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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 244, 5 March 1913, Page 4

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FINAL AVOOL SALE. GOOD PRICKS REALISED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The fourth and final wool sale of the season was held to-day. The catalogue comprised 307(1 bales, and was mostly a poor selection of logstnined and seedy lots from the hack blocks, with a few parcels of bright ficece and lambs wool. Buyers were well represented, and competition was keen, the most animated, in fact, of the series. Prices ruled on an average a halfpenny per pound higher than at the February sales, and in a few ea»es were, up as much, as threefarthings. Slightly seedy lambs were notably higher than tho last sale, while super lambs were about par. A line of half-breds bought for the. local mill, realised 12%i1. The range of other prices, compared with those realised at the February sale was as follows, the February prices being in parenthesis: Crossbred medium. lOd to lid (9 3 /jd to lid); crossbred inferior and coarse. R%d to ny,d {S%d to ny 2 d); dead wool up to (to lf!4d); pieces, Oy 2 d to 7'/od (6%d to 7%d); bellies, up to 7y>d (oy,,d to 7%d); stained pieces and locks up to 5%d (5d to 5 1 / ? d); crutehings, up to 7y,d (fi%d to 7y,d); super lambs up to I2d !liy,d to 12d): medium lambs, ](jy t d to lid (o%d to 10% d).