DUNEDIN WOOL SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1964, 22 January 1914, Page 8

DUNEDIN WOOL SALES.

• ADVANCE IX PBICES. / (By Telegraph.—Press .AsjoulAtion.l Duncdln, January 21. Tno second wool idle or tlw season waa' lieia Hero to-day, wnen 27,1 M buies wero ouercn, ,-i3 witn -ilfrti ot tuo January talc lost year. Tncrc was a very largo tttteuuoiica of buyers, iseverai ne* laces being octerved on Mic 'L'no attendance ot interested wool-gruwc-t's was larger than, lias ever ucen seen before at a iJunoain sale. . Competition for all descriptions of wool nao never been more' animated, and tno result was never mure satisfactory u> vcndor e . As regards taa condition of the wool offered tnis vco.ru clips is, in the buyeiii' opinion, of riigncr yield tnan has boon the case for many years. In considering prices, tnis fact eliouid not; be overlooked, for the farm wools offered in December cannot be compared with the light-conditioned wools from runs sold at this sale. Merinos were hrm at December rates. Halfbrcds of all descriptions about Jd. dearer, super cress, brods Jd. to Jd. dearer, inferior o.ud medium crossbreds par to Jd. dearer, pieces of all fleocriptions .Jd. dearer. The prices for December, 1913, and January, IVl'l, wero as under, the 1914 figures being given in parentheses:-Halfbred super, lljd. to 12jd. (12d. to'Kd.l; half bred, medium to good, lCd. to lid, UOid. to lHri.l; halfbred, inferior, Bd. to 9Jd. (9d. to 10d.)crossbred, super, 10d'. to 103 d. (IOJd. to 113 d.)fo 1 ? 5 ' modi "ni to good. B|d. to 93d K?i . K sA'' cro "°rcd, inferior. 7Jd. to 3d. m»2" * J£H : mer . mo eincr, none forward '"'•.'P."'?■»: merino, medium to good, tOtl. to Mid (lOdto lljd); merino, inferior.. J* '„'? 9 /L (M - to 9d ' ); niec «. wpor, 9id.