COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2425, 13 February 1909, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

DUNEDIN WOOL SALES

(Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Eeh. 12

The third w!oel sale of the season was held here to-day, when a catalogue of 7249 hales was submitted. The number of bales offered was about 700 short of the total at the corresponding sale in February of 1908, but the sale was characterised by keener competition and higher prices generally. Buyers were well represented from British, Continental, American, and New Zealand firms,Valid bidding -was spirited throughout. The prices realised for good wools were more in favor of buyers than sellers, but mediums were £d to id in favor of sellers as compared with last January sales, [faulty, wasty, and heavy conditioned lots wero fully a penny better than at the last sale. pieces and hollies free from seed . were keenly competed for by Continental buyers,. and realised prices, fully up to the January rates. Merino wool a. s not keenly bid tor, and many lots of these wore Jull.yA* boloAV the January rates. Ijs tact was attributed to the local nulls hawing previously bought sufficient Jo their requirements for he current year. Prices ruled as follows:—Merino “super; 9d to 9Jd; medium o good, 8d to 83-d; inferior, 6Jd to /■M ; half-bred super, 10Jd to 12jd; medium to good, 9d to lOd; inferior, 6RI to 7|dr crossbred super, 9-Jd to llid; good, 7:Jd to inferior, 4Jd to 6cl.