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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 232, 19 February 1913, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

' WOOL,. HIDE. SHEEPSKIN AXD TALLOW SALES. L. A. NOLAN & CO/8 REPORT. We held our four-weekly sale on Tuesday., February 11. We submitted about our usual catalogue to a representative body of buyers. Hides were very keenly competed for and sold at high prices again. Tlie average obtained works out at about J / 4 d per lb more all round than last month. Heavy cows', in ordinary condition, made 9%d. medium weight stout ox up to 10% d per lb. Good heavy calfskins made 10% d, light weights fi'/W.' light bulls' up to 7d, heavy to 6%d. The main feature of the sale was, however, the keen competition for lambs' wool. About half of our wool catalogue was tlie latter. We sold one bale at 10'/ 4 d, four at 10d, six at Oy>d, and (ho balance at fid. Fleece realised as high as 9%d from 8 3 / 4 d. Tallow showed a sharp rise, realising from 27s 3d to 27s i)d per cwt. for casks. We <]i;ote: Hides—Ox. medium stout 10% d, light ordinary !)'/ 4 d. medium O%tL cut !)%d; cow. heavv H ; ;/ S d. medium flftl to 9 J /id, light B%d' to ltd. cut 7%ejW 8y 4 d, settlers' cow 7>/ s d to Bd, dry TO, cut 7y 4 d; bulls', light (i%d to 7d, medium Gy.d to 6%d, heavy ti'/ 4 d to C>%d. workers' 5y 3 d to fid, cut and slippy 4y,d. yearling 7 ] /,d to 7y..d. cut fid; calf, heavy 10% d, light fl'/ 2 d. cut S%i!. slippy 7%d; horses', cut 3u~6d.

Sheepskins—Salted lambs 3s, 3s Id, 3s 2d, 3s 3d, 3s Cd, shorn lambs 2s fid, pelts 2s 4d, 2s Gd, 2s fid, 2s lid, 3s 2d, damaged Is, Is 3d. Is |)d, drv lambs 2s fid, 2s Bd, 3s, 3s 7d. 3s Sd, pelts Is sd, Is fid, 2s Bd, 3s 3d, damaged 3d. lid, Is fid, 2s 2d, woolly 4s 6d. ss, 5s 7d, 6a lOd, 7s Gd. Tallow—Casks, medium 27s 3d, best 27s fid; tins. 23s 3d to 25s 3d. Wool—Bales, lambs fli/Jd, fiy.d. lOd. I 0y t d. seedy G 1 / 2 d and !)d, fleece, bright oyjd, 9%d. dingy B%d to 9d, mixed bales lamb and fleece fiy 4 d to <H /2 d, lamb pieces BVid; bags, lambs B%d to 9</.d, scedv Cd. fii/,d, fi"/,d. fleece By,d. B'/ 2 d. B%d, fid. black 7V|il. ]iieces 3y,d to o'/.d. crutchings 3y,d to 4 s /,d.

Sundries—Oowtails Is 7d per doz.. Horsetails llil each, horsehair Is 7%d lb. Our next sale will be held on Tuesday. March 11.