Wool up at Dunedin sale
PA Dunedin All wools sold well in growers’ favour at the Dunedin sale yesterday. Compared with the last stro.ig-wool sale at Invercargill on April 18, crossbred fleece was up 2.5 to 4 per cent. Crossbred skirtings were up 2.5 per cent, and poorer styles lifted as much as 7.5 per cent. Second-shear generally was up about 5 per cent, and oddments moved from par to 2.5 per cent. Crossbred lambs’ fleece improved 2.5 to 5 per cent, and second shear lambs up to 12 per cent. The official report said sales for the minimal offering of Halfbred fleece generally were erratic, quotations being steady on the fine-wool sale at Christchurch on April 13.
Main competition came from Eastern Europe, the Far East, Western Europe and New Zealand mills. The Wool Board bid on less than 1 per cent of the offering and made no purchases. The bulk of the offering was crossbred fleece and oddments, which made up 53 per cent of the catalogue, second-shear (28 per cent), Lambs’ wools (11 per cent), and Halfbred and fine-wool oddments (8 per cent). The wool showed much discolouration and was tender in staple, and included many cotts. The adjusted weighted average sale price was 299.29 c a kilogram. Based on this, a Government supplementary payment of 6.9 per ’cent will apply to all wool sold at the sale and all
wool sold privately from midnight May 2 to midnight last night. The market indicator was 299 c. Fine Crossbred, 48/ 50s, and 50s:
Good 325 to 332 Average 292 to 324 Medium Crossbred, 46/50s: Good - to 339 Average 281 to 326 Poor 265 to 278 Strong Crossbred, 44/48s: Good 327 to 345 Average 301 to 326 Poor 264 to 300 Second-shear Medium Crossbred, 46/50s: Good 320 to 343 Average 288 to 317 Strong Crossbred, 44/48s, 3in to 4in: Good to super - to 381 Good 332 to 360 Average 29? to 330
Strong Crossbred, 44/48s, 2in to 3in: Good 316 to 335 Bellies and Pieces: Average to good 236 to 279 Average 196 to 235 Lamb fleece Halfbred, 54/58s: Average to good 329 to 364 Fine Crossbred, 48/ 50s: Good to super 358 to 366 Good 341 to 355 Average 322 to 339 Medium Crossbred, 46/48s: Good 338 to 352 Average 317 to 337 Second Lambs, 46/ 50s: Average to good 237 to 265 Pieces Crossbred, 46/50s: Good 240 to 255 Average 215 to 239 Crutchings Crossbred, 46/50s: Average to good 223 to 253 Average 176 to 220
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