WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9032, 20 January 1908, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as follows:—We held our third wool sale of the season iti the concert room of the Town Hall on Friday, when we submitted a catalogue of about 3,800 bales out of a total offering of 8,000 bales. |The quality of the wool offered was not equal to that of the correpsonding sale of'last year, there being a large proportion of cotted and inferior wools. There was a large and representative attendance of English, foreign and local buyers. Competition was more animated than at any previous sale held this sensor. Prices, as compared with December sale, showed a declnie all round, best halfbreds to the extent of Id per lb; best cros3breds, £d per lb; medium crossbreds, Sd per lb; inferior crossbreds, Id to ljd. For the Tataramoa lambs wool we realised 9d per lb, which was the top price for this class of wool. The highest price bid for halfbreds was 9Jd per lb, for Strathcarron; Tataramoa hall bred was passed in at the same price. Rangawhati crossbred, realised as high as B.£d; JP | P Shropshire cross, BJd; RH | W—four bales of Romney—was passed in at Sfd. We also offered the Birch Hill clip (all Merino), which was passed in, but afterwards disposed of privately. About threefifths of our catalogue was sold under the hammer. The following gives an indication of prices realised, and, for the sake of comparison, values obtained for December sale :

The following are some of our principal sales:—Temona, half bred, 9d; Stvathcarron, half bred, 9£d; R.W.B. over Glengarnock, crossbred, 8d; H.B. The Pines, half bred, BJd; M | Rata, merino, B£d; HB | Newman, crossbred, 8d; JS, Romney, B|d; JS, merino, ' B|d; Fairfield, crossbred, 8d; R H over W, Romney, 8£ (passed); Rangawhiti, crossbred, BJd; FMP, crossbred, 8d; Patakanui, crossbred, 7£d;Komako, crossbred, Maungatau, crossbred, 7d; Birch Hill, merino, 9£d; JT E, crossbred, B:}d (passed); Tataramoa, crossbred, 83d, halfbred, 9Jd (passed); P.R. conj. Kaiuma, crossbred, 8d (passed); Tataramoa, halfbred lambs, 9d; Z | Hapua, crossbred, 8d (passed). We hold our next sale on Friday, 21st February, 1908, at 9 a.m.

Dec. 1907 Jan. 1908 Merino to 10$d 8d to 9$d Sup J-bred lOJd to lljd 8Jd to 9£d M'd'm |-bred 9£d to 9£d Sd to 8fd I'f'r £-bred 8|d to 9d 6£d to 7fd Sup x-bred 8fd to 9|d 8d to 8gd M'd'm x-bred 7 |d to 8|d 6|d to 7fd I'f'r x-bred 6d to 7£d 5d to 6 Jd B'U's and Pi'cs 5|d to 7Jd 5d to 6|d Stained locks and pieces 2Jd to 4d lfd to 3|d Dead 5$d to7£d 3d to 4d