WOOL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6, 8 February 1906, Page 13

WOOL.

DUNEDIN WOOL SALES. Messrs Donald Reid and Co., report as follows :— The third wool sale of the season's series was held in the Victorial Hall, Agricultural Buildings, on Tuesday. The number of bales catalogued for the >sale made 8534, being 2093 bales in excess of the number offered at the corresponding sale last season. There was again a very full attendance of buyers, who bid with commendable spirit throughout the sales. Our catalogue, which comprised 1567 bales, was made up of crossbred, halfbred and merino wools, and contained some very choice lots, notably the clips from Messrs. R. Smith (Berwick), Thomas T. Bagrie (Waipahi), James Prentice (Berwick), W. Littlejohn (Waiwera), James Irvine (Clinton), Robert Cowie (Wetherstones), and George Clark (Moonlight), which were all of really nice quality, clean, light, free from all deleterious matter, and well and carefully put on the market. They were much admired, and made record prices. The above lots deserve special mention, but, taking the catalogue as a whole, the display was a very satisfactory one. Competition throughout our sale, although somewhat irregular, was, on the whole, very brisk for all classes of fleece wools, and prices realised were the highest of the season, and may be quoted at from par to £d per ft advance. Priee\ however, showed no material alteration, and in several cases were barely equal to values ruling at our previous sale, but altogether the sale must be considered entirely satisfactory from a grower's point of view. Of the 1567 bales catalogued by us, 1503 bales were sold at auction, and 64 were passed in, bidding not being quite up to valuations.