WOOL AT HOME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1938, Page 8

WOOL AT HOME

QUIET BUT FIRM MARKET. (Recd This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. The Bradford market is quiet but firm. At the wool sales, 5,137 bales were offered, including 3,128 from New Zealand and 4,574 sold. There was a moderate selection and a keen and general demand at full rates. New Zealand greasy crossbred, Mount Fortune, brought IOJd.

Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London agents, dated May 16: —“The auctions continue fairly animated. There is a hardening tendency in the market for merino and greasy xbreds and sliped wools generally are par to 5 per cent lower. The following prices are current: —Merino, super, 14d to 15d; average, 12|d to 13|d; fine halfbred, super 56/58’s, 12d to 13d; average 12d to 121 d; medium halfbred, super 50/56’s, lid to llid; average, lOjd to lid; extra fme xbred, super 48/50’s, 10.1 d to 103 d; average, lOd to lOJd; fine crossbred, super 46/48’s, lOd to 10|d; average, 92d to 10.',d; medium crossbred, super 44/46's, lOd to lOJd; average to IO.Jd; coarse crossbred., super 40/44’s, lOd to lOJd; average, 9,3 d to lOJd; low crossbred, super 36/40’s lOd to lOJd; average, 9.3 d to lOJd; pieces, 7Jd to 8d; bellies, 7d to 7£d; locks, 4d to 6d.”