Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 June 1915, Page 3

Commercial

HliDiE AMD SKIN REiPORT. j ©algety and 00. Ltd. report:— W»held our usual fortnightly saTo of skins, hides and tallow on Friday afternoon, when we offered a gootl catalogue to the usual. attendance of buyers. All. lines were keenly competed for, prices for Skins and tallow being on a par with those ruling a't last sale. All descriptions of hides ware also very firm, stout ox and cow celling at slightly advanced prices:— Sheepskins.—Fine crosSured Hid to 113 d; medium and coarse crossbred lid to Hid ; short to haW wools 6Jd to 10d ; dead and damaged crossbred BJd to lUd ; inferior and badly damaged 4id to 7id; lambs 10d to Hid; damp, salted and green 3s 8d to 10s 10d; pelts 3d to 4^l; laun'bs, salted 7e Bd. 'flidee.—Ox, heavy, 601bs up 10|d to lid; ox, medium 50 to 59, lOid to ±u3cl; ox, light 49 and under, 8d to lOJd; cow. heavy oolbs and over 9d to 9}a; cosv, medium 42 to c>4 BJd to Qgd ; cut. slippy and inferior 8d 'to 9d; 'bull, stag. s£d to 9d; yearlings 16lbs up to 241'bs) 71d to 9|d; ,calf, superior (up to l(51bs) 10d to lOJd; medium to good 9Jd to IOd ; calf, damaged 4d to BJd. Sundries.—Opossum skins Iβ to Is 3d; honsehair Is 3d to Is 69; cow tails Is 6d; ekin pieces 3d.