503c paid for top-grade Merino offering

Press, 4 March 1982, Page 22

503c paid for top-grade Merino offering

The top price was 503 c for a star lot of two bales of Merino wool sold by J.H.C. Morris (Methven) at the Christchurch wool sale yesterday. The same vendor sold" eight bales of Merino two-tooth wool for 490 c and five bales of Merino wool for 456 c. Four bales of super fine Merino wool from the bins of New Zealand Farmers Co-Operative Association sold for 500 c. . The Estate of G. C. Urquhart (Cass) had a successful day. This vendor's sales included four bales of fine woolly Merino hogget wool for 500 c, five bales of medium two-tooth wool for 498 c, seven bales of fine two-tooth wool for 488 c, four bales of medium wood for 483 c, and nine bales of medium wool for 477 c. K. D. Stevenson (Flaxmere) sold six. bales of fine Merino wool for 488 c and eight bales of medium Merino wool for 482 c. Tyntesfield Station (Blenheim) received 480 c for a star lot of three bales of fine Merino wool and a bin lot of one bale of super woolly hogget wool from New Zealand Farmers sold for 481 c. Prices for Halfbred wool reached 437 c for six bales of shorn hogget wool from P. J. Taylor (Blenheim). A bin lot of six’ bales of extra-fine woolly hogget wool from Dalgety sold for 414 c. J. S. Rutherford (Culverden) sold 14 bales of fine Halfbred wool for 389 c and O> J. Osborne (Leeston) sold eight bales of' fine Halfbred wool for 381 c. 12 bales of Halfbred lambs’ wool for 302 c and seven bales of lambs' wool for 294 c. For six bales of shorn Corriedale hogget wool, D. A. Reese (Hawarden) received 426 c, and A. S. Bell (Aylesbury) sold seven bales of medium shorn hogget wool for 417 c.

M. J. Ensor (Rangiora). received 401 c for five bales of fine Corriedale woollv hogget wool and Tyntesfield Station (Blenheim) sold 10 bales of fine Corriedale wool for 394 c and eight bales of fine shorn hogget wool for 385 c. R. J. Bell (Sandy Knolls) sold five bales of fine Corriedale . shorn hogget wool for 391 c and six bales of medium shorn hogget wool for 385 c. Jason Richards (Mayfield) received 315 c for six bales of Corriedale lambs wool. Fine crossbred shorn hogget wool sold to 340 c for four bales sold by the Freeth Estate (Blenheim).’!. C. Bruce (Darfield) sold 10 bales of crossbred wool for 323 c and H. N. Gilbert (Hawarden) received 321 c for four bales of shorn Romney hogget wool. A. J. Hurst (Rakaia) sold four bales of fine shorn crossbred hogget wool for 321 c. Perendale wool sold to 336 c for 12 bales of lambs' wool from the Lands and Survey Department (Hokitika). Roylan Farms, Ltd (Oxford) sold seven bales of fine Perendale wool for 332 c and eight bales of lambs' wool for 311 c. Gibralter Farm (Christchurch) received 317 c for four bales of ,Perendale lambs' wool and the Lands and Survey Department (Ikamatua) sold eight bales of lambs' wool for 295 c.

For six bales of shorn Coopworth hogget wool, Bede L. Taylor (Oxford) received 314 c and an undisclosed vendor sold 14 bales of shorn Coopworth hogget wool for 367 c.

D. J. Mirfin (Takamatua) sold 11 bales of Coopworth lambs’ wool for 297 c and R. M. Ensor (Hanmer Springs) received 293 c for six bales of Coopworth lambs' wool and 290 c for seven

bales and 289 c for five bales of Coojpworth wool. Nine bales of shorn Borderdale hogget wool from P. G. Beer (Oxford) sold for 335 c and N. D. Thompson (Oxford) received 330 c for four bales. T. C. and H. M. Taege (Springfield) sold six bales of shorn Borderdale hogget wool for 318 c and W. D. Graydon (Oxford) sold four bales for 310 c. Nine bales of Quarterbred wool from the bins of Dalgety sold for 405 c. Newton Brothers (Little River) sold seven bales of Poll Dorset wool for 370 c and two lots of Down-cross wool from the bins of New Zealand Farmers sold for 366 c and 363 c. W. H. Foster (Omihi) sold six bales of Threequarterbred for 322 c. P. R. and S. L. Harris (Waiau) sold four bales at 316 c and W. R. Dixon (Waiau) sold five bales at 310 c. For five bales of Polwarth lambs' wool. L. A. Moore (Blenheim) received 313 c and Campbell and Hart (Rakaia) sold 14 bales of Suffolk wool for 330 c. An undisclosed vendor sold six bales of Drysdale lambs’ wool for 286 c. A various lot of 10 bales of extra fine crossbred lambs' wool from the catalogue of Dalgety sold for 329 c. Eleven bales o'f crossbred lambs’ wool from G. T. Deans (Darfield) sold for 308 c and 11 bales of fine Romney iambs' wool from W. R. Deans and Son (Darfield) sold for 307 c. A bin lot of 28 bales of Downcross lambs’ W’ool from New Zealand Farmers sold for 301 c and five bales of crossbred lambs’ wool from Hurley Brothers (Rangiora) sold for 293 c. Four bales of Halfbred second shear wool sold by J. R. Russell (Oxford) made 299 c and D. C. G. Gee (Blenheim) soid 11 bales of Coopworth second shear wool for 295 c. Eighteen bales of medium Halfbred.second shear wool.from the bins of Dalgety sold for 294 c and R. H. M. Johnston (Ashley Gorge) received 288 c for six bales of fine Halfbred second shear wool. C. M. and M. J. Jordan (Nelson) sold 16 bales of crossbred second shear for 286 c. The details of the catalogues were: The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd, 8854 bales, 776 lots; Dalgety New Zealand. Ltd, 11.004 bales, 1007 lots. Total 19,858 bales, 1783 lots.

The sale will continue tomorrow.