34½p.c. Goes To Commission

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31276, 24 January 1967, Page 3

34½p.c. Goes To Commission

(N.Z. Press Association) NAPIER, Jan: 23. Compared with the rates at the Auckland sale in January the market at today’s Napier wool sale was firm. If anything prices for second shear were inclined in sellers’ favour and lamb prices tended to be against the seller, says the report of the Hawke’s Bay Woolbrokers’ Association. Competition was from the Continent, Japan, and America, local mills operating on their own particular types. The Wool Commission bought fairly freely on all crossbred description. Total passings were approximately

-38 per cent of which 34 per cent was passed to the commission. The offering numbered 20,401 bales of greasy wool from Taupo, Taihape and all i Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay districts, consisted I mainly of ewe fleece and 'early shorn, with the usual quantity of oddments and a proportion of lambs’ wool. These wools, with the exception of the lambs, were not up to last January’s sales offering, showing considerable water discolouration and cotted fleece caused by adverse weather before shearing. These wools were also showing more tenderness of staple than last season, especially clips from the Taupo and Taihape districts. The following is the official range of prices issued by the Hawke’s Bay Woolbrokers’ Association in conjunction with the New Zealand Woolbuyers’ Association and the

New Zealand Wool Commission:— Southdown, 58/60's—

d. d. Gopd 48 to 52 Average to good 44 to 47 Average .. 36 to 43 Extra Fine Crossbred, 50/56’s— Good ..46 to 481 Good average .. 411 to 45 Average .. 381 to 41 Fine Crossbred, 50/ 52’s— Good ..'43 to 45 Good average .. 40 to 42 Average .. 37 to 391 Medium Crossbred, 48/50’s— Good .. 40 to 42 Good average .. 371 to 391 Average .. 351 to 37 Crossbred, 46/50’s— Good .. 39 to 41 Good average .. 361 to 381 Average .. 34 to 36 Coarse Crossbred, 46/58’s— Good ..381 to 41 Good average .. 361 to 38 Average .. 33 to 351 Extra Coarse Crossbred, 44/46’s— Good .. 38 to 40 Good average .. 36 to 37 Early Shorn, 46/50’s, 3-5ins—

Good 364 to 384 Good average 34| to 36 Average 30 to 334 Second Shear, 56/ 60’s, 2-4ins— Good 334 to 35 Good average 31 to 33 Average, inferior 264 to 304 Lambs* Fine Crossbred, 50’s and 48/50’S— Good 38 to 404 Good average 35 to 374 Average, inferior 32 to 344 Lambs’ 2nd — Good 30 to 32 Good average 274 to 29 Average 23 to 264 Necks, Crossbred 50 and 48/50’s — Good 37 to 38 Good average 34 to 36 Average, inferior 31 to 33 Pieces, Crossbred, 46/50’s— Good to average 30 to 324 Average 26 to 29 Inferior 22 to 25 Bellies, Crossbred, 46/50’s— Good to average 26 to 29 Average 23 to 25 Inferior 20 to 22 Locks, Crossbred— Good to average 14 to 174 Average 12 to 134 Inferior ■ .. 9 to 11