WOOL SALES
COMPETITION BRISK AT AUCKLAND. . (By Tetegrapli—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. Them was a very large bench of buyers at the opening wool sales today. Six thousand one hundred and twenty-eight bales were offered. The wool was sound and well-grown, bur. lighter than at the corresponding <sale last, year. Competition, was. very brisk. Values ruled lower than at the opening sales last season, but the drop was not so much as; had been anticipated, good wools soiling well at a Id to IJd lower, and other descriptions at about Id lower than last year. Prices ranged as follow :—Shropshires and Romneys, 9d to 9f d; merino crossbred, 7£d to BJd; inferior and stained 6Jdj lambs' wools, 7d. AT TIMARU. TIMARU, Last Night. At the first wool sale there was a small catalogue (1200 bales), but a re-' preventative attendance of buyers. Tho sale was brisk. Prices for the last lots of fine crossbred were 7sd to 8d; lialfbred, 9d to 9Jd; threeguarterbred, 7Jd to B*d.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10485, 23 November 1911, Page 5
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166WOOL SALES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10485, 23 November 1911, Page 5
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