COMMERCIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 2 August 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

• STOCK REPORT. DALGETY AND COY., LTD. FEILDING SALE. We have to 'report having cur usual weekly stock sale at Pending on Friday, 30th inst., when we offered a. good yarding of sheep to a large; attendance cl' the public. Quotations; 2 teeth ewes 21/9. 2, 4 and >3 tooth owes in lamb 25/2. Fat ewes 23/ to 29/ Store wethers 2S/9. Cull hoggets 12/ to 13/6. Medium hoggets 18/2. .'•-year o'Ws hi lamb 19/5 Empty ewes, poor condition 13/9. IS-mcnlhs Jersey cross steers, £3 s/. Store cows, £3 13/. Sj ingiing hiofers, £4 5/. HIDE AND SKIN REPORT, We held the third of our series of special crufcchings sates to-day, together with our usual monthly sale of wool, skins and hides. We offered a large catalogue of all classes to a big attendance of buyers; competition was very keen for all clcjah lines of crutch--1 ings, IV’ee of seed, but seedy or carbonising lines showed a considerable ■ decline in sympathy with cable advices from London and other markets. Best sheepskins were about on a par with last sale’s rates, while short and inferior were somewhat lower. Hides and tallow maintained last sale’s rates.

Crutchings.—Med. to good 12d to 12u { cl, shorter an ( ] heavy condition lines 10 Id to 112 d, seedy 71d to 81d,very inferior and seedy to 61d; no super lines catalogued.

Fleece.—Rough and inferior 12d to 12Id, lambs 1/, de ; ad wool Sid to Hid, locks and pieces 6d to 6:id, pieces and bellies Sd to 91d, black wool 10id. Sheepskins.—Full wool coarse, best lines lOld to lid, ditto medium and line 10:;d to lid, inferior and damaged Sid to 9d, half-wools, 8d to Sid, ditto (broken ami damaged) 6d to 61d, lambs lOld, shorn and and shorn 61 d to Sid, dead hoggets 8d to Sid, ditto, damaged and inf. 6d to 61d, pelts 3d ot 31d, ditto, torn and damaged lid to 2ld, butchers, damp and salted, at med. 8/ to 8/3, other lots 6/6, 7/ 7/6 to 7/10, lambs 4/ to 5/9. Hides.—Cows, best lines 9 3-Sd farmers’ lines 8 1-Sd to Si,'d, ox, medium to heavy 9 5-8 d to 10id, light 9d to 9 1-8 ditto, cut and slippy 7!, ! d to 9cl, yearlings 8d to Sid, ditto, cut and damaged 4ld to 6ld, bulls to 5 1-Sd, lirrse hides to 8/3 each calfskins, sound 91d, cut and slippy, from 5d to Bd. Tallow. —In tins, 22/6. Horsehair. —1/3 per lb. Owing to a number of our clients being urouble to get their crutchings in time for to-day’s sale, owing to the "father we have decided to hold a fuHUor ptmcial crutchings sale on Thursday. 27th August.