SALE OF SHEEPSKINS.
MARKED DROP IN PRICES, COMPARISON WITH COMMANDEER VALUES. i| • ' By Telegraph.—Press Ausclttlon. .
Christchurch, L&it Night, The first auction sale of sheep-skial since February, 1917, when the Govern* nieiit commandeered sheepsldns, wai hold to-day, the catalogue totalling 20,034 skins. In consequence of the heavy decline in wool values at Monday's gale, and aUo of the fact that there tytd been a big . drop in the Australian valne of sheep* • skins, it was fully expected that there would be a substantial drop Irom com* 1 mandeer values, but even taking then* facts into consideration the prices ob«. tained to-day were, generally speaking, below the expectations of sellers. How* ever, more than three-fourths of the akins offered wore sold. The following comparative range ot prices for abbatoir and otiter salted skins, estimated at per pound, gives u indication of the extent of tlw decline in prices to-day:— ' « 191". 1911, d. a Super merino 12% 9 Faulty merino 10K T Sound halfliredA 14 faulty liallbreda XI 8 Sbund three-tiilarter breds .. 13K Stir Faulty three-quarter breds .. 19.% * Sound crossbreds U% Faulty crossbreds * 10 Pelts <H S Faulty pelts .4 1 '
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1920, Page 5
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188SALE OF SHEEPSKINS. Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1920, Page 5
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