WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9648, 13 November 1909, Page 5

WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

BEST SALE EVER HELD IN WELLINGTON.

A SPLENDID RANGE OF

VALUES.

By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 12.

The best sale ever held in Wellington sums up accurately to day's wool sale, the first of the Wellington series for 1909-10 season. The splendid range of values set out at Napier was fully maintained. Taking quality for quality pieces may have been. cheaper, but fleece

wools suitable for America, having

the necessary lightness in condition realised fully up to good Hawke's Bay values—in fact some buyers

maintained that they'had to pny more for them. There were many lines quite-equal to the best Hawke's Bay wools in characters essential lor the American trade, but being unskirted realised from Id to l|d less than they would have done had they been marketed properly. One line sold at 12Jd would have realised, the buyer declared, fully lid had bellies not been left in. Thb was purchased for America, but it will have to be skirted and rebaled befDre being shipped. Two thousand eight hundred bales were offered, and prices on the whole were £d to Id better than they were at the opening sale of last season. The extreme prices up to 13id were for very light conditioned halfbreds. Good bright crossbreds went from IOJd to Is according to condition, ordinary to medium from BJd to 9Jd, and coarse crossbreds 7§d to B£d. The sale was remarkable for the very few lots passed in. Buyers were present in stronger force than ever before, when prices soared above Bradford limits, and came within the American range. The bidding was left to the several operators for American houses, and if wool possessed th 9 desired lightness in condition the limit price was given. The heavier conditioned and light conditioned, but not skirted, parcels were left to th* Bradford and local buyers, and here the competition was strong enough to secure prices on a full parity with London values. Prices averaged as under:— November, 1908. Today. Merinos

Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd.. report as follows:—The first sale of the season was held yesterday at the Town Hall, when between 2,500 and 3,000 bales were offered by the Associated Brokers. There was a large attendance ot buyers, including representatives from England, the Continent, America and New land. The wool offered showed an increase of 1,600 bales on the first sale of last year. We presented a catalogue of 680 bales, and the whole catalogue was a creditable representation of the new season's clip, The wool on the w'jole was bright well grown, light in condition and well got up, showing that some growers are taking more care to market their clips in an attractive condition, Bat on the other hand we regret to notice several poorly classed, and unskirted, with bellies remaining, which lost the American dam n\ and suffered severely in consequence. Bidding was extremely animated, and prices throughout were on a ve r y high scale. We cleared nearly every line in our catalogue at figures which must please vendors. We topped the market with two lines of halfbred at 13J pance, and sold many parcels at from 11 to 13 pence. As compared with November last there was a marked advance all round, reaching as much as 4 pence to 5 pence on the best lots suitable for America. The December sale, however, last year, was the one which showed the first imrovement, and set the standard for the season frices to day were 1\ pence better for superior crossbred, and \\ to 2 p3nce better for medium and coarse crossbred as compared with December sale of last year. The following is the range of prices:— Nov amber, 1908. To-day.

(1) Merinos None offering 9Jd to lOd (2) Halfbreds 7d to 8d 9£d to 13* d (3) Sup. fine • xbreds 7Jd to 8d lOd to 13d (4) Medium xbreds 6£d to 7|d 8d to lOd (5) Coarse ! xbreds 6d to 6|j 7a to 9|d (6) Inferior xbreds 4£d to 6d 7d to 8d (7) Pieces and bellies 2d to 3gd 4d to 6Jd (8) Locks Id to 2£d Id to 4|d The following are some of the prices realised. Where the clip was sold last year the price then obtained is stated in brackets:-'!' W S (6i>d), lOcl; FIVE 9Jd; HHB (6|d), 11£ d; W S D (61d), Hid; SB over P (6fd), lid; TEKAMRU crossbred, 9Jd, 9 id, 9itf, half bred .Hid, Hid, Merino lOd; BRK,

lOJd; THE CLIFFS, hallbred, I3£d; PARAHA, 12d; BRIGHTWATER. halfbred, I3£d; CLUB, fine, (101 d), 13d, coarse (76), Bgd, * crossbred (10& d), llgd; RIVERSIDE, Southdown, Hid; JU over TAKARAU, lOJd; STAR over NEW ZEALAND, 12d; T W over KORORI, lljd; WH 9Jd, 8d; C in IRIANGLE, 9|d; N over M B, lljd; A and G, Merino, HILLENn, Is; PAHFLAT, I2|d; MAHAKI, 12d, 12:16; SB overß, 12d; TUI, 10d; OPAKETE lid, 1(M; N B S (7d), B£d; PAW over TEWHARAU (7d), 9|d.

Unrepresented 9£d to lOd Halfbredj 7d to 8d 9fd to 13Jd Superfine xbreds 7id to 8d lOd to 13d Medium **i;t4** xbreds6£d to 7£d 8d to lOd Coarse xbreds 6d to 6£d 7d to Did Inferior xbreds 4*d to 6d 7d to 8d Pieces and bellies 2d to 3£d 4d to 61d Locks - Id to 2£d Id to 4{d decided increase in prices ALL ROUND #