COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 193, 5 August 1908, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

HIDE AND SKIN JREi'OKT. Dalgety & f'o., Ltd., liold their fort-1 nightly sale of wool, skin, hides and tallow on Friday, 31st .hily, a lengthy catalogue of ail classes being submitted t,o a good attendance of buyers. The d;mand for all classes was about on a par with last, sales, excepting for salted skins, for which an easier tone prevailed. We quote as follows:-Wool.—t'ross-brcd, 4'/id to u'/d pellb.; crntchings, 3d to 3%d; inferior, l ; !',d to 2%d. Sheepskins.-full-woollod cross-bred, 4'/..1 to ,»1: inferior. .'S'/,d to 3%d; eros:;brod dead and broken, 2Mid to 4.1; cross, bred short, 2%d l " :f %' ! ; cross-bred, seedy. 3d; cross-bred half-wools, 4d; cross-bred hoggels, 4'/ 4 d; cross-bred lambs, .")'/,(!: cross-bred lambs, shorn, 3>/,d: hall-bred, 3d to 5%d; half-bred short. 3d to 4'/,d; cross-bred pelts. 2'/,d;

cross-bred, damp, 2s Id to 3« "<l; <'l'°'sbred, (lump broken, Is 7d; cross-lnvd salted. 2s Hid to 3s Oil; inferior and broken, Is 2d to Is oil; salted lain!,?. ■>s ;iil to 2s lid; inferior, Is sd. Hides.—Ox: 71 to 82 His. 5%d to (i'/„d; 54 to 1(1 lbs., 3d to .-)% d; 52 lo 53 lbs., 4'/,d. Cows: lill to (i.) lbs., 4d to i%A ■ per lb.: 4U to 52 lbs., 3%d to 4 , /, d: : J .ii :to 44 lbs.. 3 r / B d to 4'/ l d; slippy, 3d. Steer: 31 lbs., 3%d. Calf: 5 to 7 lbs.. . 5%d to o'/ 2 d; 14 lbs., 3%d per lb.