WOOL, SKIN, AND HIDE SALES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2259, 19 September 1914, Page 10

WOOL, SKIN, AND HIDE SALES

The fortnightly tales of wool, skins, and .hides were resumed yesterday :— JiThe New.,. Zealand ..Loan and Mercantile Agency' Comiiany. Limited, had a good attendance. Tho demand for wool wa<= lim-. itod; sheepskin? and hides of good quality sold exceptionally well, end the flrm:.«rtimate that for round lijtfM they obtained a, fnrthinp p?r lb. hieiwr price than lest Bale. Good, sound, full-Ttoo]lcd sheenfkins sold up to C3d.. but for inferior and diiraMcifl low prkM hnd to bs accepted. The market for tallow is very -sreolt. Mews. Levin and Co. offered tiiUow, (■kins, and bides to a. good attendance of bnyers. wfle easier by about 20s. per ton. Skins were in good demand at prices ranging from 2d. to 2Jd. below values current before- the outbreak of wit. . This the firm consider wttsfdetory under existing circumstancc-s. Hides wero eaecrIy competed for, though oi were slightly airier, while cows showed fin advance of ri farthing to' a halfpenny on last sole rates. Calfskins sold exceedins>7 well at Bd. advance on practically oil claefcs. Messrs. AbraJiam and Williams, Ltd., report.a laTge attendance of buyers, with active, eom-oetition for all classes of produce. Ilidos wero firm at on advance of »d.' for ox and 3-Bd. to Jd. for cow hides. Skins wero about ?d. per.lb. lower, which nvust be considered very pntisfa'ctorv, as hatiAtm Tcport? a fall of Ud. per lb. at yesterday's sale. Toliins into consideration tho increased froight and insurance chnrjros. .tho market is on a full parity with London. ■ ' ■ ■ Wojl.—Crossbred, medium coarFC. 6>.d. to 63d.; pieces and bellies, 25d. to I'd.; loolra and piores, 3Jd.; crutchin,?s, medium to [rood, 4M. to 65d.: criitcbiut" reedy and inf«*<nr. 3M. to SJfl.: lfltnbs. sJd.' Shoepskins.—KnifbTed, -7}d.; fine crossbred, 6M. to 7>d.; medium coarse cro.wbred. 53d. to 7d.: short to. tialfrvrods, 3d. to 6d.; dead, and damaged crossbred, 3d. to 5Jd,: inferior and badly ddmoued, Id. to >A.; lamhfi. 4d. to Sid.: domp. Raltod. «nd gmTO. 2s. 9d. to 6s. 5<1.: pelt«, Jld. to 3>d. Uidc-s.-Os heavy, 601b. up. 7d. to 7 7-Sd. • ox. medium, 501b. to 591b.. 7d. to 7 S-Bd.: ox, lieht, <91b. and under, 7d. to 7M.: cow, heavy, 551h. and over. 6ld. to 7 3-fld.; cow, mort'.um. 421b. to 541b.. 6?d. to 7>d.; cow, Hehk. uiwl.er 4?1b., 73d. to 7 5-Bd.;cu't, slippy, nn dinferior. 6d. to 7d.; bull. F.+a«r. 2d. to 3 S-Bd.; ye'flT.lings, 7d. to Rd.: calf, superior, lCd. to 11 3-Bd.: c<i.Tf. medium to irood. 8d to 11 l-Bd.: calf, dam/isjed. 4d. to 8 7-Bd Tallow—ln casks, 19s. 6d. to 225.: in tins, etc., 14s. to 19s. Sundries—Cow-tails, Iβ. sd.