WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKINS SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8400, 15 April 1907, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKINS SALES.

♦ Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report as follows regarding Friday's nale:— We offered 60 bales of wool, 3,000 skins', 380 hides, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. Wool—-We quote: Halfbred IOJd to lid, coarse crossbred 9|d to 9|d, merino 9d to lOd, rough and inferior 8d to 9d, pieces and bellies 6d to 7fd, locks 3d to sd. Skins: Market was firm at current rates. We quote: Merinos 7£d to 8 Jd, fine crossbreds 9d to lOJcl, coarse crossbreds Bfd to 9|d, dead skins 6£d to Bd, dead hoggets 6|d to 7gd, dry pelts 5Jd to 7d, lamb skins 8d to 9Jd, green lamb skins 4s 3d to 5s 3d, green pelts 4s to 5s Bd, lamb pelts Is 6d to 3s. Tallow —Very active demand. Parcels in shipp n£ order £26, tins £l7 to £22, rough fat £ls. Horsehair—ls to Is 3d per lb. Horns —Bs to 22s 9d per 100. Hides—Prices wei-e very firm. We quote: Ox hides, extra heavy, 7d to 7Jd; ox hides, 701bs and over, 6|d to 7Jd; ox hides, SOlbs to 701bs, 6Jd to6Jd; cow hides, 5Jd to 6id; calf skins, best, 6d to 7£d; calf skins, slippy, 3d to 4d; calfskins, cut, 3d to 5Jd; cut and slippy hides, 5d to 6d; stag hides, 4d to sd; bull hides, 3Jd to 4Jd The next sale will be held on Friday, April 26th, 1907. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report as follows:—The attendance of buyers was larger than usual, and, although all were not operating, the competition was fairly animated. Our catalogue was a fully representative one in all classes, the wool offered being good, considering the time of the year. Prices all round •were much the same as those ruling at last sale, but skins may be quoted as having an upward tendency and hides at times were in favour of buyers We quote—Wool. —Super crossbred lid, medium 9Jd to i>sd, inferior, dingy and seedy BJd to 9d; aliped lambs, 10Jd; lambs, medium, 9d to 9|d; crutchings, 6d to 63d; washed pieces, 7Jd; pieces, s|d to 6Jd. Skins crossbred, medium wools, 9Jd to 9|d; shorts, 8&d to 9Jd; lambs, BJd to B|d; dead arid broken, 6Jd to 7|d; green skins,,4s 2d to 5s each. Hides—Ox, 701bs and over, 6ld; 601b to 691b, 6Jd to 6|d; 451b to 591b, 6|d to 62d; 441b and under, sfd; cow,, 551b and ovei\ 6d to6;ld; under 551b, 6£d to 6Jd; calf, 5Jd to 6di Tallow—Casks, in shipping order, £26 per ton. Zealand Loa'n and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—Our fortnightly sale was held on Friday, when we offered a fairly large catalogue of wool, skins, hides and tallow. Prices were about equal to last sales, with the exception of hides, which receded about Jd to Jd in value in sympathy with lower prices ruling in Australia. Tallow u lower by Is 6d to 2s per cwt. We quote:—Wool Coarse crossbred stragglers B|dto 9Jd; lambs, crutchings, s|d to 6Jd; lambs, inferior and seedy, 6&d to 7^l; pieces, s£d to 6|d. Sheepskins—Crossbred pelts 7|d to 8f d, inferior and broken pelts 4£d to 7d;full-woolldd crossbred BAd to 9Jd, lambskins 9d to 9Jd, dead skins 7Jd to BJd per lb, green skins 4s 3d to 5s 3d each, lambskins 3s 9d to 4s 9d each. Hides—Ox. 6d to 6£d; cow, sld to (3d; slippy and cut, 4d to s|d; calf, sound, 6d to 6Jd; calf, cut and damaged, 2d to sd. Tallow—ln shipping condition, good mixed 25s to 265, medium 23s 6d to 24s 6d; in tins and boxes from 18s 6d to 21s 9d per cwt.