PRICES FOR SLIPE WOOLS
FIGURES FOR LAST LONDON AUCTIONS (New Zealand Press Association) n a WELLINGTON, Oct. 8. Prices for halfbred lambs’ slipes (unshorn body wool) were firm at the London wool auction sales from September 15 to 26, as compared with the closing rates of the previous London series on July 25 last. x^ A< lX ice of this h as been received by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board and the New Zealand Wool Board from the London agency of the Wool Commission. Crossbred lambs were 5 per cent, cheaper, while good sheep slipes were on a par with the July closing rates. Poor or inferior sheep slipes advanced about 5 per cent. The New Zealand ex-store equivalent of the average prices received at this series was • eS f ° r the main ty P es body wools Lambs’ Slipes r.,S’, ood to Super.—Halfbred, full wool, ssid ; three " quarter wooI « 57 2 d; half wool, Extra Fine Crossbred.—Full wool, '3sld; three-quarter wool. 52d; half wool, 481 d. Fine Crossbred.—Full wool, 551 d- threequarter wool, 52? d; half wool, 482 d. Fine Crossbred—Full wool, 5413; threequarter, 51d; half wool, Crossbred.—Full wool, 492 d; threequarter wool, 494'd; half wool, 461 d. Half bred seconds, 442 d; crossbred seconds, 402 d. Sheep Slipes r _Y’? od , to Super Halfbred.—Full wool, as|d; three-quarter wool, 531 d; half wool, 49£d. Extra Fine Crossbred.—Full wool, 541 d; pelt e ’^d rter W ° O1 ’ 433d ’ haH W ° Ol, 46id ’’ Fine Crossbred.—Full wool, 52Jd; threequarter wool, 501 d; half wool, 47Jd; pelt, Crossbred.—Full wool, 513 d; three39d rter W ° ol, 50id; half w ° o1 ’ 47 $ d ; P elt - Crossbred seconds, 39Jd. Pelts The prices quoted are f.o.b. New Zea- ° nly 3 f?W SaleS haVe been made Rates are: North Island sheep, up to o Bs x?. dozen : North Island lamb, to 675: South Island sheep, to 87s; South Island lamb, to 575.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26857, 9 October 1952, Page 13
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