WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8471, 24 June 1907, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Mev cantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows: —We offered a catalogue of about 40 bales wool, 1,000 skin;?. 200 hides and a small lot of tallow, at Friday's sale. In addition to the usual buyers one or two new ones operated. Bidding was spirited to a point, but prices for skins and crutchings were hardly so good as last sale, and may be quoted id per lb lower. Hides in sympathy with a further decline in Australia dropped id to id per lb. We quote:— Wool: Rough crossbi'ed, none offered; nominal 7Jd to 7gd ! ; crutchings, clean, 6Jd to 6jjd; crutchings, seedy, 4sd to 6d. Sheepskins: Crossbred pelts, 6Jd to 7d; inferior and broken pelts, 2d to sd; half bred and threequarterbred woolled crossbred, 8d to BJd; lambskins, 8d to B£dperlb; green skins, from 4s 6d to fis lOd each; green lamb skins, 3s to 4s 9d each. Hides: Ox, light, 5d to s|d; ox, heavy, up to 6£d; cow, 4ld to s|d; damaged hides, l|d to 4Jd; calf skins, sound, 6d to 6§d; calf skins, damaged, 3d to sd. Tallow: In good demand at late rates. Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report:—We offered 110 bales wool, 2,400 skins, 1,000 hides, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. There was an excellent attendance of buyers from various parts of New Zealand. Prices for the best crutchings remained the same, but inferior were easier. A superior lot of crutchings reached 72d, which is easily the record for the season, but the bulk of medium crutchings sold at about 6d to 6Jd. We quote: —Wool: coarse crossbred, 8d to B£d; rough and inferior, 6d to 11 d; pieces and bellies, 4Jd to 6d; locks, 3d to 4d; crutchings, good, 6d to 7id; crutchings, seedy, 4d to s|c\ Skins: Sold at last sale rates, but there was an easier feeling. We quote:—Merinos, 7d to 8d; fine crossbreds, 8d to Bfd; coarse crossbreds, 8d to BJd; dead skins, 6)|d to 7d; dead hoggets, 6Jd to7d; dry pelts, s£d to 6d; lamb skins, 7Jd to Sid; green skins, 5s 2d to 7s 9d; lamb pelts, 3s to 4s Bd. Tallow: Firm. Parcels in shipping order, £27; tins, £l7 to £22 15s; rough fat, £l6 10s. Horsehair: Is to Is 6d per lb. Horns: 8s to 20s 3d per 100. Hides: We offered a record catalogue of 1,000 hides, many good lines being catalogued. The markets in Australia are lower and prices fell here accordingly to the extent of Jd per lb aK round. We quote:—Ox hides, extra heavy, 6Jd to. 6gd; oxhides, 601b to 701b, 6d to 6Jd; oxhides, 501b to 591b, s|dto sfd; cow hides, 5d to s£d; calf skins, best, 6d to 7Jd; calf skins, cut and slippy, 3d to 4d; hides, cut ind slippy, 4d to s&d; stag hides, 3Jd to 4Jd; bull hides; 3Jd to 4d. The next sale will be held on Friday, July sth, 1907. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as follows—Buyers were well represented, and as the market for wool and skins was firm at last sale ' rates, competition was animated. There was a very weak market for hides, all sorts declining in value as much as Jd per lb. The drop was | doubtless due to the uncertain markets in Australia, where hides are at present weakening in value. We quote as follows—Wool: Crossbred, medium, 8d toߣd; crossbred, inferior, 62d to 7d; lambs, 7sd; crutch-, ings, medium, 6Jd to 6gd; inferior, s|d to 6d. Skins: Crossbred, sound pelted, fine. Bfd; medium, B£d to Bjd; coarse, 7|d to 8d; shorts, 7d to 7Jd; dead and broken, 5Jd to 6|d; black, 5Jd to 6Jd; lambs, full woolled, B£d to Bfd;' shorn, 7Jd to 7|d; pelts, sound, 6Jd to 7d; inferior, 5d to 5Jd; green skins, medium, 6s 3d to 7s each. Hides: Ox, medium, 5Jd to s|d; .ox, slippy and cut, 4fd to s£d; cows, medium, 5Jd to s|d; cows, cut and slippy, 4Jd to sd; yearlings, s£d; calf, 6fd to 7d; calf, cut and slippy, 3Jd to 4§d. Tallow: In casks, £27 per ton; in tins, 22s per cwt; rough fat, 16s per cwt.