THE WOOL MARKET.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1921, Page 5

THE WOOL MARKET.

BRISK SALE AT WELLTXGTOX. LITTLE CIIAXGE IX PRICES. Bjr Telegraph —Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The fourth wool of the season took place at rhe Wellington Town Hall LQ-day, being held in co-operation with the British-Australasian Wool Realisation Association, which limits the quantities offered and fixes minimum reserves. The attendance was good and bidding brisk. There was little variation in prices from those realised in May. The catalogue comprised 10.173 bale B , and it is estimated 90 per cent, of the wool offered was disposed of. America, which was Tittle interested at the last sale, jras egain, inconspicuous, the principal competitors being Bradford the Continent. The range of prices, together with a comparison with the May sale, is as

tar 26, 1921. July 4. 1921Pence. Pence. - _ 9 to 9 to 16’4 gOUltdGWn 10% to 10% to Half-bred medium 7% to 8% 7 to 8 Half-bred interior 6 to > 5% to 6% Crossbred super to 6% 5 to 6 Crossbred line .. a to 6 4% to 5% Crossbred medium 3% to 4% 3% to 4% Crossbred coarse 3 to 3% 3 to 4 X-bred in seedy 2% to 2% 2% to 3% Crossbred pieces. bellies 1 to 3% 1 to 3% Half-bred pieces, bellies 3 to 4% i to 2 1 to 1% 3 Crutehings to 2 to Lambs, best .... 7 to 7% 7 to 8 -Lambs, medium .. 5 to 5 to 6% Lambs Southdown 9 to 10%