Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 April 1914, Page 3

Commercial.

HIDE AND SEIN REPORT

Wellington, April 24

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report: usual good attendance of buyers. At our usual sale _to-day we offered a fair-sized catalogue to tlie usual good attendance o fbuyers. Competition was fairly keen for all lots offered; wool and sheepskins sold on a par with last sale rates, while hides showed a decline of $d per lb in sympathy with other markets. « "VVool.—Rough crossbred 8d to Bfd, seedy and inferior 7d to 7|d, lambs B£d to 9d, seedy inferior 7d to 7jd, crutchings 7d to 7sd, locks and pieces 5Jd to 6d, dead 7Jd to Bgd, Jblack 7d. . v Sheepskins. — Crossbred full wool, coarse, 8d to Bid; medium to fine, Bfd; hoggets, 7}d to 8d; lambs, 7|d to B|a; half-wool, 7sd, 7|d to 8d; quarter-wool, 7Jd to 7sd; pelts, 6|d to 7jd; seedy, 4sd to sd; dead, sfd to 7sd; crossbred damaged and inferior, sjd to 6|d; pelts and short wool, badly damaged, 2£d to 4d. Butchers' salted and green, at each —Best lines of half-wools, ss, 5s 2dj 5b 3d to 5s 8d; shorts and'quarter-wools, 3s 7d, 4a, 4s 3d to 4s 9d; woolly lambs, 4s to 5s 7dj short and shorn, 2s Id, 3s 23 to4s 2d; pelts, 2s to 2s 6d. , Hides.—Light ox, 8d to B|d; cows, best lines, Sid; rough and 7|d to 7£d; cut and slippy, 6£d to 7fd; yearlings, B*d to 9id; cut and damaged 6Jd to 7sd; W1 hides, 6d: horsehides, to 9s each. Calfskins.—llfd to I2|d; cut and slippy, 6sd to Bfd; dry, Is each. Sundries.—Tallow, in tins, 23s Cd; casks, 26s 9d; rough fat,"lss; Horsehair, Is 6d to Is 7d: tails, Is 6d per dozen.