INVERCARGILL WOOL SALE

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25739, 26 February 1949, Page 8

INVERCARGILL WOOL SALE

TOP PRICE 54|D CROSSBREDS EASIER (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Feb. 25. Although the wool was not quite up to the standard of the January sale, and prices were slightly easier, there was an attractive offering at the third wool sale of the season held in the Cjvic Theatre. Invercargill, to-day, before a full bench of buyers. Thirty-thousand bales of the new season's greasy wool and a few lines of slipes were offered, the top price of the day being 54Jd a pound, paid for a bin lot of an extra-super line of Southdown offered by the Southland Farmers’ Coop. It was an outstanding line of Southdown which is in keen demand for Italian orders for the hosiery trade. Early in the sale 52 (fed was paid for a lot offered by the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd. Fine and medium crossbreds showed considerable easing, but coarse crossbreds sold well considering the decrease in price. Hogget wools were not as attractive as the January offering. They were inclined to be dusty, showed a fair proportion of tenderness, and were well back on the January sale. All oddments sold particularly well, in some cases only a penny or two below

the fleece wool prices. The official range of prices Southdown, 58/60— d aC ’ d. Good to super 50 to 522 Average 36 to 40 Down Cross, 50/56 — Good to super 42 to 46 Average 36 to 40 Strong Crossbred or Fine Three-quarterbred, 52— Good to super 40 to Average 36 to 39 Fine Crossbred, 50— Good to super 29 to 314 Average .. 25J to 274 Medium Crossbred, 46/50—Good to super 24 to 26 Average 212 to 232 Strong Crossbred, 40/46 — Good to super 22 to 234 Average 20 to 22 Soft cots 20 J to 23 Cots .. 19 to 21 Fine Halfbred Hogget, 56/58— Good to super 38 to 40 Average 3b to 37 Medium Halfbred Hogget, 56’s— Good .. . • .. 3® to Fine Cross Hogget, 50/54 — Good to super 29 to 324 Good 28 to 29 Average 26 to 274 Medium Cross Hogget, ’ 46/50— Good to super 252 to 274 Average 224 to 2b4 Strong Cross Hogget, 44/46 — Good to super 25 to 28 Average 22 to 25 Medium Crossbred, 48/50— Good to super —— to 284 Halfbred— Average 18 to 22 Crossbred— Good to super 19 to 214 Average 174 to 184 Three-quarterbred or Fine Crossbred— Good to super 21 to 22 Average 17 to 19 Inferior and seedy .. — to 14 Crossbred— Good to super .. 20 to 224 Average 18 to 24 Inferior and seedy 14 to 17 Locks— Crossbred 13 to 15A Halfbred, good to super .. 3b to 362 Average 27 to 32 Crossbred, good to super .. 26 to 29 Average 23 to 2b Inferior and seedy 20 to 22