Hogget Wool Eases Slightly

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31195, 20 October 1966, Page 3

Hogget Wool Eases Slightly

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 19. Compared with last Friday’s Napier sale, prices at the Auckland wool sale today for ex-tra-fine shorn hogget wools were in buyers’ favour. The market for second-shear showed a hardening tendency, and was firm for all other types.

The sale was the second in Auckland of the 1966-67 season and 16,893 bales of new season’s greasy wool were offered.

Growers generally have accepted these values and passings were about 10 per cent of the catalogues. It was a typical offering for an October sale—largely hogget wool with a few lines of ewe fleece, second shear, and the usual proportion of oddments. Some very attractive, well-

prepared lines of hogget wool were on display, although some lines showed a certain amount of water stain or shed stain. Staple lengths also varied in a number of clips. All buying interests were present, and provided keen competition within defined limits. The main buyers were from the Continent. They were supported by America and Japan. The New Zealand Wool Commission bid in support of a quantity of inferior oddments and occasional lines of fleece. A small quantity was passed to it. The official range of prices is:

Southdown, 58/60’s— Good d to d 54 Good average 48 to 50 Average Medium Crossbred. 48/50’S'— 32 to y Good 42J tO 44i Good average 40 to 42 Average Crossbred, 46/50’s— 37 to 39 Good 41i to 43 Good average 39 to 41 Average Coarse Crossbred, 46/48’s— 36 to 38 Good 40 i to 42i Good average 3SJ to 40 Average Extra Fine Crossbred Hoggets shorn, 56’s— 36 to 37J Good 54 to 56 Good average 50 to 52i Average Extra Fine Crossbred Hoggets shorn, 50/56’s— 47 to 49i Good 51 to 53 Good average 47J to 50 Average Extra Fine Crossbred Hoggets Shorn, 50/52’s— 45 to 47 Good 46 to 48 Good average 43 to 45i Average Second Shear Long Jin, 4in, 56/50’s— 40 to 42i Good 41 to 43 Good average 38i to 40£ Average Second Shear Short 2in, Sin. 46/50’s — 35i to 37J Good 40 to 41 Good average 37 to 39i Average Hogget Necks, 50/ 56’s— 34 to 36 Good average Average and In45 to 48 ferior Hogget Pieces, 50/ 41 to 44 Good average Average and in32 to 34 ferior Hogget Belllies, 50/ 56’s— 24 to 30 Average 27 to 29 Inferior 22 to 25 Locks Crutchings, 46/50’s — 15 to 18 Good average 30 to 33 Average 26 to 29 ■inferior 22 to 25