HIDE AND SKIN SALES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 61, 6 December 1920, Page 8

HIDE AND SKIN SALES

The fortnightly salcß of sheepskins, hides, and tallow were held on Friday by tho various brokers. Messrs. Dalget,y and Co. report that they submitted a modiu* catalogue of all clauses to a -fair attendance of buyers. Competition all round was moßt restricted, and pricea showed a decline on last sales rates. Full-woollcd salted Bheopskina were lower by 9d. to Is., and dry skins wero down id. to Id. per lb. Messrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co. submitted a catalogue of 4400 sheepskinß, and 1100 hides and calfskins. Hheepskiißi hardly maintained laßt sale prices for dry lots, and salted skins wero from 6d. to Is. per Bkin lower. Tho market for hidos showed a lower range of values for all sbrts damaged and slippy hides being very difficult to obtain bids for in somo casca. Calfskins declined 3d. to 4d. per lb. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report that buyers operated very cautiously at a lower range of prices than experienced at la6t salo for hideß and calfskins. Sound Bheepskins were, if anything, Blightly higher than previous sale, but inferior pelted skins' were not wanted. Tallow was in very poor demand, and on a lower level than last Bales ■ Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report that they ottered a largo cata ogi* Sf sheepskins and hides to a full bench of buyers. Prices for all classes of produce were considerab y , lower than last sales, Bheepskins deeming from id. to Id per lb., salted aktns' from 6d. to Is. each7hides id. to Id. per lb., calfskins The Wiiirarapa' Farmers' Co-opcrativo Association, Ltd.,. report fair competition for good ii.<". r™* 3 . aU T™ AIM? lower than at the previous Bale. Al inferior lines wero neglected and diffluult to sell. Halfbrcd shecpstins were, lov.tr by Id to id. per lu., crossbred by ik, and all damaged lines by Jd to Id.; salted iull-wooiicu. Bheepskins vroio lower by 6d. each, ox hiues were lowOr hv Id to lid., metfrum cow hides bv Id to Id. and calfskins, buperior and medium, by ?.d. to Ai. per lb. Tallow was lower by 10a. Offerings wero 8 Messrs. Levin and Co. report that although exporters, tanners, and follmongcrs were all represented, there was no animation in the market and many lots were passed without eliciting competition, this being particularly bo with shcepBkins. The firm report that it is to-day as difficult as it was when the last report was -written to forecast tho future with any approach to confidence. As compared with last sale prices, there was an allround decline in Bheepskins. It will require Borne improvement in both the pelt market and tho wool market (and there Is at present no indications of it) to make skins worth anything more than the prices at present being realised.

The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing C 0.,, Ltd., report that sonro very good lines of ox and cow hides, co.l* skins .and sheepskins were submitted. Tho market was very dull. Competition was by no means keen; in fact, bidding; wis very slack. Compared with tho ratcß ruling last Bale, all kinds of hides 6how a further fallins-off in price, and sheepskinß were difficult of sale at even Blightly lower rates than the basis established a fortnight ago. Tallow was aIBO in poet demand, and sold from 4s. to ss. belowlast sales rates.

The rango of pricea was a> under:— Sheepskins.—Halfbrcd, 5Jd. to 6}d.: fine crossbred, 4d. to 6Jd.; medium coarse crossbred, 3Jd. to 5d.; short to half-wools. Ud. to i\i.; lambs, 2Jd. to 6d.; dead and damaged crossbred, Id. to 3id.; inferior and badly damaged, id. to 3d.; pelts, Id. to 2Jd.; damp, salted, and green, 2s. to 6s. 7d. each: pelts, salted, la. 4d. to 2s. id. each: lambs, salted, lid. to 2s. Id. each.

Hides—Ox, heavy, 591b. and over, 6M-. to HSd.; ox, medium, 501b. to 581b., 63d. to Hid. j ox, lijht, 49 lb. and under, 6d. to. OJd.; cow, medium, 421b. to" 541b., 5Jd. to 73d.; cow, light, under 421b., sd. to 7id.; cut, slippy and inferior, >d to 6Jd.; bull, stag, Id. to 6}d.; yearling, 111b. to 321b., s!d. to 12d.; calf, superior, up to lOlb., 10; - to 15>d.; calf, medium, to good, 5Sd. to 123 d.; calf, damaged.. Id. to 72d. Tallow—ln tins, 14s. to 225. fid. cwt. Sundries-Horsehair, 12d. to 20Jd.; tails, 12Jd. to 14d. ,