Season’s Clip 508 Bales At Upcot
(N.Z. Press Association) BLENHEIM, March 16. Upcot Station in the Awatere Valley yesterday afternoon became one of the few New Zealand sheep stations which have clipped better than 500 bales in a season. When all the oddments have been collected, the station will have pressed 508 bales of Merino wool. Believed to be the first Marlborough station to have passed the 500 mark, Upcot Station (which incorporates the Middlehurst run), which consists of some 75,000 acres,
clipped the wool from 13,700 sheep. Fine combing Merino fleece wool from Upcot has often topped the market at the Christchurch wool sale, and of this season’s clip 95 per cent has been purchased at auction by overseas interests and the remainder by New Zealand mills. Not one bale has been passed to the wool commission.
Upcot is owned by the Estate of W. B. Stevenson, and is managed by Mr J. W. B. Stevenson, with his brother, Mr E. L. Stevenson, of Middlehurst. It has been in the family since 1902.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31321, 17 March 1967, Page 3
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