Auckland Wool Sale.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4360, 14 January 1909, Page 2

Auckland Wool Sale.

f - Auckland, Wednesday..- v . Trte second wool sale of the seasou opened' at the Auckland Chamber • Commerce this morning. There was a n of buyers,-and . the J well tilled with growers, who ■ to witness the disposal J cl i ps. The sale opened with an ■Hce of go )d, though not ikeen comFine wool offerings mled at - the same range of prices as was. ... at the opening sale in November,.... bun.be demand for courser wools was not so good. Values were just about , the sime as those realised at the v ; ~j - _ w November s-ile, but there was not the.. • . same keenness displayed and the besj*, r " L - dfl price offered was 10 Jd for a of 30 bales, which was passed in.. Romneys sold up to 8 .Id, Shropshires to B}d, Lincoln GJd, and lambs’ wool _Bd. Bellies and pieces sold very badly owing to a fall in values. A great many lots were passed in, the prico offered fading to reach the reserve placed upon the lots catalogued. “We want good.vrool and we are willing to pay good Jffiices, but we caunot get the quality the, fleece that we requiis,” declared one /jgni the buyers wheu -interviewed by Of representative. “ Any falling off .tf, there lias been in values this morniui not because of au actual drop in j pi-ice of wool. Weareoutfor good I >! ’ HKSg and we are paying good prices when '. can get them, but the difficulty is to do ip jfl Take a walk through any of the stores and just have a look at the wool.. ■ It is got up anyhow in the majority of. cases. Unskirted, shabby fleeces aro baled iodiscriminately with the better fl samples and it is difficult to get ■ B properly classed lots.” fl