Better Wool Firm At Invercargill

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30971, 29 January 1966, Page 18

Better Wool Firm At Invercargill

(New Zealand Press Association)

INVERCARGILL, January 28. Better style wools were generally firm, poorer style fleece and skirtings inclined in buyers’ favour, while lambs wool was slightly dearer at the Invercargill wool sale today.

Continental buyers provided the main competition with limited support from other sections.

There was an offering of 29,000 bales, according to the official report. It was mainly ewe fleece and the usual oddments together with a small proportion of woolly and shorn hogget wools and a few lots of early shorn lambs wool.

Although generally of good colour, the offering was seriously affected by the adverse winter.

The bulk of the fleece wool offered showed tenderness to a marked degree and carrying a higher proportion of short stapled wools than in previous seasons.

In many cases oddments showed water stain and carried condition. The lambs wool offered was not particularly attractive. It was short in staple and carried light dust. Prompt date for the sale is February 15. Price Range The range of prices was: d. d.

Southdown. 58/ 60 ’S— Super . .1 to 58 Good 48 to 514 Average .. 38 to 46 Inferior .. 30 to 37 Extra Fine Crossbred, 52’s, 50/ 56’s— Good to super .. 52 to 54 Good 49 to 51 Average to good 46* to 484 Average .. 44 to 46 Fine Crossbred, 50’s— Good to super 491 to 52 Good 48 to 49 Average to good 45 to 474 Average .. 42 to 444 Medium Crossbred, 48/50’s— Good to super .. 474 to 484 Good 45 to 47 Average to good Averaep Crossbred, 46/50’s — 42J to 444 42 Good 431 to 454 Average to good 414 to 43 Average . 37 to 41 Strong Crossbred, 46/48’S— Good to super .. 45 to 47 Good 421 to 44 Average .. 374 to 40 Extra Fine Crossbred Hogget, 52’s (woolly)— Super 484 50 Good to super .. to 49J Good 464 to 48 Average to good 45 to 46 Average .. 42 to 444 Fine Crossbred Hogget, 50’s (woolly)— , Super 504

Good to super .. 47 to 481 Good 451 to 461 Average to good 44 to 45 Average Medium Crossbred 41 to 43} Hogget, 48/50’s (woolly)— Super to 47} Good to super .. 451 to 46} Good 431 to 45 Average to good 421 to 43 Average .. Extra Fine Cross3»i to 42 bred Hogget, 52's (shorn) — Good 49 to 51 Average to good 461 to 48} Average Crossbred Hogget 44 to 46 50’s (shorn) — Good 48 to 49 Average to good 441 to 47 Average .. 41 to 44 Lambs Fine Crossbred, SC’s— Good 43} to 45 Average to good 40 to 42} Poor to average Medium Crossbred, 38 to 39} 48/56’s— Good 42 to 43 Average to good 39 to 411 Poor to average 37 to 38} Necks Fine Crossbred, 50/56's— Good to super .. 50 to 51 Average .. Crossbred 50's and 46 to 49 48/50’s— Good to super .. 43 to 44 Average .. 40 to 42} Inferior ,. 33} to 391 Meets Fine Crossbred, 50’s and 50/56’s— Good 37 to 38} Average .. 34} to 36} Inferior and seedy Crossbred, 46/50's— 311 to 331 Good 30 to 37} Average .. 33} to 35} Inferior and seedy 30} to 321 Bellies Fine Crossbred, 50’s— Good 34} to 36 Average .. 31 to 34 Inferior .. Crossbred, 46/50's— 26 to 30 Good 34 to 35} Average .. 30} to 33} Inferior .. 251 to 29} Locks Crossbred, 46/50's— Good 20 to 21} Average to good 18 to 19 Inferior .. 16 to 17