HIDE AND SKIN VALUES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 247, 9 January 1928, Page 10

HIDE AND SKIN VALUES

WELLINGTON SALE Under date January 6, Levin and Co., Wellington, report as follows on the usual fortnightly sale of hides, skins, and tallow held there that day:— Sheepskins. —Dry, par to *d higher; salted, firm at late rates. Brices ranged: Half bred, 12*d to 15id a lb; fine crossbred, 13Jd to 15d; medium coarse crossbred, lljd to 14d; short to half wools, 9d to 12Jd; lambs’, 9d to 14jd; dead and damaged crossbred, 7Jd to 12Jd; inferior and badly damaged, 2d to lOd; pelts, 7d to 101 d; damp, salted, and green, 6s 6d to 11s 8d; pelts, salted, Is 6d to 4s 6d’ lambs’, salted, 2s to 4s ~3d. Hides.— Heavies, id to Id higher; medium and light, lid higher; kip, lid to 2d higher; yearling, lid higher; calf, on a par. Prices ranged: Ox, extra heavy, 701 b and over 12d to 12gd, 591 b to 691 b llgd to 12|d; ox, medium, 531 b to 581 b, llgd to 12|d; ox, light, 451 b to 521 b, 113 d to 12Jd; cut, slippy and inferior, 4d to 123 d; cow, heavy, 531 b and over, llgd to 123 d; cow, medium, 4olb to 521 b, 12d to 14d; cow, light, 331 b to 441 b, 103 d to 13id; cut, slippy, and inferior, 6d to 103 d: bull stag, 4Jd to Bid;. yearlings, 111 b to 161 b 12id to 14d, 171 b to 321 b 9Jd to 14Jd; calf, medium, good, up to 101 b, 13d to 16id; calf, damaged, up to 101 b, 3d to 14d. Tallow.—Unchanged. In casks, 21s to 235; in tins ,etc., 18s to 245. Sundries.—Horsehair, 24id to 2od; cow tails, 18d to 2ld.