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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3496, 26 May 1920, Page 3

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o HIDE PBHSES DECLINE. At the Welling!on bide sales hold on Friday there was a weaker demand for all sorts except ox hides. Cow hides were down Id to Lid, kips and yearlings Id to "lid, calfskins lid to 7 per lb down according to Levin and Co. Murray, Roberts and Go. report firmer tone for ox, lower tendency for cows, yearlings, kips, and calf "and inferior and damaged lots of the better description suffered severely.’- Abraham and Williams report: Prices for hides and calf showed a slight recovery and prices should prove satisfactory to clients. The N.Z. L. and M. Co., Lid., and the N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. Distributing Co., also report on similar lines. Prices realised were as follow: —Hides, ox, heavy, 17Id to 24-id, o-x medium 17d to 23d, ox light Ki 13d to IS' 5-Bd., ox cut and slippy Id ;o 23d, cow heavy 1.3 d to I9d, cow medium 15” d to ISd, cow cut and slippy Sid to 20 1-Sd, yearling j and kip 14id to 22id, yearling and kip cut and slippy 4d to 20 ! ’d, calf sound ISd tc 40 1-sd, calf cut and slippy 10-id to 32:;(I, bull stag Sid to 14Jd, horse 7s to 27s (id. Sundries, rabbitskins 20d. horsehair 24d, tails 15d to 24|d. PALMERSTON SALE. ’ Dalgoty and Co. report on their usual Palmerston sale on Thursday: On account of rough weather only a small yarding came before a poor attendance of buyers. Small lambs 11s 6d. empty ewes. 10s, 15s (id to 17s, forward ewes 225.