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New Zealand Tablet, 18 February 1915, Page 31

DUNEDIN WOOL SALE.

The third of the Dunedin series of wool sales took place in the Art Gallery Hall, Dunedin, on Tuesday, when a catalogue of 8947 bales was offered for auction. Although this was a small offering compared with the 14,015 bales of January, 1914, the total to date is well up to that of the first three sales of last season. There was a further general advance of Id to 2d per lb, some classes showing as much as 3d. The demand was principally for super halfbred and super crossbred in light condition. All pieces were in exceptionally strong demand at prices which also averaged Id to 2d above those ruling at last sale.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. report;We submitted a catalogue of 1834 bales, comprising a large proportion of clean, bright crossbred and halfbred wools, well suited to the present buyers’ requirements. Under exceptionally strong competition we cleared our entire catalogue, with the exception of one small lot of five bales, at highly satisfactory prices. We append some of the best prices realised : Crossbred Mr. Robert Smith (Hindon), 10 bales A crossbred, 14|d, 5 bales B crossbred 5 bales crossbred hogget, 14Jd ; Mr. Jno, Finch (MilburrQ, 7 bales crossbred fleece, 14jd .