LONDON WOOL SALES

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28699, 24 September 1958, Page 17

LONDON WOOL SALES

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 23. The New Zealand Wool Board and the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board received cabled advice from the London agency of the New Zealand Wool Commission that at the London auction sales held from September 8 to 19 a total of 16,543 bales of slipe wool were offered. Compared with closing rates of the series of sales July 14 to 18, 1958, lambs’ slipes 56’s and finer were fully par, others 2J per cent to 5 per cent cheaper, except all seconds (sheep and lambs).Thirds (sheep and lambs) were in sellers’ favour. Sheep slipes were 5 per cent, to 7J per cent, cheaper. Halfbreds were almost unrepresented.

The New Zealand ex-store equivalent or average prices for the main types of slipe wool were Lambs’ Slipes

Good/Super Halfbred: per lb. Full wool .. • • 46 5 wool • • • • A3l 1 wool • • • • 40 Extra Fine Crossbred: Full wool . • • • 431 3 wool •• •• 40| 1 wool .. • • 375 Fine Crossbred: Full wool .. •• 411 5 wool • • • • 391 1 wool • • • • 381 Crossbred: Full wool .. • • 401 3 wool • • • • 381 Halfbred Seconds .. 31 Crossbred Seconds .. Sheep Slipes Good/Super Halfbred: 1 wool •• 37| Extra Fine Crossbred: Full wool • • • • 411 | wool • • • • 381 1 wool • • • • 36j Fine Crossbred: Full wool . • .. 41J ? wool • • • • 39 1 wool • • • • 355 Crossbred: Full wool • • • • 391 5 wool • • • • 38| 1 wool .. •• 331 Pelt • • • • 355 Crossbred Seconds ..