Mount Cook wool shatters record

Press, 18 December 1986, Page 40

Mount Cook wool shatters record

One bale of wool from Mount Cook Station shattered the New Zealand record wool price at the Timaru and Christchurch sale yesterday when it sold for $7O a kilogram greasy.

The 17 micron superfine Merino woolly hogget, worth nearly $lOO a kilogram clean and over $BOOO for the bale, nearly doubled the previous New Zealand record of $36 greasy set at Dunedin recently.

It will be difficult for the purchaser of the Mount Cook bale to gain any promotional return from paying the record price because he reportedly sold the bale soon after to an underbidder at the auction. The underbid was $67. Mr Donald Burnett, of Mount Cook, is assured of his record return, however, at the price which was set at auction.

Mr Burnett, represented by Wrightson Dalgety Timaru, specialises in superfine Merino wools in a very high rainfall part of the high country. The record-price bale was described at very good length for 17 microns and with a very low vegetable matter content. It had a dry yield of 73.7 per cent. The sale of 5626 bales of Timaru wool and 22,729 bales of Christ-

church wool was very sound, with the market indicator falling only a few cents from the season high level of 424 c greasy set at Napier last week. Most descriptions were unchanged in price from Napier and from the last fine wool sale, at Dunedin on December 11. The market indicator finished at 421 c greasy and 566 c clean.

The highest price in the Christchurch catalogues was 1300 (71.2 dry yield) for three bales of 17.2 micron extra fine Merino woolly hogget from M. Giles, of Blenheim. Hebbard and Milne Partnership (Cass) received 1092 c (68.7) for a single bale of 17.5 micron Merino, and A. J. Brooker (Aylesbury) sold eight bales of woolly hogget at 970 c (69.9). Four bales of fine Merino woolly hogget from J. G. Norman and Sons (Cheviot) sold at 960 c (69.3) and T. A. Hart (Ashburton) received 900 c (69.3) for 12 bales of Merino.

Other leading Merino prices included 898 c (70.3) for four bales of extra fine woolly hogget from H. G. Innes (Flock Hill), 890 c (73.6) for 10 bales from Treevale Farm, Ltd (Darfield), and 865 c (69.9) for six bales of fine from J. R. To-

dhunter and Sons (Rakaia). N. E. Giles (Blenheim) sold two bales of extra fine woolly hogget for 886 c (70.4), F. and L. Westenra (Craigieburn) sold two lots of four bales of the same description for 920 c (71.1) and 900 c (71.9) and Clarence Reserve (Kaikoura) sold three bales of fine woolly hogget for 910 c (67.2). A price of 550 c (74.5) was paid for four bales of extra fine Halfbred woolly hogget from Harland Partnership (Cheviot), and 527 c (72.4) was received for 12 tiales of fine from Mt Pember Run (Oxford). Other good Halfbred prices included 526 c (79.3) for five bales of fine shorn hogget from N. A. Vowles and Son (Hanmer Springs).

Glens of Tekoa estate (Culverden) sold 18 bales of extra fine woolly hogget for 540 c (74.6), and E. A. Shand (Culverden) sold eight bales of the same description for 525 c (73.2).

A single bale of Corriedale woolly hogget from A. F. Shanks (Waihopai Valley) sold at 496 c (63.9), and nine bales of shorn hogget from D. L. and G. E. Henderson (Nelson) fetched 491 c (78.7).

Other lines of shorn hogget included six bales

from N. A. McFarlane (Rotherham) at 487 c (73), and seven bales from Clearview Farm, Ltd, (Scargill) at 474 c (76.8).

Several crossbred lines exceeded 500 c, including six bales of Romney shorn hogget from Winfields, Ltd, (Nelson) at 534 c (89.6), four bales of similar description from W. F. Gilbert (Takaka) at 515 c (85.8) and 22 bales of crossbred shorn hogget from Burnt Hili Farm, Ltd, (Oxford) at 515 c (85.9)

K. R. Gardner (Blenheim) received 511 c (86.4) for four bales of crossbred shorn hogget, P. H. and J. Jordan (Kikiwa) 500 c (85.6) for eight bales of medium, P. L. and J. S. Winter (Rangiora) 498 c (83.5) for five bales, D. C. Brown (Banks Peninsula) 497 c (82.5) for four bales, and A. A. Baker (Marlborough Sounds) received 497 c (82.1) for seven bales of Romney woolly hogget. Other good sales of crossbred shorn hogget included nine bales from the Lands and Survey Department (Butlers, Hokitika) at 496 c (84.5), four bales from P. A. Joblin (Greenpark) at 493 c (82.9), seven bales from D. O. Masefield and Son (Banks Peninsula) at 492 c (82.8), and six bales from W. B. Oxnam (Murchison) at 491 c (85).

Quail Downs (Kaikoura) sold four bales of Romney woolly hogget at 496 c (81.5), Ferniehurst Station (Parnassus) sold 15 bales of fine crossbred shorn hogget for 524 c (86.6), Rocky Peaks Parnership (Little River) sold nine bales of crossbred for 506 c (84.6) and Schroder Brothers (Kaikoura) sold four bales of shorn hogget for 501 c (84.6). Leading Coopworth shorn hogget prices included 486 c (80.7) for 11 bales from J. D. Shearer and Company (Rangiora), 474 c (81) for 11 bales from L. R. and G. L. Kingsbury (Ashburton), 474 c (79.1) for 10 bales from B. E. Wright (Hororata), and M. and M. Barker (Kaikoura) sold nine bales of shorn hogget for 510 c (85.5). Vendors to exceed 500 c for Perendale included J. R. Wilson Partnership (Hanmer Springs) with 509 c (87.6) for seven bales of shorn hogget, and D. P. Shaffrey (Greymouth) with 500 c (87.1) for five bales of shorn hogget. Harland Partnership (Cheviot) sold four bales of fine Perendale at 489 c (80.7) and the Lands and Survey Department (Grey Valley) sold five bales of shorn hogget at 486 c (82.9).

A line of six bales of Lincoln shorn hogget from W. Reveley and Son (Ashburton) made 490 c (83). At the top of the Timaru wool was 7000 c (73.7) paid for one bale of 17 micron super fine merino woolly hogget grown by D. N. C. Burnett (Mt Cook) who also sold three bales of 17 micron for 1480 c (73.9) and one bale of 17 micron for 1300 c (71.4). T. B. E. Dougdale (Wal-

mate) sold three bales of merino woolly hogget at 18.1 microns for 1000 c (68.6) while Dry Creek Station (Fairlie) sold five bales of 17.8 micron for 1020 c (70.8), two bales of 18.3 micron for 931 c and three bales of 18 micron for 878 c. W. R. Patterson (Tarras) sold six bales of 18.6 micron for 915 c (73.1), two bales of 18 micron at 864 c (69) and six bales of 19 micron at 860 c (72.4). Birchwood Run (Omarama) sold 10 bales of 18 micron Merino fleece for 907 c (72.2), J; J. and J. B. Waters (Burkes Pass) sold four bales of fine wether wool for 900 c (65.7) and J. R. Innes (Waimate) sold seven bales of 18.3 micron for 864 c (71.9). Corriedale wool reached 457 c (75.3) for 21 bales grown by E. M. and D. M. Donaldson (Ashburton), and the Coldstream Estate (Ashburton) sold two lots of strong Corriedale for 451 c. These were 10 bales (76.5) and 14 bales (75.5). At the top of the crossbred fleece wool for Timaru wools was 489 c (82.5) for seven bales of crossbred shorn hogget grown by I. C. Somerville (Fairlie), followed by 484 c (84.7) for 15 bales of Romney two-tooth second shear from P. W. Allport (Timaru). K. W. Walker (Fairlie) sold six bales of crossbred shorn hogget for 478 c (80.2). All the following descriptions are shorn hoggets unless otherwise mentioned. B. J. and C. M. Drummond (Pleasant Point) sold five bales of Romney cross for 477 c (81), and L. S. J. and M. A. Wilson (Ashburton) sold

eight bales of Border Romney cross for 477 c (82.4). Harper Partnership (Ashburton) sold nine bales of Romney for 476 c (82), and P. D. White (Timaru) sold 10 bales of crossbred second shear for 471 c (79). On 470 c were A. T. and B. F. Brown (Waimate) for four bales of crossbred (79.2), T. C. McManus (Maungati) for nine bales (79.4), and D. G. Cain (Geraldine) with 24 bales (79.8).

On 467 c were Pikes Point Farm (Waimate) with five bales of Romney (78.5), and D. G. Tait and Son (Ashburton) for eight bales (79.9), while R. and M. Hacquoil (Albury) sold eight bales of crossbred for 466 c (79.8). Coopworth wool reached 472 c (80.6) for four bales from G. C. and J. C. King (Ashburton), while R. C. Johnson (Fairlie) sold seven bales for 466 c (77.4), R. G. Metcalf (Geraldine) sold 15 bales for 465 c (80.7), Grant Brothers (Geraldine) sold four bales for 451 c (78.4) and Mackenzie Charitable Trust (Ashburton) sold 52 bales for 450 c (78). .

J. and J. Stevens (Albury) and T. G. and M. S. Sutherland (Albury) sold nine bales of Perendale cross for 479 c (81.3), and W. L. King (Cattle Valley) sold 12 bales of Perendale for 452 c (78.5).

The order of sale was Wrightson Dalgety Timaru 419 lots, 4166 bales; Pyne, Gould, Guinness 157 lots, 1460 bales; total Timaru 576 lots, 5626 bales; Wrightson Dalgety Christchurch 1227 lots, 14,860 bales; Pyne, Gould, Guinness 614 lots, 7869 bales; total Christchurch 1841 lots, 22,729 bales.