HIDE MARKET DULL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 901, 19 February 1930, Page 10

HIDE MARKET DULL

AUCKLAND AUCTIONS Sheepskins sold at late rates at the fortnightly hide and skin auctions held by the Auckland Woolbrokers’ Association yesterday afternoon Hides met with a dull sale and sold on the lowest levels for many years. Prices ranged as follow: Cow Hides.—Best grade, light and medium, 5(,d to 5Sd a lb; heavy, s*d to sgd; second grade, light, sgd to 53drough and slippy, 3d to 4d, ox. best grade, ® to 6Jd: cut, 5d to 5Jd; kips best, 5Jd to 6d; second grade, 5d to 51dbeS ,r 7 , i< ? to 8d: se cond grade, 6d to 63d, calf skins, heavy, 73d to Bdmedium 10 id to lid; light, l oi d to qil ;„Tea an u meaty ' 9d to 9 * a : small, 9£d to lOd; slippy, 7d to 7£d. fun wo P on^ lnS -~i 3rled ' three-quarter to 7id m ? dium to fl ne crossbred, to B|d a lb; coarse, 7d to 7Addamaged, 41d to o? 5: dama &ed and broken, 3d to ™iS te , d sheep skins, quarter to halfwoolled, large, 3s 3d to 3s 8d eachlight to medium, 3s lOd to 3s: bare to quarter woolled, large, 2s 4d to 9d light, is 6d to is 8d; cut, blood-stained and sweated, is to is 6d. Lamb skins extra large, 3s to 3s 3d each; medium is i a od Se to ?s 6 3d t 0 I" 9<5: HSht and smalh V,,w “• ?' shorn ’ !0d to Is 3d. ’ n barrels, good mixed, 26s i a f C ' yt ' : sec °nd grade, 25s to and Sut-stained, 20s ,>K_. f, tins good mixed, 25s 6d to best T, u!i r ; 2 ? s |°, 24s G(J : horsehair, to li ls Sd a ]b; mixed, Is 4d to ls 6d short and mane, Sd to 10dbones, clean and dry, £5.15s a ton '