DROP IN SHEEPSKINS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 72, 21 September 1935, Page 16

DROP IN SHEEPSKINS

PRICES AT LOCAL SALE

At the fortnightly sale of hides'and skins held by Wellington woolbrokers yesterday attractive catalogues were offered to the usual attendance of buyers. .. . . .

Sheepskins were from Jd to Id a lb easier as compared with the last Wellington sale, and values are now back to. those ruling a month ago. The catalogue comprised the usual abattoir lines and a large number of country butchers' and farmers' lots. Excepting for a few lots prices advanced for all grades of hides, compared with last sale.

; Calfskins, were higher by id to 2Jd and. yearling from Jd for heavies "to 13d for light, weights. Cow hides advanced by 3-8 dto id, and light ox were 3-Bd'medium and heavy : ',d above last sale; -extra heavy ox were on a par \vith late rates. Tallow was firm.

The range,of prices is as follows:— Dry,sheepskins: Halfbred, 8d to 9Jd a lb; fine crossbred, 5Jd to BJid; medium, 6d to BJd; coarse, 4ld to 8d; half wools, 4d to 8d;- quarter wools, 3^d to 6£d; pelts, 2Jd to 4£d. Salted skins: Full wools, 5s 9d each. Hides: Ox, 331b to 441b 4 3-8 dto 5 3-8 d a lb, 451b to 521b 3 5-8 dto 5 7-Bd, 531b to 591b 3d to 6Jd, 601b to 691b 4i|d to 7d. 701b and over 4d to 7!d; cow, 331b to 391b, 33d to 5 5-Bd, 401b to 481b A\d to 53d, 491b and over 4Jd to 6 l-8d; kip. 251b to 321b 4^d to 53d, 171b to 241b 4!d to 7d: yearling, 111b to 161b 3£d to"8Jd; calf, 91b to 101b 3d to Bid, 61b to" 81b 7-Jd to 123 d, lib to 51b 10,fd to 12 3-Bd. Tallow: In casks, etc., 26s to 28s. 6d a cwt; in tins, 19s 6d to 22s 6d. Sundries: Horse hair, 19gd to 203 d a lb.

Black grapes from California, which arrived by the Makura, were selling at the Wellington markets yesterday at 22s for a 341b case. The grapes were sawdust packed and appeared to be in good condition. They are retailing at from lOd to Is 4d per lb, according to description.