WOOL, HIDE & TALLOW SALES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1711, 31 March 1913, Page 8

WOOL, HIDE & TALLOW SALES.

Mcsbi\=. Dalgcty <vnd Company, Ltd., re-port:-At our monthly sale oil Friday last we ottered a good catalogue to the usual attendance of buyers. Wool and sheepakin* sold at prices equal to last pale's rates, while hidoj showed a decline of* Jd. to 3-BcL, in sympathy with other markets. Wool.—Our catalogue consisted of backcountry wool of a- seedy and inferior charactor. Crossbred, medium, 9d. to 9£d.; fine, 10d.: course and inferior, 73<1. to Gild.: lambs, fair to good, 9id. to 93d.; inferior and seedy, from 7d. to BJd.; dead, OJd. to 9d.; •inferior, 7d. to 7 ; id.; pieces and bellies. 61d. to 62d.; locks and pieces, sld. to 6jd.; locks, Ed.'to old.; inferior and dirty, 4d. to 4id.; black wool, 7.\d. Sheepskins.—Full-wool, coarsc, 7Jd., 72d. to Bd.; medium to line, Bid. to 62d.; dead, 7d.; dead, broken and damaged. 4}d. to 6J.; woolly lamb skins, 81d. to fttd.: Quarter to half-wool, 7£d.; quarter-wool, 7d.; pelts, 53d. to 6id.; inferior and broken, pelts, 3jd. to 5d.; shorn lambs, 5Ad. to 53d.; butchers' p-irf. dry and salted skins sold at extreme rates, under keen competition, more especially for well-sailed lines: pelt'.? lo ouarter-wool, .3s. Bd., 45., 4s. 2d., 4s. 4d;, <s. Bd., <s. 10d. to 55.; woolly lamb .skins, 6d., 45., 4s. 9d. to 55.; shorn lambs, Is. Id. to 2s. lod. Hide.-.—Ox. 8?d.: light, B£d.;» rows, pood line*. Bid.; medium, Gil.; country lots. 7?d. to Bd.: bulK 53d,: yearlings,: 7fd. to Bd.; cut, 63d. to 6gd.; slippy, s?d. to 6d.s horse, to 5=5. Calfskins-Sound lines, llfjd. to Is.; cut. 9.M.; slippy, 6id. to 6d. Tallow and Sundries.—Tallow, in casks, 265. 3d. per cwt.; horse hair, Is. 7*(l. to Is. B^d.; rabbit skins, Bd.: rough fat. 20s. Our next sale will be held on Friday, April 25. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Palmerston North, reoort:—Wc held our u»'siial monthly sale of wool, skins, hides, and tallow on Friday, March 28. and offered a fair catalogue to a first-class attendance of buyers. Bidding throughout was good, and wo sold the whole of our catalogue as follows:—Wool: Lambs, clean. lOd. to 10? d.; scedv, BJd. to 9d.; crossbred, 73d.; to 93d.; crossbred and nieccs. 7d. t-o 8?d. j nrtwsbrcd and dead, 6?d; halfbred, 10* d.; halfbred, dead, 9Jd.; dead, BJd. to 9Jd.-, locks and pieces. 4d. to s}d.; bellies :>nd pieces, to 7^d.: black, 7id.; crntchings. 67(1, Sheenskins: Crossbred, fine, BJd. to 82d.; crossbred. 7J.d. to fid.; crossbred. inferior, 'Ml. to 7.H1.; quarter to half-wools, 7Jd. to 7?d.: lamb?, fine, B£d.; lambs, medium, BJd.;' lambs, rjcrty and damaged, 6Jd. to G*d.; hogtrots, 53d.; dead, 6d.; lambs, pelt-?, to 6,\d.: butchers' skins, at per piece, crossbred, fine. 9s. 2d.: crossbred, medium, 4s. 3d., 4s. 9d., 55., 5?. lid.; lambs, fine, ss. od.: lamb?, damaged, Is. 4d.; quarter to hnlf-wook 3?. Id. to.3s. Bd.; pei*'s, 2s. Bd.: salted, crossbred, 3s. 10d., 4s. *d., ss. to ss: 9d.: cunrter to half-wools, 3s. 7dV, 4s. Id. to 4s. 6d.; do., 2=?. 9d.; raited la,mbs. Is. M. Calfskins :-Calf, sound, le. lb.: calf, cut, 9d.; yearlings, 73d. to cfd. Indes: Ox. medium weight, 6H. to nej* lb.: cows, medium, 73d. to 8?d.; light, VA' cows » 5d.; steers, slippv, kd. Tatlow: Casks. £26 ss. per ton; wsshod con- tail?, J*. 9d. per dozen; unwashed, Is. 7d. per dozen. <