WOOL, SKIN AND HIDE SALES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1611, 30 November 1912, Page 8

WOOL, SKIN AND HIDE SALES

Mossts. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:—We held our fortnightly sale yesterday afternoon, when we offered, in addition to a few oddments of wool, the usual quantities of skins, hides, and tallow. Coinpetition, except for-tlia best descriptions, woe somewhat dull, but prices were firm at th<s rates ruling at the last sale. Wool: Crossbred, Bsd. to 93d.; crossbred, dead, BJd. to 9d.; lambs. 83d. to 9d.; crutchings, 5Jd. to 7d.; pieces, 4id. to 6id.; locks, 43d. to sd. Sheepskins: Fine crossbrcd, 83d.; medium crossbred, 7d. to Bid.; half-wools, 7d.; quarter-wools,'6sd.; lambs, 53d. to 7d.; dead, 53d. to 6£d.; psi'is, 4Jd. to merino, Od.; crossbred, salted, 6s. Id. each. Hides* Ox, heavy and medium, 83d. to 83d.; ox, light, Sd. to 83d;; ox, cut and tsLippy, 8&d. to BJd.; cow, medium, 7£d. to 8 3-Bd.; cow, light, Bid.; cow, cut and slippy, 62d. to BJd.; calf, good, 93d. to 14id.; calf, inferior, Sid. to 9d. Tallow: In tins, 235. 6d. to 255. 6d. per cwt. Horsehair, Is. 4d. to Is. 6id. per lb.

Messrs. Levin and Company, Ltd., report:—'Wo offered 2500 sheepskins, 400 hidee and catfskine, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. Bale wool is being kept for tho first ealo on December 6. Wool: Only hag wool offering, wliich sold at last quotations. Skins 6howed a marked advance on all grades. Halfbrcds and, fine crossbreds, Bjd. to 83d.; medium and coarse crossbreds, Bid. to Bid.; quarter to lialfwools, 53d. to 7id.; dead skins, sd. to 7d.; lamb skins, 6d. to 7id.; green skins, 63. 9d. to 9s. 7d.; green pelts, 2s. 4d.; salted laimbs, 2ff. 3d. Tallow: Finn. Parcels, in shipping order, £28 10s.; tins, £20 to £26; rough fat, £19. Horsehair, Is. to Is. IOJd. per lb. Horns, ss. to 21s. per hundred. Tails, Is. Bid. per dozen. Hides: Showed an advance of a farthing on all hides, while best calfskins advanced threefarthings per lb. Ox hides, heavy, B*d. to 9d.; ox hides, medium, B*d. to 9d.; ox hides, light, Bd. to 83d.; cow hides, 7£d. to Bgd.; cut and slippy, hides, 6d. to Bd.; stag aud bull hides, 5Jd. to 6Jd.; yearlings, 7Ad. to lOfid.; calf, best, 14d. to 14jd.; calf, medium, UJd. to 13id.; calf, cuit and flippy, 6d. to 11 3-Bd.; horse" h-ldcs,-heavy, Bs. 6d. to 12s. 6d.; horse hides, light, ss. to is. Messrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co., LtS., report:—We offered a catalogue of 6000 sheepskins and eomo 9CO hides and calf, besides oddments of bag wool and tallow. Prices for wool and sheepskins were exceedingly firm, at la-st sale's rates, showing a tendency to harden. Hides were in keen demand at prices ranging from threeeighths of a penny to one halfpenny above last sale. Cow hides especially, in good condition, being in strong request. Wool: Crossbred Qeece, Bd. to 9d. per lb.; pieces, « crutchmgß, etc., 4£d. bo 7d.; dead wool, ?ld. to Bid. Sheepskins: Halfbrede and fine crossbreds, 73d. to 83d.; crossbreds, 7>sd. to BJd.; crossbreds, dead and damaged, 6d, to 63d.; crossbreds, broken and inferior, 4d, to 6d.; butchers' green and damp, 65..7 d. to 83. 4d. each. Hides: Ox hides, heavy, 83d. to 9d. per lb.; ox hides, medium, BJd. to 83d.; oxhides, light.Bd.toßgd.; cow. heavy, BJd. toß*d.; cow, medium, Old. to 8?, d.; cow, light, Bid. to B§d.; x damaged, cut and slippy, sßd. to Bd.; bulls, s£d. to 6£d.; calfskins, super, 14£ d, to 15d.; calfskins, medium to good", 103 d. to 13d.; calfskins, cut and damaged, 7d. to 9£d. Tallow: Jn tins, 14s. 6d. to 265. 6d. per cwt.; in casks, 275. to 28s. per cwt. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Reduced, report as follows:—We offered a largo catalogue of bag wool, sheepskins, hides, and tallow. The attendance of buyers was up to the average, and bidding was brisk at late rates, except for hides, and for these exceptionally high prices were obtained; prices being about Jd. to 3d. above last sale's rates. Wool . (in bags), • crossbred - fleece, 83d. to 9£d. per lb.: dead wool, Bd.to 9d.; pieces and bellies, 6d. to 7*d.; locks,, 4Jd. to sd.; t crutehings, 5Jd. to 6d. Sheepskins: Merino, 6Jd. to Bd.; crossbred fine;to B|d.; -crossbred, medium, BJd. to--Bid.; crossbred, coarse, Bd. to B|d.; cross-' hrod, short, 4Jd. to 6^d.; dead, 4id. to 7d.; damp sltins, ss. lid. to-9s. 2d. each; damp pelts, Is. 9d. to 25.; damp lambs, Is. Bd. to 1«3. lOd. Hidiss: Ox, heavy, 83d.-to 9d. per lb.; ox,.medium, Bd. to B}d.; ox, light. Bd. to 8&d.; cow, Bd. to Bid.; d-a«maged hides,, 78. to 73d.; calf, best, 12d. to 14d.; calf medium, 9!d. to lid.; calf, damaged, 5Jd. t-o 9d. Tallow: In casks. 275. to L'Ss. 3d.; fat, in tins, 235. 9d. to 265. 6d. per cwt.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Report on their wool,.skin, ami hide sale, held yesterday, aB follows:—Wo offered a good catalogue of all classes of produce to the usual attendant of buyers. Prices for all lots wero on a par with last sale's, ratca. Wool: Bag lots, ordinary crossbred, 73d. to BJd.; dead, fijd.: cmtchings, 53d. to 61d.; pieces, 53d. to 6}d.; locks,. 3d. Skins: Fine:'crossbred, 83d.; medium, EJd.; coarEC, Bd.j'.'dead, 6d. to 63d.: iambs, 6Jd.; halfwools. 6Jd.;''lambs' pelts, • 5d.; short and inferior, sjd. to. 6Jd.; pelts. Is. 7d. to 2s. Id.;. sma.ll, Is. 2d.; lambs, Is. IOd.V pal ted crossbred, 7s. Hides: Good-conditioned medium heavy ox, 9d.; modium ox, 8 3-Bd. to BJd.; light ox, BJd.: light to medium cow«, Sid.; heavy cows, 81d.; oows, damaged, 7jd. to 7 3-Ed.; calf, superior, 14id. and 13 3-8 d..; ordinary, 9Jd. to 103 d. Oowtails, Is. 4Jd. per. dozen. Tallow, in tins, 255. 3d. to 265. per cwt.'; inferior, 18s. per csrt. The United Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., and the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., renort as follows:—Fortnightly sales of wool, sheepskins, hides, \ tallow, etc., were held yesterday. Prices ruled as undor:—Wool: Held for wool sale. Sheepskins: Half bred fullwoolled, Bd. t0.83d.; crossbred. 7Jd. to BJd.; crcoibred short-woollcd. 6d. to 7d.: crossbred dead, 53d. to'Vd.; crossbred inferior and torn, sd. to' 6d.; crossbred pelts, 3Jd. to 43d. Hides: Ox, heavy, 7id. to 83d.; ox, medium, 7d. to Bd.; cow, 6d. to 7gd.; cow, cut and slippy, 6d. to 7id.; cow, yearlings, 7id. .to 9d.; calf, superior, Is. to Is. 2d..; calf, medium, lOd. to Is.; calf, cut and slippy, 7d. to 9Jd. Messrs. James Macintosh and Co. report having held their fortnightly sale of wool, and sheepskins yesterday. There was a good attendance of buyers, and competition was very keen throughout tho" sale. Prices, which were very firm, were a$ follow:—Wool:'Only bag lots offered. Second pieces, 6d.; locks, 43d. Sheepskins: Crossured, fine. BJd.; medium, 73d. to Bid.; seconds, 7d. ;• dead, 6Jd. to 63d.; inferior, 5Jd.; stragglers, 63d.; half-wools, 6d.; halfwools, seconds, 5Jd.; sh<?rts, inferior, 4Jd.; hoggets,, dead, 6id.