NAPIER WOOL SALES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 3 December 1912, Page 8

NAPIER WOOL SALES.

AN ALL-ROUND UfCOIBABE. (By Toloeraph.—ProM Association.) Hnplor, December 2. Tho Napier wool EaJos woro hold to-day, whon 13,809 bales woro offered, aa atralnirt 12,936 for tho corrosDondtiiß salo last year, 'fhoro vdb a record attenclanco of buyers from nil parts. Competition wan keen, and prnottailly all tho ollorince Bold. Prices wore ciotromcly satisfactory to growers, showing a marked increaso on last year's rales. Amorloan coniniiMtion for -the bettor clas3 stimulated the other buyers, and the naje was very strenuous. Evidence of tnie is furnished by the foot that one consignment of 143 boics fiomnrisiUK nine lots was nut through in <15scc., tho price aggregate ins £2500. The prices showed an all round increase, in-erasing lid. The highest, pneo for beat lialflircd was Wd., and.there was n, strong dejnand, for nil crosEbreils, which showed a substantial advance. Tho ran'jje of priijos was as fillowe. tho 1911 i/uotatloiw beinp: given in narcntheras:—Best lmlfbrcd, Jljd. to 14d. (IOJd. to 113 d.); medium half bred, 10! d. to 13Jd. (93d. to lOJd.l; ilm? orowbrod, 12d. to 131 d. (9}d. to. lOJd.): medium crossbred, 10d. to U3,d. (9d. to IOd.): course crossbred, 93d. to IOJd. (7?d. to 9<U: inferior crossbred. Bid. to 3d. <7d. to 73d.); pieces. 7{d. to 103 d. (6}d. to 9d.); bellies, 7d. tt> BM. (Sid. to 6M.); loclra, 53. to 6(1. (2Jd. to «d.); la.mbs. up to 10* d. (7d. to 8d.); dead, 7Jd. to 9d. (7d. to 71d.).