TIMARU WOOL SALES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10059, 29 January 1909, Page 2

TIMARU WOOL SALES.

Guinness and LeCren, Ltd., report: The third wool sale of the season was held at the Theatre Royal, Timai'u, to-day, when the total offering for this sale was 6500 bales as compared with 7700 bales offered at the same sale last year. The condition of the wool generally, to consider, is not equal to the average of January sales, being ill most cases heavier in condition, and "more earthy. There was a good attendance of buyers, and competition, though somewhat irregular, was, with the exception of medium hali'breds and dirty wool, in most cases up to the level of llet .nnber rates. For medium halfbreds the limit price seemed to be from id to |d 10.-.e.r. For merinos prices were rather disappointing, due probably to the heavy condition of the wool. Pieces of all grades sold particularly well, being quite up to, if not better than, prices ruling in December. The range of prices in our catalogue was as follows :—Merinos : Super, none offering ; average, B£d to 9£d,- inferior, 6Jd to Bd. Haifbr2ds: Super, none offering; medium, to 9>[d; inferior, 6£d to Threequarterbrei: Super, up to BJid to 9£d; medium, to 8d ; inferior, 6d to 7d. Crossbreds: Super, none offering ; medium, 6|d to T^d; inferior, 6d to 6£cT; sandy and dirty, 4£d. Pieces:, Ist merino, up to B|d. HaUbred best, 7d to medium, 5d to 6^d; crossbred, 4id to 6£d. Rotable sales in our catalogue were— Brand 96, account F. H. Smith, Albury, 4 bales merino 9d; "Castlerock o.er L, J. H. Morris, 2bales halfbredi ewe, 9£d; 11 over semicircle, J. Rice, 3 bales halfbrcd ewe, 9d : A. J. -A. Judge, 5 tales halfbred ewe, 9d; Asheridge, A. Judge, 16 hales halfbred, 8-Jd ; Foxdown, John Ford, 4 bales halfbred, bales halfbred, 8/1; Sterndale, T. B. Garrick, 2 bales halfbred, B£d; RV, J. Rose, 3 bales halfbred, 83d; Viewhill,.J. C. Rolleston, 6 bales halfbred, over Kinbryan, Rankin and Moir Byers, 2 bales halfbred ewe, B£d, 2 bales half bred hogget, B^d; Mansfield, executors late J. Balfour, 4 bales halfbred ewe, B£d. 2L W. Lynn, 4 bales halfbred, Bid ; XE, G. M. Anderson, 3 bales super three-quar-terbred, 10£ d; 4 bales first three-quarter-bred, B|d; Kinnoul, R. J. M'Keown, 12 bales fine three-quarterbred ewe, 9jd, 14 bales three-quarterbred ewe, B;Jd, Wentnor, W. B. North, 3 bales three-quarterbred ewe, 8£d!; ZT over Zinbryan, Rankin and Moir Byers, 7 bales three-quarterbred-ewe Bjd, A. J. A. Judge, 3 bales -J-hred ewe By, 96, F. H. Smith, 3 bales merhio pieces Bjd, 2 bales merino bellies 7jd'; JF over Foxdown, John Ford, 3 bales halfbred pieces 7-Jd; S and T), J. Doivthwaite, 2 bales halfbred pieces 7£d, 2 bales merino pieces 7d; Kaiwarua, C. Studholme, 3 'bales. Ist halfbred, pieces 7d ; Wentnor, W. 'B. North, 2 bales th.rcequartevbi'ed necks 7d. .. Our catalogue comprised 1356 bales, of which up to the present we have sold 1200.