HIDE AND SKIN SALES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 73, 20 December 1920, Page 8

HIDE AND SKIN SALES

Tho fortnightly sales of hides, skins, and tallow were held on Friday by tho various brokers. Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report that medium catalogues were offered lb a full bench of buyers, but their buying limits wero low. Competition was by no means keen, and a fair number of the lots wero passed in. I'ricos generally were on a par with tlie rates ruling at last sale. Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co. report thai their catalogues, comprising an offering of 4400 sheepskins and 1200 hides and ealf6kiiiS. Competition was at times spirited ftt about the level of-last ealo for sheepskins. Light-weight hides and heavies about maintained last salo raifes, • but medium weights were rather easier, as wero also yearling nnd calf. Thcro was considerably more demand, however, for slippy and damaged slip, which wero neglected at last sale, and theso ivero quitted at a substantial advance. Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Lt'd., roport (hut competition at a low rnngo of prices was fairly keon. Sheopskins sold at about level' of la.?t sales, but hides and calf-

ekins wero lower by Id. to 2d. (per lb. Tallow and fat were in fair demand at about last sales' rates. Messrs. Levin and Co. report thati competition was poor and the bidding lacked spirit. Compared with last safe, light ox and cow ludes barely held their own. Heavy ox were neglected. Calfskins showed a decline of 2d. to 3d., and all classes of sheepskins were slightly easier. Tallow was unchanged, most lota being pnssed in. Tho Wairarapa Farmers' Co-oporativo ■Association, Ltd., report ' wholesale competition for all good lines. Inferior lines, however, wero difficult of sale. Compared with previous sale, fine-wooihd sheepskins were firmer; coarse and inferior wero weaker; 6alted and green sheepskins were also lower than at previous sale. Hides were lower all round. Superior calfskins wero lower by 3d. l>cr lb., highest price attained being 12jd. Tallow was firmer. Tho Now Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tivo Distributing Co., Ltd., report thav competition was rather keener than at tho previous sale, with the result that' certain lines wero from par to }d. better, especially in tho case of lialfbred skins. Tho market for hides was also firmer, although somewhat irregular; heavy ox were as high as 121 d., and medium cow u pto 71d. Calfskins (101b.) sold up to 12|d.. whilst ilie top prico for medium cftlf (lul not rcficli last sale s values. Tallow in tins also showed a. slight improvement. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., offered a largo catalogue of sheepskins and hides to a large bench of buyers, who competed keenly for nil classes. Prices for dry sheepskins wero slightly better, but salted skins did 110U reahso the firm's ideas of values. _ Hides were eagerly competed for nt prices on a pai with last sale, and two lines in the catalo°ue of heavy stout ox realised 12Jd. to 12id. Tallow was slightly better, and wo 'disposed of practically the wliolo catalogue. , The rango of prices was as under:— 'Sheepskins.—Halfbred, (id. to id.; fine crossbred, i\A. to sjd.; medium coarse crossbred SJd. to 5d.; short to half-wools. 2W to 4}d.; dead and damaged crossbred, lid. to 3|d.; inferior and badly damaged, Id. to 2id.; pelts, id. to 2Sd. ; damp, salted, and green 2s. 4d. to bs. lid. each; pelts, salted, Is. 7d.; lambs, salted, Is. sd. to 2s. Id. each Hides.—Ox heavy, 591b. and over, 6d. to 12! d.; ox, medium, 501b. to 5811)., OM. to 9Jd.; ox, light 191b., and under, od. oow medium, 421b. to 541b., GuV to cow, light, 121b. and under Gd. to iM-i •cut, slippy, and inferior, Id.to ' rm». stag, Id. to 4Jd.; yearlings, 111b. to 321).. Id. to BJd.; calf, superior up if) 101b., 7UI. to 12Jd.; c n,f . medium to good, fid. to lljd.; calf, damaged, Id. to 7|<l. Tallow.—ln casks, 15s. to 265.; m tins, etc., 10s. to 265. Gd. Sundries—Horns 9d. , _ Messrs. A. H. Turnbull and Co. report: We have received a cablegram from Messrs. W. Weddell and Co., as follows:—"Tallow market unchanged; market quiet but steady. Mutton, tallow, first grade 58s. Gd.;-. mixed tallow, good colour, 5Gs.. 585.; fair colour, oOs., 525.; mixed tallow, dull 165.; gut tallow, 405., 125." ■