellies and' pieces at 3Jd, as compared with 7sd; and locks at Id to 2d, as compared with 3id"tß'43d.