WOOL, HIDE, AND TALLOW SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 7

WOOL, HIDE, AND TALLOW SALES.

4 Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their fortnightly sale of wool, skins, and hides and tallow yesterday afternoon. The report states:—Good catalogues were offered to a large attendance of buyers. We eloarcd all our .catalogue at very satisfactory prices. Wool and crutch* ings—Prices were on a part with last sale rates, but inferior lots wcro slightly easier. Our offering consisted mainly of crutehings, for which there was good inquiry, bright clean lots being keenly competed for. We quote:—Medium crossbred, 7?, d. to 3d.; lamb, 73d.; crutcliings, good, 6d. to 7d.; interior, 4i|d. to sid.: locks, 4d. to 43d.; washed pieces, 5Jd. Sheepskins— Prices were slightly easier, but green skins showed a slight advance. We quote:— Crossbred, 7u. to 73d.; medium crossbred, 5Jd. to Csjd.; hoggets, to 73d.; half-wools, s*d. to ?id.; crossbred, green, 3s. 6d. to 3s. lid. Hides—Prices showed a small decline. We quote—Ox, medium, 6id. to 6gd.; ox, cut, 6ijd. to 6id.; cow, medium, 6d. to 63d.; calf, Bd. to 9£d.; tails, Is. sd. a dozen. Tallow—ln shipping order, 265. 3d. to 28s. 9d.; iu tins, 235. 6d. t0'235. ,: 9d. Itabbitskins, Is. per lb.; horsehair, Is. 2d. to Is. Gd. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Wellington, report on their sale held ye« torday as follows:—Wo offered a largtt catalogue, comprising 40 bales crutchinirs, 2001) skins, and 2CO hides, and a quantity of tallow and oddments, to a full attendance of buyers, whose competition waq spirited for everything offered. We quote:—Wool: Crutchings, good clean, medium quality, Gsd. tu 'Ik; coarse and lieavv, s*d. to 6d..j seedy ana poor, 43d.; lough crossbred, 74d. te 7Ad.; Jambs, logstained, Cd. Skins: inferior, dead, sid.; half-wools, coarse, G^d.; medium, 7Jd.; three-quarter-wools, coarse, 7£d.; quarter-wools. 6d.j pelts, stale, 4Ad.; shorn lambs. 6id.: damp skins, woolly iambs, 4s. sd. to 4s. ttd.; half-wools, 4s. Bd. to ss. Id.; crossbred .three-quarter-wools, ss. lOd. to 6s. Id.; heavier, 63. 6d. t-o 6s. lOd. Hides: These were on a par with last sale. Ox hides, heavy, 7£d. to 7sd.; light, 6Zd. to 7d.; cow, light, 6j*d. to 62d.; heavy.. 63d. 5 yearlings, 6|jd. to 6*d.; calfskins, BJd. to yjd. Cowtails, Is. 4d. per doz. Tallow, lu shipping order, £28 ss. to £28 ,10s. per ton. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantilo Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows:—At our sale yesterday we submitted to a, large attendance of buyers a catalogue comprising 61 bales and IB bass of wool, two bales and a number of packages of rabbitskins, 2250 sheepskins, 70 hides, calfskins, and a quantity of tallow.' There was good competition for all lots, at prices equal to last sale's rates, exuetit for hides, which are id. per lb. lower. Wo quote:—Wool: ilerino fleece, shabby, 3Jd. uut* lb.; merino, bellies and pieces. Vd • merino, pieces and locks, crossbred, stragglers' lleece, 6Jd. to 7d.; crossbred, inferior, 7Jd. to 72d.; lambs, seedy, SUL; crutchings, medium, 53d. to 63d.; crutchings, seedy, 4Jd. t-o 5Jd.; locks. 4Jd. Skins: f'ull-woolled, coarse, 7id. to 73d.; half bred, 7|d. to 9d<; quarter to half-wools, sid. to 7Jd.: damuged sUorn pelts, Id. to-4£d.; dead and broken skins, s£d. to 61d.;- lambskins, woolly, 7id. to 7sd.; iambslvjus, shorn, 43d. to 63d.; grconskins, 3s. 4d. to 6h. 6d; <>ach; green lambs, sjiorn, 2s. 6d. to is. Id. Hides: Ox, light, 61d. to Gild.; cow, 6d. to 63d.; faulty and dry hide:-, 23d. to s£d.; calf, sound, BJd. to 9d.; will, faulty, 3ld. to 6*d.; bull hides. 4£d. tosJd. Tallow, in tins, 225. 6d. to 235. Cd. per cwt. llabbitskins, 3d. to 123 d. per lb.

Messrs. Levin and Company, Limited, report:—At our sale yesterday wo offered 60 bales ot wool, 20CO sheepskins, 750 liideß, and calfskins, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. There was a- good attendance of buyers. Wool: Competition was Rood, any clean criifchings being keenly competed for, lull dlnjiy lots were rallinr weaker. Wo quote:—Fine crossbred, 9d. to Wild.; coarse crossbred. 7Jd. to B>d.; lambs wool, 7J(I. to 9d.; pieces and bellies. 4id. to 6d.; looks. 2Sd. to 45(1.; crutchings, 4d. to 7Jd. Skins: Dry skins were about a farthing per Hi. under recent prices but green .skins sold up to full value. We quote:--Fine crossbnvds., Kd. In EJd.; medium crossbreds. 7d. to 73d.; coarEo crossbrens, 6d. to 7.! d.; hogget skins, 6d. to 61(1.; dead skins. 4d. to 6Jd.; lamb skins, 53d. to 71d.: quarter to half-wools. 4<l. to 7Jd.; dry pelts. 2Jd. to 5d.; green skins. 3s. 6d. to 6s. 6d.: lamb pelts, 2s. 3d to fe. 6d. Tallow shows a slight drop, in sympathy with London. Parcels, in shopping orders, £28 55.; tins, £20 to £23 55.; rough Sax, .£lO to £16. Horsehair, Is. to Is. 4d. per !b.; horns, ss. to 15s. per IPOcowtails, Is. Bd. per dozen. Hides: Hidea wore again down, oversea markets giving no encouragement, though cow hidoii held their position M Ihu. expense of ox hides Calfskins were firm at last ralo rates. We quote :-Ox hides (heavy), 7d. to 7i;d.; ox hides (medium), 63d. to 7Jd.; ox liidan (light), 6Sd. to 63d.; cow hides, 6Jd. to «d. ; cut and slippy hides, 3d. to 5d.: stag hides 4d. to 5?,d.j bull hides, <d. to sid.: vciu , ' HiiES. sd. to 63d.: calf. best. 9d. to'93d. calf, medium, 7id. to Sid.; calf, cut u:id slippy, sd. to 52d. Messrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co., Ltd., report:—V/o oft'ered a ciinlogui! ot leu ings, 4000 sheepskins, and ICO hides. The attendance of buyers was very large, and on about a par with last sale, oxrenui , " for thu lieavier and inferior sorts of crutchlugfl, which woi'o about a farthing nice ]iarccls, wlu-ili sold .it very full i;-ice.i. We nuote values ruling as bolow:—Wool: Crossbred, stragglers, 6id. to Md. per Ib.; piercs. bellies, etc.. 33d to 6d.; crutehings, light, and well sorted, 6>d. to 78(1.: crutchings. medium, 53d. to 6Jd.; crntcliings, heavy, seedy, etc., •Ud. to s>d. Skins: Orossbroil. (l::o half, wools, 7>d. to CJd.; ciMßsbreil, medium and coarse, 7id. to 8-d.; crossbred, short, 55d. to 63d.; crossbred, dead and inferior, sd. to 6{d.; eriisslirod. badly damaged, 2M to 43d.; lambs, woolly,'7}d. to BJd. ; lani'v; short and half-wools. EJd. to 7.M.; lamlSV damaged aud Inferior, 3Sii. to 5»d.; crossbred, green and damp. ss. to 6a. 3d. each; lambs, green and damp, 3s. 5(1. to 4s, 6d' Hides: Ox. homy. c3d u, 7iu pel ]i, • , medium and lignt, ml. u t;;ii.-. cows, gn.-id 6;, d. to 6;d.: cov;s. ordinary, Kid. to 61(1 : calf, fair and medium, 7Jd. to 83(1. Ta'llow, tius. 20s. to Hα. 6d. cwt,: casks, 27s to 28s. 9d. cwt.