INVERCARGILL WOOL SALE

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28766, 11 December 1958, Page 18

INVERCARGILL WOOL SALE

Slight Easing In Prices (New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Dec. 10. All classes of fleece wools offered at the Invercargill wool sale today showed a slight easing on the prices ruling at the last crossbred sale in Wellington, says the official report of the sale, and woolly hogget prices were also lower than those realised at the last Christchurch sale. Oddments are quoted as firm, and the few lots of lambs’ wool and scoured types sold well. The report says that the sale opened before a fully representative bench of buyers. The offering of fleece wool was predominantly woolly hoggets, and these, although attractive in the main, did not open up as nicely as in some other seasons, a fair proportion being dusty and tender. Other fleece wools also showed the effects of the season, and some shortness of staple oddments carried traces of-mud. The buying was well spread, with Bradford taking the woolly hoggets and top-making wools and Continental buyers their share of these types and most of the oddments.. American interests were operating oh the coarse crossbred wools. ' pie New Zealand Wool Commission, although called on regularly throughout the day to make bids, did not buy any quantity and those lots which it did purchase were mainly the shabbier wools.

Widespread Snow In Britain (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 9. The first widespread snow and ice of the winter came to northern England and most of Scotland tor day. An Automobile Association spokesman said that roads in several areas were completely icebound. Snow was falling on the borders of England and Scotland and in various parts of northern Scotland. Ice stretched as far south as the Midlands earlier today.

_ _ Rln «' °t Prices The official range of prices is:— Southdown, 58/80’s— d. Super to 58 Good to super .. 46 to 50 Good . .. ..3® Extra Fine Crossbred, to 40 52’8, 50/58's— Good to super .. 40 Good .. ..39 to to u Average to good .. 3® Fine Crossbred, 50’s— to sa Good to super .. 39 to 41 Good .. .. 371 Average to good 34 to to 36 Medium Crossbred. 48/ 50’8— Good to super .. 39 to 40 Good .. 37 to38 Average to good .. 34 J Crossbred, 48/50'8— to 38 . Good to super .. 38 to 39 Good ..38 to 37 Average to good .. 34 to 35} Strong Crossbred, 4®/ Good to super .. 38 to 39 Good .. MX to 37 Average to good .. 34 Extra Fine Crossbred to 351 Hogget, 52’s (wooly)— Good to super .. 39 to 43 Good ..37 to 39 Average to good .. 34 Fine Crossbred Hogget, to 38 50’s (woolly)— Good to super 39 to 42 Good ..381 Average to good .. 35 to to 38 38 Medium 'Crossbred Hogget, 48/50’s (woolly)— Good to super 38 to 40 Good ..38 to 38 Average to good .. 34 Extra Fine Crossbred to 351 Hogget (shorn), 52’s— Good to super .. 38 to 39 Good .. 34 Fine Crossbred Hogget to 36 (shorn), 50’s— Good to super ... 38 to 39 Good .. ..35 to 38 Average to good .. 32 to 34 Fleece, Good .. ..38 to 39 Average .. .. 34 to 48 Necks Fine Crossbred,, 50/56’s— Good to super .. 35 to 37 Average .. 33 Crossbred. 50’s and to 35 48/50’s— Good to super .. 35 to 38 Average .. 32 Pieces Fine Crossbred, 50’s and to 35 50/58’s— Good .. ..30 to 311 Average .. ..27 Crossbred. 48/50’s— to 29 Good .. .. 30 to 32 Average .. 264 to 28 Bellies Fine Crossbred. 50's— Good, .. .. 27 to 28 Average .. 24 Crossbred. 46/50’s— to 26 Good .. .. 28 to 28 Average .. 23 to 25 Inferior .. .. 18 to 22 Crutchings Crossbred. 44/48’s— Good ... .. 33 to 35 Average ■ .. 28 to 29 Inferior* and seedy .. 18 to 23 Locks Crossbred, 46/50’s— Good .. ..15 to 17 Average ., ..12 to 14