Fleece and necks firm

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32562, 23 March 1971, Page 3

Fleece and necks firm

(N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL. March 22. Prices for sound fleece of good style were firm on the first day of the fifth main Invercargill wool sale today, compared with the recent Dunedin sale. Average, and average to good style fleece, tender or cotted wool, and lambs’ wool was up to 2J per cent easier. Necks sold in sellers’ favour. Other skirtings such as bulky pieces and bellies sold in buyers’ favour, the official report said. The first day’s offering was 23,001 bales; 50 per cent was ewe and shorn hogget fleece, 30 per cent lambs’ fleece, and the balance the usual oddments. , , The ewe and second shear fleece was mainly of good length but in many of the unclassed and unskirted lines the degree of discoloured skirts was heavier than earlier this year. These lines

also showed a fair proportion of tenderness, dust, and cotted fleece. The lambs’ wool was slightly shorter and of poorer colour than usual. Good, general competition came mainly from the Continent and Eastern Europe, and some support from the United States. RANGE OF PRICES

c. c. Fine Crossbred, 50/ 52s: Good 29 to 31J Average to good 2«a to 28 Average Fine Crossbred, 48/ 24J to 26 50s: Good 28 to 295 Average to good 265 to 27J Average Medium Crossbred, 24 to 26? 46/50s: Good 27 to 28

Average to good 241 to 26 Average 22J to 24 Medium Crossbred,. 46/48s: Good 28} to 281 Average to good 24 to 251 Average 21} to 23} Strong Crossbred, 44/46s: Good 26 to 27 Average to good 24 to 25} Strong Crossbred. 40/44s: Good 26 to 27 Average to good 24 to 25} Average 22 to 23} Second Shear, 2in to 4in: Good 26 to 27 Average to good 24 to 25} LAMBS Fine Crossbred, 50s: Good 27 to 28 Average 25} to 26} Inferior 22} to 25 Medium Crossbred, 48/50s: Good 26 to 27 Average .. 24} to 25} Inferior 22 to 24 NECKS Crossbred, 50s and 48/50s: Good 24} to 25) Average 22 to 24 PIECES Crossbred, 46/50s: Good 20} to 22 Average 18} to 20 Inferior, seedy .. 14 to 17} BELLIES Crossbred, 46/50s: Good 18 to 19} Average 17 to 18 Inferior 15 to 16 Lambs’ Bellies and Pieces, 48/50s: Good 19 to 21 Average 17 to 18} LOCKS Crossbred, 46/50s: Good 11} to 14 Average 8 to 11