Wellington Wool and Sales.

Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1904, Page 2

Wellington Wool and Sales.

Messrs Levin & Go’s Report. We offered to-day 75 bales of wool, 3250 skins, 885 hides and a quantitj-v of tallow. Orutohings showed a material fall on recent quotations, the fall from the top prices ruling a month ago to to-day’s prices being one penny per lb. Superior crutehiugs to-day realised s£d to sfd, medium 5d to 6fd, inferior to medium 4d to 4fd. Skins were steady at late rates, but the damp condition in which the wool is at this time of the year makes buyers chary of bidding out the price they willingly give for thoroughly dry skins. We quote— Merinos, 6Jd to 7d ; halfbreds, 6Jd to 7d ; fine crossbreds, 6Jd to 7d coarse, Gid to Gfd ; short wools, 5Jd to Gd ; dead, 4d to 4|d; butchers’ green, 5s to 5s 8d each. Hides.—The offerings to-day comprised too large a proportion of hides badly flayed and in poor condition, and prices for these ruled irregular. For hides in good condition prices were somewhat in buyers’ favour. Light cows, IBs to 14s Gd; medium, 15s to 16?; heavy, 17s 3d ; extra heavy up to 20s. Light ox, 20s; medium, 28s to 245; heavy to 265. Tallow. Rough fat 14s 9d I in tins, 15s 9d ; casks, 18s Sd. Wellington, sth Ang., 1904.