Leading prices

Press, 15 April 1988, Page 5

Leading prices

[Among leading sales of crossbred lamb's wool at yesterday’s Tirnaru sale were seven bales from J. A. Marsden (Tirnaru) at 557 c (85.6 per cent yield) followed by 550 c received by two vendors —[ J. J. and R. M. Lake' (Mayfield) for six bales (85.3) and R. J. Love (Arundel) for seven bales (86.4)

[Twelve bales of crossbred lamb’s in a group lot from P.G.G. made 563 c (85.3),. 10 bales from J. M. and M. A. Hastie (Albury) made 545 c (87), 21 bales from K. J. D. Geddes (Mayfield) made 543 c (84.5), and 23 bales from Cleardale Farm. Ltd (Fairlie) sold at 540 c (83.4). ; English-Leicester cross lambs’ from J. A. and R. A. Taylor (Fairlie) made 551 c (85.9) for eight bales, and five bales of Lincoln cross from P. J. O’Donnell (Waimate) sold at 535 c (83.9). Border-Romney reached 553 c (86.6) for 23 bales from Hogg Holdings (Albury); and the same price was received by J. Drinnan (Waimate) for six bales (84.5) of Border-Rom-ney.

Sales of Romney lamb's included A. W-. McConnell (Albury) with 11 bales at 545 c (86.9), Markham Brothers (Geraldine) with seven bales at 547 c (86.1), and Dry Creek station (Fairlie) with four bales at 544 c (85.8). Orari Estate Ltd (Orari) received 548 c (80.4) for 12 bales of Coopworth,

and Manahune Farming Com-' pany (Albury) sold 11 bales) of Perendale cross at 546 c ■ (86.4). 1.. |

Among fine lamb’s wool I were 13 bales of quarterbred j from J. E. and A. R. Taylor! (Fairlie) at 753 c (73.4), eight) bales of Halfbred from T. P. Lowe and Company (Hinds)' at 533 c (78.2), and four bales of Halfbred from T. G. and P.[ M. : Gallagher .(Fairlie) at' 530 c (82.4). W. M. Vessey (Mayfield): sold 14 bales of Corriedale lamb’s at 533 c (77.4). ' ! I

A limited selection of fine wool sold very well, with 10 bales of Halfbred woolly hogget i from D. T. Lowe and Company (Hinds) ’ making 690 c (75.5), and eight bales of two-tooth from the same vendor reaching 650 c (76.4). Table Hill Farm (Waimate) sold five! bales of Halfbred at 600 c (75), and Hedley Partnership [(Waimate) 13 bales at 577 c (84.5). Among Corriedale sales were-seven bales from H. and R. Lory (Kurow) at 571 c (73.8) 10 bales of wether from L. B. and D. M. Power (Waihaorunga) at*s66c (78.5), and 32 bales from N. J. R. and P. R. Hampton (Hinds) at 545 c (69.2). Eight. bales of Romney woolly hogget from T. C. McManus (Cannington) made 557 c (81.5), nine bales of Romney cross woolly hogget from Hadleigh Partnership (Mayfield) fetched 552 c (82.8) [and eight bales of

Romney-Coopworth j • cross from p. H. Evans (Cannington) made 529 c (87.8). N. R. Eggleton and Son (Tirnaru) sold 10; bales of crossbred at 535 c (89.1), and P. J. Walton (Oamaru) received ; 527 c (82.1) for eight bales of crossbred. I -

Two vendors received 527 c for Perendale — R. K, Kelland (Pleasant Point) for 13 bales [ (83.6), and G. Ml Sugrue (Cannington) for 19 bales (83.6). Leading sales of Coopworth second-shear included! four bales from J. A. and L. M. Brosnan (Temuka) at! 551 c (91.8),IB. R. Petrie (Methven) with seven bales of two-tooth at 54 Ic (92.2) and N. J. and A. W. Early (Mayfield) with 11 bales at 536 c (90). [Crossbred second-shear sales included six bales from Nimrod Downs Partnership (Albury) at 543 c (86.4), and nine bales of two-tooth from Shenley station (Albury) at 533 c (88). Willowbank Farm (Fairlie) sold eight bales of Lincoln cross second-shear at 545 c (92.6) Hogg Holdings (Albury) sold 21 bales of Romney cross two-tooth at 542 c (90), A. J. McDougall and Son (Mayfield) received 539 c (90.7) for nine bales of Romney two-tooth, G. A. Matthews (Waimate) 536 c (89.5) for six bales of Romney two-tooth, I. W. and S. M. Carr (Mayfield) 532 c (89.4) for six bales of Romney, and R. D. Taylor (Fairlie) 531 c (86.9) j for seven bales of Perendale.