SKIN AND HIDE SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1450, 27 May 1912, Page 8

SKIN AND HIDE SALES.

Jbssrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston worth, report:—At our usual monthly sale on Friday, we offered a large catalogue to a full attendance of buyers. Competition was very keen for all lots, and we cleared ths whole catalogue at the following satisfactory range of prices Wool.—lnferior seedy Crossbred, 63d. to 7Jd. t - lambs. 7d. to 7jd.; dead wool, 6jfd. to 7Jd.; bellies and picces, sd. to 5Jd.; black, 6d.; locks and pieces, 4d. to 4:fd.; locks, 3Jd. to 33d.; inferior crutchings, 3Jd. Sheepskins—Crossbred, full-wool, coarse, 6id. to 6?d.: medium, 6ifd. to 7d.; damaged, 6d.; half to three-quarter-wool, crossbred, 6Jd. to 7d.; quarter-wool, s;d. to 6. l d.; shorts and pelts, 4*d. to 53(1.; lambs (woolly), 63d. to 7d.; short and shorn, 3£d., 43d. Jo Sid.; inferior and damaged, pelts, 2>,d. to 3Jd.; dead hoggets, 4id. to 5(1.; dead and damaged, 4Jd.' to 4id.; butchers' green and salted skins at per piece: Full-wool crossbred, t.o ?Jd.; liitlfwools (heavy), ss. to ss. 3d.; others, 3s. 9d., 45., 4s. 3d., 4s. 7d., 4s. 9d„ to 55.; shorts and quarter-wools, 2s. 9d., 3s„ 3s. 4d., to 3s. Ed.; lambs, 2s. Id. to 3s. 9d. Hides.—Heavy ox, 7Jd.; medium ox, 73d.; light ox. 7d.; cows, best lines to 6jd. to 7d.; good, 6Jd.; inferior, sd. to 6 3-Scl.; cut, 6d. to 6id.; yearlings, 6id. to 7d.; bulls, 51(1. to 5Jd.; horseliides, to Bs. each. Calfskins.—Best lines, 93d. to lOd.; cut and slippy, 4d.,t0 7d. Sundries: Tallow, in tins, 245.. to 255. per cwt.: barrels, 255. per cwt.; rough .fat, 19s. 3d.; horsehair, Is. 9d. per lb.; tips, 1.?. 3d. per dbz. Messrs. Abraham aad Williams, Ltd., report:—Wo held our monthly Palmerston sale on Friday, and offered a good catalogue to a fair attendance of buyers. Biddine throughout was very spirited, and we made a total clearance at prices equal to late rates. WoOl:—Crossbred, 6d. to 73 d.; lombs, <Ud. to 73d.; cruteliings (slightly seedy), sd. to 5Jd.; dead, 6!d. to 73d.; blaok, 6id.; locks, 2jd. to 43d.; bellies, 6d.; pieces, 31d. to s£d. Skins: Crossbrod. fine, 6d. to 73d.; crossbred, medium, 43d. to 63d.; crossbred, damaged, 4d. to 5d.: merinos, sd. to 6(1.; b'ack. 5Jd.; dead, s':d.: hoggets, 51(1.; lambs, 5Jd to 62(1.; quarter t-o half-wools, 5Jd. to old.; pelts, 4d. Butchers' skins, at per piece: Crossbred, fine, Z«. lOd.; crossbred, medium, 2s. 10d., 3s. Id., 3s. 6d„ 3s lid., 4s. 2d.. 4s. 6d„ ss. 3d., ss. 8d„ to 6s. 6d.; crossbred, dauiagsd. 35.: lambs. Is. to 3s. 7d.: calfskins, sound, 8(1. to lCd.; cut and slippy, Gd. to Did.; rough. 7d.; yearlings, to 6?,t1.: cut and slippy, 5(1. to 6Sd. Hides: Ox, medium weights, 7d. to 7r,d.; heavy, 7Jd.: cow, light-weights, 6}d. to 7Jd.; mediums. 61(1. to 7d.: heavy. 6 3-Bd.: cut and dlippy. 4gd. to 6Jd.: heifers nnd steers, 6 3-8(1. to 6£d.: bulls, 53d. Horse hides, ss. 6d. to Bs. 6d. each. Tallow: In casks, £26 per ton; in tins, £23 per ton. Horsehair, lCd. to Is. 74d. per lb.; cowtails, Is. 6d. per dozen.