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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 7 December 1914, Page 2

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NEW PLYMOUTH HIDE, SKIN, WOOL AND TALLOW SALES.

L. A. Nolan and Co. report as follows: )ur sale for this month of the above ventuated in our Gill street store on Tuesday last, the 24th inst. We offered , rather larger all-round catalogue than lsual. Included also were 78 bales new season's clip of wool. Competition was :een and well sustained throughout. Wool offered realised full market rates. 3oarse and medium showed a rise of juite l%d to l%a on best prices obtained last year. Fine wools in some instances showed same rise. In the case }f 3hort Btaple fine wools, such as Down, last season's prices were fully maintained, Mjfhieh was not expected. Sheepskins maintained recent high levels, B%d, B%d, 9d, being the order of the day for butchers' lines of good stuff, two separate line 3 making the latter price. Hides and calfskins realised last month's rates, Special lines of good ox realised up to 9gd and lOd, best calves made Is Id, specials to la 2d per lb. Tallow sold at about last months' rates for similar quality. We quote:—• Wool bales.—Down wool, 10y 2 d. fine crossbred lOd, medium crossbred 9%d to lOd; coarse, '9y 4 d, l)'/ 2 d, medium logstained !>y 4 d, Lincoln rams 9d. pieces and crutcliings 7d, locks and pieces 6%d. .We sold one bale at 9d, six at » l / 4 d, eleven at OV 2 d, ten at 9%d, thirty-two at lOd, one at 10$ d; Bag wool.—Fine wool 9d, medium 9d, coarse B%d, logstained B%d, dead 7</ 2 d, Mack Bd, cotted Bd, lambs B%d, locks 4d, piece and crutchings fiVkd. Sheepskins.—Fine crossbred 8y 4 d, B%d, fld, medium, Bd, 8y 2 d, 9d, coarse Bd, 8y 4 d, pelts 3d, 4d, 4%d, Oy 4 d. Dry salted, fine 7d, medium 7%d, lambs inferior, &y 4 d, black 5V 2 d, dead 3d, damaged 2d, 6'/ 2 d, 7d, 7%d. Damp pelts, Is 2d, 2s 2d, woolly 6s 4d, 8s Bd, 9s 7d, 9s lOd; salted lambs Is 9d, la 10s, 2s 7d, pelts, 3d, Is, Is Id, Is sd, Is 6d, Is Bd, 2s Id, hoggets 5s lild, woolly 5s lOd, <ss 4d, 7s 6d, 9s, settlers 2s 'fid, 4s Cd, 5s lid, damaged 4s. > Hides.—Ox: Butchers' light By s d, medium B%d, «%d, «y 2 d, heavy 9d, stout 9Jd lOd. Cow, light B|d, B|d, BJd, medium B%d, B%d, B%d, heavy 8y 2 d, B%d, B%d, cut Bd, Sy 4 d; settlers' OX medium B%d, B%d'; cows, light B%d B%d, medium 8 3 / 4 d, heavy B%d, cut 8y 8 d slippy 7%d 7%d, bulls, heavy sd, 5%d medium 53d, liglit 53d, cut 4Jd, slippy 4d, 4%d. Horses sound lis fid, cut 8: inferior 6s (is, 7s. Calfskins: Spec•l medium Is 2d, firsts medium Is Id, heavy Is Id, light ll'/ad, seconds medium 12% d, light 10% d, heavy ll%d, small dirty ,Bd, slippy 7Jd, firsts cut 10|d 10% d, heavy 8 7 / B d, dry Is "Cd each, yearlings light Od, medium 9d. Tallow.—Casks 20s 9d, 21s, 225, tins 16s 6d, 18s 3d, 18b 9d, 21s. Sundries. —Mohair, 7Ad per lb; cowtails Is 6£d per dozen, goatskins, Is 0d each. > NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO., LTD. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co., Ltd., report as follows: — On Tuesday, December 1, we held our usual fortnightly sale in our Strat 7 ford yards, when there was a fair yarding, bidding was spirited, prices were good and most lines were disposed of at very full values, particularly store cows: Forward cows, £0 12s to €7 16s; fat cows, £8 2s to £8 8s; store cows, small and lean, £4 to £4 8s; medium, £5 2s to £5 13s; fair quality, £o 15s to £6 i sb; 15 months heifers, 42s for small, 44s for medium to '6os for good; bulls, yearlings, from £3 to £5 7s Cd; tinners, up to £ 10 17s 6d. We had a large entry in our dairy yards, bidding was good and a clearance of most lines was effected at advanced values. Good heifers, showing quality made from £7 to £lO 15s; for smaller stuff, £4 15s to £6 10s; heifers, calved, from £5 to £8 2s (id; cows, up to £S 10s.

During the week we have disposed of a fair amount of stock privately:— Store cows, small, £4 15s; medium, £5 8s; good, up to £(!; shorn store ewes, 15s 3d to 15s 6d; forward ewes, 16s to 10a 9d; two-tooth wethers, 15s 6d to 16a; mixed two-tootli ewes and wethers 15s 9d; 15 months heifers, 44s 6d to 50s.