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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8284, 12 November 1906, Page 3

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WELLINGTON WOOL AN© SKINS SALES. ' Messrs Levia and Company Lim Ited, report aa follows regarding Thursday's sale:—We offered a small catalogue of wool, 2,000 flkins, 250 hides, and a quantity ,of tsjilow and horsehair. VVoal-Everything la being helrl for the large smle on November 16th. We quote: -Coarse crossbred, 7d to inferior and longstained, 6d to 6%d; pieces and bellies, 4>£d to s><jd. Hkius—Mar feet steady—prices show no chause. We quote: Meiinos, to fine crossbred, to 9d; coarse crossbred, 7%d to B%d; dead skins, 6}£d to dnad hogget*., 6}£d 10 short wools, *6tl to lambs skins, '7d to 7%d; woolly green skins, 6s to 8s Bdj green lamfca shins, Is <sd to 2s, Tallow: Strong oompefcifcio'i. Parcels in shipping order £26 sa; tinp, £lB to £2l; tough fat, £ls. Horse hair—la 4d to Is <3l per lb; Horua ( —7s to 20a per IIJO. Bides—Good demand a- last: sale prices. Wei quote: Ox hide*, extra heavy, 7d : to 7%d; ox hides, 701bs and over, to 7d; ox hides v SOlbs to 761rb, rto '6% A; cow hides, 501 ha to j-601fcs, 6d to 6%d; cow hides, 401ba to 50lbs. Gd'to 6%d; oalfskins, best, o B}£d; slippy, 3d to 4}£d; cue, sV£d to 6d; cut and slippy hidee, to 5%d; stag hides, to sd; bull bid«ss 3>£rl to 4%d. The next sale will b« held on Friday, 23rd November, 1906. Messrs Dalgety and Compnny Limited, report as follows.The attendance of buyers was fair, and competition wa9 animated. Sheep skins—Prices superior lots showed an advance,of as compared with priceSv last sale, but in feriot and damaged sorts were slightly below a / fortnight ago. We quote: Half breds to 9%;-fine cross breds, B%d to 9d; medium .oross- • breds, BJ<d to B>^d: course cro3Sbreds, 7%d to 8d; merino shortß, 7%d to B*>£d; lambs to 6d; dead and damaged, to 7d; batcher's green skios, 8s to 8s 9d; green lambs, Is 8d; pelts, Is 8d to 28; rabbit skins, Is per lb. lloarsehair, Is per lb. 'Hides—-There were very few lines of prime quality offering. The market was slightly easier, except for prime calfskins, whinh showed au advance-of %d to %d per, lb. For one nice line of these we obtained as high as B%d. We qqote: Prime ox, sf): to" 65 lbs, 6Jjjd; medium, 45 to 55lbs, 5%d to 6}£d; cows; medium, 45 to 50 lbs, to 6%d; light, 39 to 51ba, to 6d; pritue: calf; to 8% fly Tallow—ln tins, 19a 9d to 20s 6d per owr. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Com pan y; Limited, reports:—We submitted, a fair sized catalogue of sheepskins add hides. All wool oomiug forward is being held for first sale of the season, 16th inst Bidding was .spirited and prices on a level of last sale. We. .quote: —' Sheepskins Merino (only inferior skins offered which sold at 6d); fine urqsabred, B%d' to 9d; coarse crossbred, 8d to dead skins, 6d to inferior ani broken, 5d to s.md, pelts, to 7J£d; green skins, .best 8s to 8s lOd;; medium, 63' 9d to 7s 9d; light and Inferior, 3s 6d to '6s 6d; peltß, Is 9d to 2* Id; lambs. Is 9d to la lOd. Hides:—No prime offered. Medium , ox, 6d to 6 J^d: . medium onw, 6d to 6%d; light ox and cow, 5%d to 63; slippy and oat hides, 5d to 5%d; beat oalf, to B%d; medium, 6d to6%d: damaged and inferior, 4d to 4)£d. Tallow—ln boxes and tins, inferior,- 18s to 218; roogh fat, 17s 6d to 18s. WEEKLY MAJKET REPORT. (Special to the "Age.") The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Limited, Wellington, report as follows: —Maize, 3s lOd per basbel; wheat, 3s lid, filrm; *oats, prime feed, 2s 9d, feed, 2a 7d; barley feed, 3a 3dV gCape seed, 3s 6d ; linseed, whole, £ls per ton; rice meal, £5 per ton ; pollard, £5 5s :o £5 10a per ton; bran, £4 10s to £4 15a per ton; oooksfoot, to 4d per lb; prime oaten sheaf chaff, £4: 5s ex, wharf; Potatoes: Prime Australian, £l2; LooalsV £l3; to £l3 !.10d market very firm; Seed Potatoes:; Up-to-dates, £l7 10s; Tasrnanian Per wentß, £l3; Onions, Japanese, 15s 6d per casei batter, separator, dairy pats, supplies short; eggs, fresh, lp, Id, supplies [abort; baoon aides, hams and rolls, 8d; porkers, 60's to 100's, 5d per, lbs, keen demand; oabbae, 2s; oaaliflower, 7s per sackasparagus, 6d per bundle; rhubarb, 6s per dozen; green peas, lOd, per peck; parsnics, 5s 6d per neck; carrots, table, £3; swedes, £3, wanted; Poultry: Table roosters, 5a 6d; cockerels, 5b to 6s; table hens, 4s 6d to ss; docks, 6s 6d to 7s, all at per pair, turkeys, gobblers, lOdjhena, Bd, live wegbt. Dressed poultry rooßters, 8d; hens, 6d; turkey gob - biers, lOd; hens, Bd. UPPER HUTT STOOK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Company Lim- ' itek report baing held their usual fortnightly sale in their Upper Hat stool* yards on the 7th finstant. A fall entry of cattle was yar Jed, bat very few sheep. Young cattle Jail through shewed a drop w prices, bat sheep were eagerly competed for. They quota a follows: Crossbred woolly hoggets, 15b lid; forward wethers and ewes, 19s; fat bullocks £6; yuarllngs, 20s; 18-montb belfere, £1 lis: 2 year-old heiferSi £118s; springing heifers, £2 10s to £4; store oowb, £2 13a to £3 2s; forward cows £4; balls £3 19s.