Seasonal Effects In Wool Clip

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29744, 10 February 1962, Page 6

Seasonal Effects In Wool Clip

\\7OOLS entered for the ’ ’ fourth Christchurch wool sale of the 1961-62 season which will be held at the Repertory Theatre next Wednesday and Friday, are showing the effects of seasonal conditions—a wet winter followed - by a cold spring and then a drought. Wools are described as being mainly average with few super lots but there are some attractive halfbred and Corriedale wools from MidCanterbury. North Canterbury and Blenheim and also well grown two-tooth Border Leicester Corriedales and Romney Corriedales. Clips are, however, generally slightly heavier in condition and a fairly widespread fault is dust. According to the spokesman for one firm of brokers this seems to be associated with wheatgrowing areas where most cultivation is carried out. In the worst cases he said it could mean a discount of up to 8 per cent, in price. The same man said that this was a reason why an increasing number of growers were now shearing ewe lambs. They feared that otherwise hogget wools would be carrying too much dust or earth content The spokesman for another firm reported that to secure the maximum return from their lambs fanners were also shearing lambs intended for slaughter. Lambs’ wool is forward in fairly large quatitiea for this sale. It is also showing the marks of season and in

particular the shortage of feed this summer so that it is generally not so well grown. In one store, however, lambs’ wool has been described as of better style than for the last two years, being quite well grown with an absence of very early shorn milk lamb wools. In some stores less Merino wool than usual is on show for this sale. Tenderness associated with the seasonal conditions is also showing in some wools and there is also slight seed and discolouration. However in one store tick stain is reported at a minimum level. Pieces and oddments are said to be better, being of good colour with less mud and earth than at earlier auctions, and also less seed than usual according to one authority. The offering is drawn from Mid and North Canterbury. Marlborough, Nelson and the West Coast. Little second shear is forward from the Coast, buf full length wools are better on account of reduced rainfall.

The entry for the sale totals 52.010 bales, compared with 53.286 bales last year. Details of catalogues in order of sale are:—*Wednesday Bales Pyne. Gould, Guinness Ltd 13,186 National Mortgage and Agency Company. Ltd. 11,583 New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. 1.601 Total 3JJ872

Friday New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd 3.554 New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association. Ltd 9,132 Dalgety and N.Z. Loan. Ltd 12,942 Total 25.838 To balance up the entries on the two days part of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency's catalogue is being sold on Wednesday and part on Friday. &