WOOL AND HIDE SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 20 April 1912, Page 13

WOOL AND HIDE SALES.

The following are brokers' reports relating to wool, hide, and tallow sales held yesterday.— Messrs. Dalgoty and Company, Ltd., report:—Wo held our usual sale of wool, skins, hides, and" tallow yesterday afternoon .after a lapse of a, month, owing to tho Easter holidays intervening. There was a good attendance of buyers, and with competition keen, satisfactory prices wore roalisod. Wool: Crossbred, 63d. to 7jd.; lambs, 7id. to 83d.; pieces, 4jd.; locks, 31d.; crutchings, 43d. Shcpskius: Crossbred, line, 7id. j crossbred, medium, 61d. to 7d.; broken nnd damaged, 4jd. to sid.; lamb, 51(1. to 6id.; dead, 43d. to 51d.; polts, 23d. to lid.; quarter-wools, Sid. to 61d. Hides: Oi, heavy, 73d.; ox.light, bid.; ox, cut and slippy, 5Jd. to 6&d.; cow, medium, 6Bd. to 73d.; cow, cut and slippy, 5Jd. to 6j>d.; horse. 9s. 6d. each: calf, pood, lljd.; calf, cut and slippy, 6jd. to 9d.; cow tails, Is. 7id. doz.; horns, 15s. per 100. Tallow: Good, in shipping order, 28s. per cwt. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—Wo offered a large catalogue to a good attendance of buyers. Competition was good, and prices were Arm at full market rates. Wool: Rough crossbred, 6d. to 7d.; lambs, 7d. to 7*d.; dead wool, 7d.; pieces, 4d. to 51d. Skins: Fino and crossbred, 7id.; coarse and crossbred, 63d.; lambs, 6jd.; medium, half-wools, 6Jd.: coarse half-wools, 53d.; quarter-wools, s}d.; dead, 4d. to 5d.; pelts, -Id. to 41d.; inferior and short crossbred, 31d. to s}d.; biitchers' half dry and green quarter-wools, heavies, 4s. to 4s. 6d. to 4s. 9d.; quarter-wools, 3s. 2d. to 3s. 4d. to 3s. lid.; woolly lambs, 3s. Bd.; Bhorn, 2s. to 2s. 5(1.; pelts. Is. 3d. to Is. 4rt.; rabbitskins, S3d. Hides: Heavy ox, 73d. to Bd.; medium ox, 7gd. to 71d.; light, 6Jd. to 7d.; heavy cows, 7d. to 7sd.; medium cows, bid.; light. 6Jd.; stags. 53d.; slippy cows, 55d. to 61(1.; fair calf, 9£d. to 105 d.; damaged, 63d. to 63d. Tallow: In casks, medium, £27 inferior, £24; in tine, good, 245. 6d.: medium, 235. 6d.; inferior, IBs,; rough fat, 18s. cwt. Messrs. Murray JRobcrts and Co., Ltd., re-port>:-\Vc offered 50 bales of wool, 4800 skins, and 500 hides. Tho attendance of buyers waa rather larger than usual, and competition was very keen. Prices for all produce ruled fully on a par with late figures, with the exception of inferior hides, which wcro slightly easier. Crossbred, medium, Bd. to 83d. per lb.; crossbred, coarse, 61(1. to 7Jd.; crossbred, 6ccdy, dingy, 6d. to 63d.; lambs, bright, BJd. to 83d.; lambs,'dull, 7d. to 73d.; lambs, seedy, s£d. to 6d.; pieces and bctlios, 4*d. to Sid.; locks. 3Jd. to 41d. Shepskins: Crossbred, fluo, 7d. to 7}d. per lb.; crossbred, 61d. to 7d.; crossbred, inferior pelt, 6Jd. to 6d.; dead and damaged, 4d. to s}d.j badly damaged, Sid. to 3Jd.; lambs, 3Jd. to 6id.; lambs, short to half-wools, 3d. to sd. Hides: Ox, heavy, 7id. to 81d. per lb.; ox, modium, 7d. to 73d.; oi, light, 6Jd. to 7Jd.; cow, beat, 7d. to 7id.! cow, medium, 6Jd. to 6Jd.; damaged, cut and slippy, 4d. to 6d.; calf, good, IOJd. to lid.: calf, medium, 9d. to 9id.: calf, damaged, 51d. to 73d. Tallow: In casks. 275. to 28s. 9d. per cwt.; in tins, 16s. to 21s. per cwt. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows:—We sold about 60 bales of wool, a number of | bags of wool, and a considerable quantity of sheepskins, hides, calfskins, rabbitskins, tallow, etc. Buyers wcro in full attendance, and good prices were obtained for everything sold. Tho woo] consisted mostly of crossbred stragglers, together with a few lots of ci'utchings. The wool news from London is vory encouraging. Cable advices regarding the current series report a firm market for floe wool, with a ri'so of about 5 per Gent, for medium and ooarse crossbreds. Wool: Crossbred stragglers. 7d. to 71d.; lamb, 7d. to B{d.; crutchings, good, 51d. to 6d.; crutchings, seedy and heavy, ,4d. to fid.; dead wool, 6d. to 63d.; pieces, 4d. to 63d. ltabbitsltins, from sd. to lOd. lb. Sheepskins: Crossbred, fine, 7(1. to 7}d.; medium and coarse crossbred, 6}d. to 7d.; crossbred half-wooll, sd. to 51d.; crossbred, short and pelts, 31d. to 41d.; crossbred, dead and broken, 3id. to 51d.; crossbred, badly broken, 2Jd. to 3d.; crossbred, lambskins, 43d. to 6d.; crossbred, green and salted, 2s. to 4s. 7d. Hides: Heavy ox, 7|d. to Bd.; medium ox, 6d. to 7d.; light bx, 61d. to 63d.; cow, 61<L to 7nd.; faulty, Sid. to 61d.; calf, good, IOJd. to 121 d.: calf, medium, 81d. to 10d.: calf, damaged, 2d. to 6Jd.j yearlings. 6*d. to BJd.; cowtails, Is. 4(1. to Is. 6Jd. per doz. Tallow: In casks, 275. 6d. to 28s. cwt.; in tins, 18s. to 245. 6d. cwt. The United Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., quote as follows:—Wool: Lambs, 7jd. to Bd.; lambs', seedy, 6d. to 6id.; crossbred, in bags, 6id. to 73d.; dead, 61d. to 7d.; pieces, 4d. to 5d.; locks, 3d. to 4Sd. Sheepskins: Crossbred, full-woollcd, £3d. to 61(1.; modium, sd. to 61d.; short, sid. to 4d.; dead and hogget. 4Jd. to Sid.; damaged and broken, 3Jd. to 4*d. Calfskins: Medium and good, 7d. to 93d. Hides: Ox, heavy, 7d. to 73d.; ox, medium, 6Jd. to 7d.; cow, good to medium, 6d>. to 7d.; cow. cut and slippy, 43d. to 6d. Messrs. Levin and Co.. Limited, report.— Wo offered 90 bales of wool, 2000 ehcepskins, 500 hides and calfskins, and a uuant(ty of tallow and horsehair. Wool: Prices were firm, and all lots sold at full market rates. Fine crossbred, Bd. to 9d.; medium crossbred, 7d. to 83d.; coarse crossbred, 7d. to 73d.; inferior crossbred, 6Jd. to 6.|d.; pieces, 4Jd. to 51d.: lockp, 3d. to 4Jd. Skins: Firm. Halfbrcos and find crosslireds, 7d. to 7d.; medium and coarso crossprecis. 61d. to 71(1.; dead skins, 4Jd. to Sao.: lamb skins, s«d. to 61d.; green lambs, to 4s. 7d.; greon pelts, to 4s. 7d. Tallow: Firm. Parcels in shipping order, £28 55.; tins, £20 to £20; rough fat, £'9. Horso hair. Is. to Ib. Old. Horns. ss. to 21a. per hundred. Tails, Is. 6}d. per dozen. Hides: unchanged. Ox hides, hoavr, 7>d. to 73d.; ox hides, medium, 7d. to 7Jd.; oi hides, light, Sid. to 71d.; cow hides, 6d. to 71d.: cut and slippy hides, 2Jd. to 7Jd.; stag anil bull hides, sd. to 5d3.; yearlings, 73d. to Old. calf, best, lOd. to 12Jd.; calf, medium, Bjd. to 10d.; calf, cut and slippy, sjd. to 83(1,; horso hides, heavy, 7s. 6(1. to 9s. 9d.; horse hides, light, ss, to Bs. 3d.