WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 903, 24 February 1908, Page 7

WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

liessrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report on their fourth sale of the season, held on Friday, as follows:—A total catalogue of 2,286 bales weie N offered from all brokers, our contribution to which was 1,149 bales, out of which we sold 782 bales. Buyers were present in good numbers, and competition was animated throughout the sale. The quality of the wool offered, as is usual at this time of the year, was of inferior •quality, there being a fair proportion of seedy, dingy, and log-stained lots. As compared with our January sale, sprices showed a decline of up to Id per lb for medium crossbred; coarse and inferior crosshred, ljd. Best lambs sold from at par to, I d below .Jitjmary rates, and inferior lambs a drop of fully Id per lb. Our Jhighes*; price for lambs wool was 7|d. BIRCH HILL scoured locks we sold :at Is 2d, and scoured combings at Is, while several lots of crossbred wool realised 7d. Tbe following gives an indication of prices realised, and for *=*tbe sake of comparison, values obtained at January Sale :

Jan. 1908. Feb. 1908. Merino 8d to 9|d 7gd to BJd Super halfbred Bfd to 9Jd Medium halfbred 8d to BSd 7£d to BJd Inferior halfbred 6Jd to 7gd Gd to 7d Super crossbred 8d to B|d Medium crossbred 6|d to 7.? d 6Jd to 7d Inferior crossbred 5d to 6Jd 4d to 5d LarAbs, best ■£quality ' 6Ed to 7fd Lambs, medium quality 5d to 6d Lambs, inferior 2Jd to 4£d Bellies and piece's 5d to 6|d 3d to 5d Stained locks and pieces lfd to 3|d lid to 2Jd Dead " 3d to 4d 33d to 4Jd Crutchings 2£d to 3Jd The following .are a number of our principal sales:--LEATHAM, lambs, 7d, B in circle, crossbred, 6|d;EMP lambs 71d; JM conioined* crossbred, 6Jd to 7d; 3A over BELLEVIEW, lamhs, 7d; TFE, lambs, 7d; XRL, lambs, 7d; LEATHAM, halfbred, passed at 8d; BIRCH HILL, scoured locks, Is 2d; scoured combings. Is; greasy merino combings, B£d; STOCKMNS, crossbred, 7d; PANGO, iferino, 7|d; HGM, lambs, 7£d; PKS, merino, 7|d; P and S, halfbred, 7fd; FI, lambs, 7Jd.