WELLINGTON WOOL SALE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3120, 22 February 1909, Page 7

WELLINGTON WOOL SALE.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:— We held our fourth wool sale of the season on Friday, when we offered a catalogue of 5,851 bples (out of a total catalogue of 13,500 Jbales), as compared with 1,149 bales for the correpsonding sale of last .year. Very few good lots were ■catalogued, the bulk of the offering being dingy and logstained crossbreds. As is usual at this sale a fairly large quantity of lambs wool -was offered, and ir. this, as well as in the case of crossbrecis, there were a •considerable number of seedy parcels. There were not good lines of super •crossbreds offering at this sale. ■Buyers were present in Jarge numbers • and included representatives from all ;parts. Competition was animated throughout the sale, and prices for good classes of wool were quite on a par with January rates. Anything inferior or shabby showed a slight •decline. Of the quantity offered •(5,851 bales), 4,802 bales were sold under the hammer. Some of the prices realised by us were as folJows:—Starhill, halfbred, 8d; A in a •square over L, lambs, 9d: for Ao'honga clip, prices for crossbreds wtre irom'6£d t®7 d, and lambs up to G|d; Upton Downs, merino, 7|d to 7Ad; halfbred 9d: WNW, crossbred, 7Jd; —o—crossbred 6£d to 7gci; A in a diamond over W, crossbred, B*d; D Y Cinderhill, crossbred, SJd; Otuangiangi, crussbred, 6Jd to 6|d; Glencrieff o'ver WL conj, 7d to 7sd; L rev R conj-N, crossbred, 6|d to 7d; B in a circle over W, crossbred, 7|d; Birch Hill, merino, 8d; M T merino, 7d to B£d; Waiouru, halfbred, "d to 7£d; J WW conj, crossbred, 7£d; C L in a diamond, Tuapaka Ryeland sheep, 7|d; G RT, lambs, Bd;R A, lamb 3, BJd: Fairgrove, crossbred, 6Jd to 7|d;. Upton Fells, merino, B}d to B£d; , halfbred, B|d to 9Jd, three-quarterbred 7d to 7|d; T P L conj, Elmley, crossbred, 7£d; E H W ■over L, lambs, 7|d; Flat Point, half' ■bred and Down cross, 8d to Lincoln cross, 6|d to 7£d; Romney cross, 7£d; lambs 6fd; Woodclyffe, lambs, 7sd; Goodlands, crossbred, 7Jd; iLlsmore, lambs, 7d; Letham, halfbred, 7£d to 7fd; merino, 7d to 7|d; ohamrock, halfbred, 7|d; W H, crossbred, 7d to 7Jd; TTB, crossbred, 7Jd;TMcI, lambs, 7fd; G S over Palmgrove, .lambs, BJd; I L over P N , Romney, sfd; MH over O, crossbred, 8d; Hill, merinos, to7id; Mokoia, crossbred, 7£d; Runnymede, crossbred, 7Jd; ES !M, lambs, 8d; WK | Manakau, lambs, 9Jd; HPC, lambs, 9d; A N S in a diamond over W, lambs, B£d; TAL | P, crossbred, 6Jd, to 7£d; Glendryneoch, crossbred, 7id; Whakamoetakapu. lambs, 9Jd. The following table will give -an indication how prices compare with January sale:— Jan. 1909. Feb. 1909. Super J bred 9d to 11 Jd B£d to 9Jd Medium ~ 7£d to B£d 8d to B£d Fine xbred, B£d to 10Jd none offering Medium xbred 6Jd to 8J 6Ad to B£d Inferior xbred, 5d to 6Jd 4d to 6Jd I B'lles and pec's 4£d to 7Jd 4d to 5d s Stained pieces and locks 2Jd to 4d 2d to 3|d .Dead 5Jd to 6Jd 5d to 6£d Crutchings 2sd to 4d 2Jd to j Lambs, best, 7d to 9.1 8d to 9id , Lambs, m'd'm, 5d to 6Jd 6d to 7Jd Lambs, 3eedy and inferior to sfd