Leading prices

Press, 24 March 1988, Page 20

Leading prices

Several lines of extra-fine lambs’ wool drew strong competition from buyers at the Christchurch , wool sale yesterday. Among | leading prices were eight bales of 22.5 micron quarterbred | from Mt Virginia (station (Hawarden) which fetched 855 c (82.2 per cent yield) and Ijl bales lof 22.5 micron Halfbred from!B. O. Pascoe (Darfield) at 750 c ’ (72.6). I I [ ; j | i I. ! -| Polwarth lambs’ wool from I. R. Hamilton [(Omihi) made 620 c (71.9) I for six bales, while eight bales of Corriedale frdm Dl J. Williams (Ashburton) 1 sold at 595 c (74.9) Hi Lunn (Culverden) received 529 c (83.2) for six bales lof Halfbred, L. Ruck (Hawarden) 1520 c (75.2) for 10 bales of Halfbred, N. Manson (Little River) 502 c (80.7) for five (bales!of Corriedale, and A. W. Philips (Hororata) sold six 'bales of Halfbred at 500 c (74)3). ! | 1: ! ! Sales above 500 c for coarse lambs’! ipool [ tyere common, with eight bales ofjCoopworth from Nu> Partnership (Methven) making | 535 c, (87.6). Other sales of Coopworth included 114 bales from R. |E. and L. Gl Maxwell- JMethven) at 515 c, seven! bales; from [A. J. and RI A. Willis! [(Methven) at 514 c (85.2), [and .four bales from R.j and J. I. Mulvay Partnership (Sheffield) -at 514 c (87)2). - | I. ,| Romney lambs’ wool made 526 c (86)2) for) 13[bales from B. H. O’Hara (Methven), 515 c (86.4) for-10 bales'from DJ G. and J. M. Chambers (Methven), 513 c (78.5 j for nine bales from [ Zimmerman Brothers (Chatham Islands), and 511 c (85.8) for 18 bales from G. Pagey (Methven)'Crossbred lambs’ reached 516 c (84 7) for 11 bales from B. J. Smith, (Oxford), 510 c (88.9) for IS'balesifrom SJA. and J. M. Adams (Sheffield), and 515 c (86.2) for four bales from G. and J. McVicar I - u . r 11

■ .1 ''! 1 j i | i' L (Christchurch). Five bales of Perendale from D., P. Shaffrey I (West Coast) made [slBc (87.7) ••! - : i )i In a small offering of ‘Merino fleece, Clarence Reserve (Kaikoura): sold one bale of 19.2 micron at 1591 c (63. it and P. H. and A.; C. E, Gullidge (Seddon) received 1381 c (72.7) for two bales of 20.3 micron. I i ! ! Snowdale Farms 1 (Lees Valley) recorded some excellent prices for Halfbred, including : 680 c (68.5) [ i for four bales of woolly! hogget, 600 c (68.3) for 15 bales, and 595 c I (69) for four bales. [ .: ' I ■ Mt Virginia station sold nine bales;of Halfbred shorn hogget at 565 c (77.6) and 26 bales ! of Halfbred at 555 c (78.2); N. T. Duckworth (Lees Valley) sold five bales of Halfbred’at 541 c (72.6), C. O. Philpott (Rangiora) i sold 19 bales at 536 c (74.3),[and G. N. Dalzell: (Culverden) sold five bales I at I 531 c (72.1). Among leading Corriedale sales were) nine bales [froin Colenso Farm (Moturiau) [at 542 c (79), nine .bales of shorn hogget frorri C.;O. Philpott at 528 c (71.5), five -bales Ifrom E. H. McLaughlan (Seddon) at 527 c (74.1), and eight bales of cotts from E. G. Fitzpatrick (Cheviot) at [525c (78.9). Whiterock ; Mains (Okuku) sold'four balesiat 523 c (77.5), A. F. G. Blakely (Waikari) :23 bales at 518 c | (74.4), A. ;W. Menzies (Banks Peninsula) ' six bales at slBc (68), and;R. J. Bell (Aylesbury) eight bales at 517 c (67.3). [j Seven bales 'of Romriey wether from R. M. Butterick (Ashburton) made 519 c (85.8) followed by six bales of Romney; two-tooth from A. J. Hutchinson (Wainui) at 518 c (91). E. W. Newport (Nelson) received 508 c (89.7) for nine bales of crossbred two-tooth, R. J. Prendergast

(Westport) 510 c (90.7) for five bales of crossbred hogget! and N. G. Heffernan (Banks Peninsula) sold five balfes (84.7) and eight bales (81D) at: 505 c. Whyalla Partnership ([Ashburton) sold nine bales of crossbred shorn hogget at 501 c (77;2), and G.ID. Giles (Timaru) [sold 10 bales of crossbred two-tooth at 501 c ,(88lk |||[ | I Borderdale from | A W[. Washer 7 (Ashburton)! sdOd jat 504 k (74) for. four tales, [while eight bales ofj Be rderdale from J.[ A. S. arid M. J. Jorids (Lincoln)' sold] at 503 c (BH3). ' | I [ : j T J. and ; J., M. Macaulay (Oxford) 1 received 499 c i (80.3) fori eight bales |ofj[Peretidale, D. 11. Gray (Timaru) was paid 4921 i (86:5) for I four bales' of Coopworth two-tooth, andiiß? lIJ| iWright (Kirwee) received ,491[i (85): for nirie bales : of Coopworth two-tooth. [ [[; [ | leading secondshear sales .were six [bales ofj PoHvarth from I. R. Hamilton [(Omihi) lat 570 c (77.4), eight' bales [of; Coopworth two tooth; from (Estate D. J. Mickle I (Mrithveri)lat 517 c (9L(),I1O! bales of [crossbred fromj i.[w.l Newport (Nelson) at! sl2c[ [(B9 2), and 510 c (88.6) for six! bales of [crossbred from R.' H. Fitts (Ashburton). I G. D. [McKerchar (Timaru) sold seven bales of crossbred second-shear at 508 c (189.3) 7 Lejebrook Partnership '(wiiau)! received [so4c (88.4) 26 bales, A. TJ Smit 1 and Sori (Methven) were paid :50£c (89.2) for seven sales, ant I. i 'M. Wallace ’(Lake Haupiri) sold five, bales! at [5OHc (89.5). [ | Il [J ijli Other second-shear sales Included four bales of crossbred from W. J.; Honeywell (Rakaia) [at 504c[ (88)' five bales of Perendale from Ii! Fl anld J. A. JHodginsbn (Nelson) at 1500 c (87.6), and 12 bales of R< rnney from Lynton Gowns (Kaikoura) at 503 c (88;1)1!;;