MASTERTON WOOL, SKIN AND HIDE SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 28 March 1907, Page 6

MASTERTON WOOL, SKIN AND HIDE SALES.

Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report as follows: —We held our monthly sale of wool, skins, hides and tallow, yesterday, offering 30 bales of wool, 100 bags wool, 1,500 sheepskins and 100 hides, also a quantity of tallow, horsehair, etc. There was a fair attendance of buyers, and nearly everything offered was cleared under the hammer at full prices. Tallow was strongly competed for, and record prices for the product were obtained, as high as £25 15s being paid for one parcel. The selection of hides offered was a poor one, and consequently low prices were obtained. If farmers would attend to the salting of hides there would ,be no difficulty in realising good prices for this by-product. Wool and skins sold at last sale prices. We quote:— Wool: Crossbreds to lOd, dead 8d to 9|d, lambs 8d to 9|d, pieces and bellies sid to7d, locks 4d to 5Jd. Skins: Fine crossbreds and halfbreds 9d to 9|d, crossbreds BJd to 9sd, dead 6Jd to Bd, dead hoggets 6fd to Bd, lambs ,BJd to 9Jd, pelts 7£d to Bd. Hides: Best cow and ox 5Jd to 6£d, inferior and slippy 34d to sd, stag and bull hides 3Ad to 4d, calf skins 31d to 6id. Tallow: Casks 23s to 25s 9d, tins 21s to 23s 6d, rough fat 14s to 16s 6d. Horse hair, Is 4d. The next sale will be held on May Bth.

The Wairarapa Co-operative Farmers' Association, Ltd., and Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd., held their monthly wool, skin and hide sale yesterday. They 4 report as follows:—There was the usual good muster of buyers, and bidding was on a very satisfactory basis. We offered 1,200 sheepskins, 110 bags wool, 35 hides, and a few tins of tallow. We quote the following prices realised: —Wool —Fleece, 8d to 9Jd; fleece, seedy, 7&d to 9-gd; lambs, 8d to 9d; lambs, seedy, 6id to BJd; dead wool, 6£d to BJd; pieces, s|d to 6£d; locks and pieces, 4d to s£d. Skins—Crossbred, 7kl to 9fd; seedy, 6Jd to 7|d; fine crossbred, 9£d; lambs, 8d to Bfd; crossbred, dead, 7Jd to 8d; pelts, 2s lOd each. Hides Cow, heavy, s£d per lb; cow, medium, 4§d per lb; cow, light, sd; cow, slippy, 4Jd to 4|d; ox, heavy, sgd; ox, slippy, 4Jd to 4i;d; cow, part dry, 6Jd; calf, 4£j-d to 6d; calf, slippy, 3gd; tallow, 21s to 225. Our next sale will be held on May Bth.