MASTERTON WOOL, SKIN, AND HIDE SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8534, 12 September 1907, Page 7

MASTERTON WOOL, SKIN, AND HIDE SALES.

Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report as follows: —We held our monthly sale of wool, skins, hides, fallow, etc., yesterday, when we offered 25 bales wool. 50 bags wool, 1600 skins, 500 hides, and a quantity VoThorsehair, rabbit-skins, and tallow. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the sale went off with excellent spirit, competition for all lots in the catalogue being very keen. Skins sold at last sale rates. We quote—Wool—Crossbred 7d to 8d; crutchings, best s|d to 6£d, medium Ed to s|d, seedy and inferior 4d to 4|d; , : pieces and locks 3d tu 4Jd. Skins — Halfbred, 9d to 9Jd; crossbred, Sd to B£d;j dead skins, 6gd to 7£d;dead hoggets, 6£d to 7|d; lambs, 8d to t BJd; green skins to 6s lOd each. 1 Tallow—ln casks. 25s 6d percwt; in tins, 21s (id to 22s 3d percwt; , rough fat, 17s tc 17s 6d per cwt. | Horsehair —Is 5d per lb. Hides were weak and slow of sale. We quote—Ox hides, *4Jd to 4§d; cow hides, 4d to 4jd; calf skins, best 5d to 6£d, inferior 2Jd to 4£d; stag hides, 2Jd to 3§d; bulls' hides, 2d to 3d; cut and slippy hides. 2£d to 3|d. Our next sales will be held on October 23rd. We would ask clients to send in their consignments earlier I than they do. Nearly the whole of i the produce arrives a day or two before the sale, and the work of weighing, classing and lotting has to be done under great pressure in the few.days before a sale. It must be just as easy in many cases to get consignments into store a week or fortnight before the sale as it is to get thfiin a day before, and if clients would endeavour to get them here early it would assist us materially in organising the sales. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-oper-ative Association, in conjunction with Messrs Dalgecy and Co., report as follows:—We held our monthly sale of wool, skins, and hides, yesterday, offering 20 bales wool. 35 bags wool, 1,000 sheepskins, 300 hides, and about the same quantity of calfskins. There was a full attendance of buyers, and bidding was very satisfactory. We quote Wool— Crutchings 3d to sgd, fleece 4d to 7|d, dead wool 6£d, lambs' wool 7*d, locks and pieces 3Jd to 3Sd, horsehair Is sd, tallow 17s 3d to 18s per cwt. Skins— Crossbred close wool 9d, crossbred 7Jd to BJd, crossbieJ dead 6|d to 7d, crossbred broken 4Jd to 6fd, crossbred seedy sfd to BJd, crossbred green and damp 5s 3d to 6s fid each, crossbred broken damp 4s 8d *o 5s Id, green dead 3s 4d to 3s 6d each, shorts 4£d to Bi>d shorts seedy 4£d to 5Jd, shcrts dead 6d, hoggets 7£d, hoggets dead, 6£d, hoggets broken and seedy GJd. Hides —Ox 3fd to 4Jd, ox slippy 2|d to 3|d, ox put 3|d, cow 3Jd to 4fd, cow slippy I SSSto 3fd, cow cut 3|d, cow cut and sUppy 2[d to 2|d, yearling' 3Jd to 3|d, yearling slippy 2d to 2Jd, calf good s|d to 6d, calf cut 3§d to 4£d, calf slippy 2Jd to 3d. Clients are reminded t that our next sale is fixed for the 23rd October.