AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 228, 15 December 1893, Page 5

AUCKLAND WOOL SALES.

At the first wool sales of the season held in A uekland some 4,000 bales were submitted for sale. The prices realised were very satisfactory on the whole, the rates obtained being a distinct advance on last year’s, with the exception of merino, whieh was lower. Southern and other buyers were largely i-e----presented at the sales, the principal buyers being Messrs Murgatroyd, Reddihough, Ireland Bros., Sutherland. War nock Bros., C. Hesketh, Colbeck, Price, Slator and Raynor. Messrs Buckland and Son’s sale was conducted by Mr Alfred Buckland, senior. There was a large attendance of buyers, and some 1,660 bales of wool were submitted, all except about half a dozen being sold. The prices ranged as follows : —Crossbred, 6id to Sd ; long wool, 6-,-d to lb ; merino, 5Ad to 6Jd. As compared with last year’s prices, the prices realised .at this sale for longwool and crossbreds were better worth from Jd to -gd per lb, but merinos were somewhat lower. The condition of much of the wool was heavy, being damp and more eutted than usual. The sale of Messrs Hunter and Nolan was the next in order. There was a large attendance and prices ran much the same as above. The competition was keen, and with the exception of one lot everything was sold. Some 900 bales of wool ©f all grades were offered. Foreign buyers mustered in force. The prices ranged from'Jd to Id per lb higher than last season’s, for coarse descriptions of wool. Fine wool fetched no higher. The prices obtained ranged as follows :—Longwool, 6d to 7d; crossbreds, 7d to 7£d; merino, 6d to B]d. The most noticeable rise was in crossbred wools.