HIDES AND SKIN SALE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 333, 14 January 1937, Page 6

HIDES AND SKIN SALE.

Monthly Offering At Auction Yesterday.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co., Stratford branch, reports that a sharp advance in prices was experienced in all consignments offered at the sale yesterday. An attractive catalogue was submitted to a bench of nine buyers, and competition was keen. The following prices were obtained:— Baled Wool.—Crossbred locks and pieces, 7Sd per lib; crossbred fleece, coarse and cotted, 13Jd per lb; crossbred fleece, medium, 14d, 14Jd, 14J-1 per- lb; crossbred fleece, fine, 14Jd per lb; crossbred hoggets’ 15d per lb; crossbred lambs’, 15d per lb; Southdown, 18d per lb. Binned -Wool.—Crossbred fleece, fine, 16Jd per lb; crossbred fleece, medium to coarse and cotted, IDld, IOJd, 12Jd, 12Jd, 13Jd per lb; crossbred lambs’ up to 14d per lb; crossbred fleece, dead mixed, IOJd per lb; crossbred crutchings, biddi, IOJd per lb; crossbred pieces, 7d, 81d per lb; crossbred locks and pieces, GJd per lb; black wool, HJd per lb. Sheepskins (dry). Crossbred, dead, sound, 124 d per lb; crossbred hoggets’, torn and damaged, 12Jd per lb; do., shorn, 12d per lb; crossbred hoggets’, sound, 14Jd per lb; crossbred i/i woolled, sound, 13d per lb; crossbred 3/fuil woolled, 12Jd to 14Sd per lb; crossbred lambs’, lid to 14Sd per lb; crossbred pelts, from Gild to 9Jd per lb. Sheepskins (salted). Crossbred pelts, 4/-, 4/6, 5/5 each; crossbred 3/3 full woolled, 8/-, 11/-, 11/9 each; crossbred lambs’, 4/7, 4/9 each. Calfskins.—Slipy, lid. 12 4-8 d per lb; heavy, 12d per lb; cuts, 13 4-8 d per lb; seconds, sound, 14d per lb; firsts, sound, 15 5-8 d per lb; light, sound, 15 ’ 4-8 d per lb. Yearlings.—Sound, 11 4’-8d per lb. Kip.—Cut, 5 7-8 d per lb; sound, 6 7-Bd, 7 3-Bd, 7 5-Bd, 8 2-8 d per lb. Cowhides.—Cut, 5 7-8 d to 7 2-8 d per lb; light sound, 7 l-Bd, 7 4-Bd, 8 2-8 d per lb; medium sound, 8 2-Bd, 8 3-8 d per lb. Bullhides.—Sound, 4 3-Bd, 4 7-8 d per lb. Tallow.—ln drums, 24/- to 25/- per cwt.; in tins, 20/- per cwt. Horsehair. —Combings, 9d per lb; coloured hair, mixed, 12d per lb; mane, lOd per lb; tail, 201 d per lb; cowtail hair, 9Jd per lb.