Crossbred up 5 p.c. in Napier sale

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32803, 31 December 1971, Page 2

Crossbred up 5 p.c. in Napier sale

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, December 30.

Medium and coarse crossbreds at the Napier wool sale today were 5 per cent dearer, and all other wools rose 2f per cent, compared with the latest Invercargill sale.

The Napier sale, which was postponed because of the uncertainty of overseas exchange transactions, was held in Wellington.

The official report said that the offering of 28,740 bales drawn from Hawke’s Bay, Poverty Bay, East Coast and Taupo districts included mostly ewe and hogget wools, some second-shear and lambs’ wool, and the usual percentage of oddments. Most of the wools were of good top-making and carpet types, with a fair proportion of short carding and odd lots of spinners and paper felts. Most of the fleece opened quite well and in the rrfain was high yielding, but some tenderness and cottiness was noted. Many lines of offsorts, because of the wet weather before shearing, were heavy in condition and showed discoloration or mud. The small offering of new season’s early-shorn lambs’ wool was short in staple.

Competition was animated and widespread, East and West Europe being the principal buyers. Strong competition came from New Zealand mills, and moderate buying from Japan.

RANGE OF PRICES c c Extra Fine Crossbred, 52s, 54/56s: Good to super to 74 Good 69 to 71 Good to average 65 to 68 Fine Crossbred, 50s: Good to super to 73 Good 68 to 70 Good average 65 to 67 Average 60 to 64 Fine Crossbred, 48750s: Good to super to 72 Good 67 to 70 Good average 64 to 66J Average 59 to 63 Medium Crossbred, 46/50s: Good to super to 71 Good 67 to 69 Good average 64 to 66 Average 59 to 63 Coarse Crossbred, 44746s, 46748s:

Good to super to 71 Good CT to 69 Good average 84 to 66 Average Strong Crossbred, 59 to 63 40/46s: Good average 64 to 66 HOGGET Extra Fine Crossbred (shorn), 52s, 54/56s: Good to super to 76 Good 69 to 72 Good average Fine Crossbred 66 to 68 (shorn), 50s 50/ 52s: Good to super to 75 Good 68 to 71 Good average Fine Crossbred 66 to 671 (shorn), 48/50s: Good to super to 73 Good 68 to 71 Good average 6b to 67 Average Second-shear (good 6U to 64 length), 46/5'0s: Good 63 to 66 Good average 60 to 624 Average 57 to 5» LAMBS Fine Crossbred (short firsts), 50s: Good 65 to 67 Average Second Crossbred 62 to 64 (very short): Average 48 to 54 NECKS Extra Fine Crossbred, 50/56s:

Good to super 64 to 66 Average 59 to 63 Fine Crossbred, 48/50s, 50s: Good to super .. 61 to 64 Average 58 to 60

PIECES Fine Crossbred Hogget: Good 51 to 55 Average 46 to 50 Crossbred: Good 50 to 54

BELLIES Crossbred, 46/50s: Average 43 to 46 Inferior and seedy Locks: 37 to 42 Crossbred .. 28 to 35