WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8983, 18 November 1907, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd.. report as follows on their first wool sale of the season in the Town Hall, Wellington, on Fri.lay:—The total offering from all brokers was 1,700 bales, to which we contributed 641 bales. The tocal number of bales offered would have been considerably larger but for the bad weather which has prevailed during the past few weeks. There was a representative attendance of English, foreign and local buyers. The sale was by no means an animated one, and a fair proportion of all catalogues was passed in under the hammer, owing to the difference in margin between ideas of buyers and sellers. Prices offered by buyers were on a par with the latest advices from London. Crossbred wools of all descriptions showed a decline of l£d io 2d per lb as compared with the corresponding sale of last season; half bred wcols were very much on a par with the last November rates for best quality, but inferior halfbred showed a distinct drop. We give below approximate values realised and for the sake of comparison values obtained for the corresponding sale of last year:— Super half bred, November lt'OG lid to llfd, November 1907 lid to medium halfbred, 11)06 IOJd load, 1907 10c! to 10Jd, inferior, 1906 lOd, 1907 9kl to 9|d; super crossbred, 1906 IOJd to lljd, 1907 9Ad to lOd; medium crossbred 1906, 9Jd to IOJd, 1907 B£d to 9£d; inferior crossbreds, 1906 9d to 9|d, 1907 7d to BJd; bellies and pieces, 1906 6Jd to 7|d, 1907 GdtoSJd; stained pieces and locks, 1906 4£d to €Jd, 1907 3J to 4d; dead, 1906 7}d toßid, 1907 s|d to 7£d; crutchings, 1906 4£' ito 6c 1 , 1907 4.? dto Gtl. The following are some of our principal sales:—Wrekin, halfbred, il&d; XKoatanui, 11 jd; Ngaiomii, lid; Maltese cross-Vernon, lid; JW, 10£ d; JW, first pieces, BJd; JW, crossbred, 9fd; ETover LWT. lid; JM, 93d; The Rocks, 9|d; Cairn. B:]d. We hold our next sale on Friday, December 6th, at 9 a.m.