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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8125, 27 April 1906, Page 6

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# MASTERTON WOOL, SKIN, AND HIDE SALE. Levin aud Co., Ltd., report as follows on their Masteiton wool, skin and hide sale: We offered on Wednesday, 40 bales wool, 2.500 shoepakins, 110 hides, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. There wa9 a good attendance of buyers, and bidding for wool and skins was very keen and high prices were obtained, but the selection of bides offered was a poor and badly-saved lot. Some crutchings were catalogued, which realised up to 7J£d per lb„ We quote—Wool: Medium crossbred fleeoe 9>£d to clotted and inferior B><£d"to 9,V£d, lambs wool 9d to lOd, crutchings 6d to pieces and beliies 7d to 7%d, locks 4d to Skins: .Advanced on last sale prices, good croßsbreds 9d to dead skins 7d shorn woofs 9d to 9>gd, lamb skins 9d to 9%d, pelts, bare, 2s 5d each, woolly skins, green, 6s Id. Hides; Medium ox 20s to 235, interior ox 16s to 19s, mediam -cow 17s to 225, inferior 10s to 17e, calf skins 2s to 6s. Tallow: In tins 17s 3d cwt, casks 18s per cwt. Horsehair, Is 9d per lb. Cow tails B}4d. The next sale is fixed for June 6~th, 1906.

MARKET REPORT. (Speoial to Age). The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., Wellington, report as follows: Maize 4s 9i per bushel. Wheat 3s 7d to 3s 8d per bushel. Oats, prime feed, 2e Gd to 2h 7d per bus r hel. Barley, feed 3s 3d, Capo eeed 3s 6d. Rice meal £4 las per ton. Pollard £6 to £6 5s per ton. Cuoksfoot 4d to 5%d per lb. Cowgrass, colonial 755, per owt. Prime oaten sheaf chaff £4 2s Gd to £4 10s per ton. Straw 45s per ton. Potatoes, Up-to-Dates, Derwents and Brown Rivers, £lO. Onions, £5 to £7. Butter separator, BV£d to 3d. Eggs, fresh, Is lOd per dozen. Cheese best factory mediums 6d, loaf G>£d. Honey 4d to 4>£d per lb. Baoon, sides 6J/2CI, rolls 7%d, hams, 6%d to 7d. Dressed pork, 60's to 90's, 4)£d. Apples, cookeis, 4s 6d per case, dessert ss. Pears, dessert 5s 6d, ooobera, 4s per case. Quinces

Id per lb. Tomatoes 2s 9d per half case. Cabbage and c&ulillovvers 2s 6d per sack. Carrots, table, £3 per ton. Swedes, £2 10s per ton. Marrows 4s per cwt. Pumpkins 4s per owt. Poultry—Table rocstera 4s, cockerels 5s for cood birds, table liens 2s Gd to 3s, ducks 3s Gd to 4s 6s, all at per pair. Dressed poultry, 7d per lb.