HIDE AND SKIN REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 7

HIDE AND SKIN REPORTS.

Messrs. Dalgcty aud Co., Ltd., report:Wo held our lorinigntly sale on Thursday aftonioon uefore tno usual attendance of buyers. Oatalosues showed about the same offerings as last sale, and compstition ior nil lots was keen, cTcrytning oliered being sold at full values. Wool: l'riccs on a par with lato rates. We quote :-iialibred, 9d.; crossbred, 7Sd. to Bjd.; laniDs, 6Jd. to Bid.; crutchincs, Bd. to bid.; pieces. 3Jd. to 5d.; locks and pieces, 3}d. to 33d. Skins: Market, dim. lTleoa in sdlern' favour. We quote:— Urosjorcd,- 6Jd. to 7d.; crossbred, shorts, fii. i-j (ill.; lambs, 5Jd. to 6jd.; pclte, 2d. lu 41<1.; nosgets, 7}d.; dead .aud broken, fjd. to G<u.; crossbred damp, 2s. 6d. to os. Id. each; lambs damp, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 5d.;. hoggti", <W Wii. Hides: Market very firm at lato rates. Wo quote:—Ox, heavy 7 4-Bd. to 72d., medium 6d. to 6Sd.; cows, heavy 6 6-Bd. to 7d., light 6d.; yearlings, 6 4-Bd.; calf, 7d. to IOJd.; rabbitskins, 9jd. to 123 d. Tallow, in tins, 235. 3d. to 235. 9d. Messrs. Murray, Eoborts, and Co. re-port:-Our catalogue consisted of 60 bales of wool, of which a fair proportion was early crutchings, 2500 sheepskins, 250 hides, and 2 casks of tallow. The attendance of buyers was large, aud bidding very animated. Crutchinge, especially, wero in strong request, and light-conditioned parcels brought high prices. Wo can confidently recommend growers to forward consignments to this market. Hides and skins were in strong demand at prices equal to lato rates. Wo quote prices currents—Wool: Crossbred medium, Bd. to 83d. per lb.; crossbred, coarse, heavy, and dingy, 7Jd. to Bd. per lb.; lambs, lightconditioned, 9d. to Sid.: lambs, mixed, 7Jd. to 8»d.; locks, pieces, etc, 33d. to 6Jd.; crutcliinge. good, 6d. to CJd.; crutchings, seedy and inferior, 43d. to 5' 2 d. Skins: Orossbrcds, medium to fine, Bid. to M.; crossbreds, coarse, 7d. to 7Jd.; erossbreds, quarter to half-wools, 6d. to 7Jd.; ctoesbrede, inferior, 3d. to 6d.; lambs, woolley, 7Sd. to SJd.; lambs, short, 6d. to 7d.; dead and hoggets 4d. to 6Jd.; green, salici, nnd damp, 4s. 2d. to 6s. each. Hides: Ox, medium to heavy, 7d. to 7Jd.; ox, light, 7d. to 71d.; cows, good, 7d. to 7.1 d.; cows, ordinary, medium, 6»d. to 63d.; dama<wi, cut, and slippy, 4>d. to 6id.; cali, medium to ijood, fiid. to 93d.; calf, damaged, sd. to 7*d. Tallow: Casks, in shipping order, 275. 6d. to 28s. 9d. per cwt.; tins, etc., 20b. to 245.; rough fat, 16s. to 20s. Babbitskins, 10d. to 13d. ter lb.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Blenheim, report holding their monthly wool, skin, and hide gale at Blenheim, on Tuesday loot, as follows:—We had a very nice cataloguo of about 1500 sheepskins, 40 hides, 18 bales wool, also quantity of bag wool and fat, all of which wo disposed of. Attendance of buyers was average, and prices realised wore as follow:—Sheepskins: Quarter-wools, crossbred, 4Jd- to 53d.; inferior, 31d.; half bred, 53d.; merino. 43d. to s}d.- half-wool, crossbred, 5Jd- to sid.; fine crossbred, 7d.; butchers' crossbred, 6d. to 7Jd.; halfbred, 61d. to fid.; merino, 55d.; three-quarter-wool, crossbred, 6Jd.; lino crossbred, 7}d.; halfbred, 7d.; full wool, fine crossbred, 7>.d.; half-wool, 73d.: merino, 6Jd.; lambs, sd. to 7Jd,; damaged crossbred, 5Jd.; double Oecccs, 5d.; black, 4d.; seedy. Id.; dead, 31<l; first pelts, 3jd.; second pelts, 3d.; green, Zs. 3d., 3s. Id., 3s. lid., to 43.; damp, Is. 9d.; bale-wool, half bred, 9Jd.; merino, 9Jd.; dingy halfbred, SJd.; black and white, 73d.; half and three-quarter-bred pieces, 6id.; crossbred, 5d to 63d.; seedy lambs, 6d.; lambs, crutchings, 5Jd. to s*d.; bag-wool, first crutchings, 5Jd.; second crutchings. JJd.: (leece, 61d.; dingy fleece, sid.; bellies and nieces, lid.; dead, 4d. Fat: Rough, 10s. 6d. to 175.; rendered, 17s. 6d. to 20s. Hides: Ox, 5Jd. to SHd.; cow, 5Jd. to 5 2-Bd.; calf, sd. Horsehair, Is.

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report us follows:—There was Rood competition at the sale to-day, when wo submitted 30 bales and some bags of wool, and a fair-sized catalogue of skins, hides, and tallow. Buyers from South Island were amongst the usual operators, and we have to report a total clearance at rates fully up to last sales. Orutchings a.ro now coming to baud in increased quantities, and are eagerly competed for. Wo duote-.-Wool: Crossbred, iucdinm, 7M. 'to Bid. per 11).; crossbred, coarse and" seedy, 6d. to 7*d.; lambs, medium, 7Jd. to 6d.; lambs, Bccdy, sd. to 6Jd.i crutchings, good, 5Jd. to 6d. ; crutchings, te«dy, 4id. to 5Jd. Sheepskins: lullwoolled eoarsc.-7Jd. to 73d.; halfbred, 73d.; to 9!d.; quarter to half-wools, 51d. to 6Jd.; damaged pelts, short wools, 2d. to 4Jd.; dead skins, 5Jd. to 6d.; lamba, woolly, 7d. to 7»d.j lambs, shorn, lid. to 64d.; Breen skins, 3s. to 4b. 4d. each. Hides: Ox, heavy, 7Sd. to 7Jd.: ox, medium, 6Jd. to Till.; cow. 6d. to 63d.; faulty and dry hides, 4d. to 63d.; calf, best. 9d. to 9?, d.; calf, faulty, Id. to 53d. Tallow in tine, 2lc. 3d. to 245. per cwt. Rabbitskins. lid. to Is. 3d. per lh.

Messrs. Abraham nnd Williams, Ltd., Wellington, report on their sale held on Thursday as follows :-We offered a good catalogue of skins, hides, and tallow to a large attendance of buyers. Bidding vas brisk for everything offered, and prices remained on a, par with those ruins at last sales. Wo cuotc:-Wool: Only a "few lots of rough fleece offered, which sold at 63d. to 7Jd.; locks, 3d. Skins, halfwools, 61(1. to 7(1.; quarter-wools, 6d.; dead, 61(1.; pelt?. 13d.: lambs, 7d.; shorts and inferior, 3d. to 43d.; butchers' half-dry and LTcen sood. 6s. 2d. to 6s. 6d. to 6s. 10a.; liclitc'r, ss. 3d. to ss. 9(1.; light, 4s sd. to Vs 9(1 ' shorn lambs. 3s. 3d. Hides: No heavy"offerinn. Medium ox, ■ 70d- ; liKlit, 7rt to 7id.; heavy cows. 6Sd. to 63d.; nicdiiim to light, 62(1. to 7d.; cows, damaged, ssd • 3'earMngs, 6*d.: calf, medium, Bid. to 9il •' damaged, "Wd. Tallow, iiicdinra miality 265. cwt.f horns, 20s. 3d. ner lii'ndred; small, 95.; cowtails, Is. 9d. doz.