WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9076, 28 April 1908, Page 7

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Messrs Levin and Company, Limited report as follows regarding Fii.day's sale:—'We offered a small quantity of wool in bales and bags, 1,700 skins, 500 hides and a quantity .of tallow and horsehair. Wool.— Market remains steady at last sale rates. We quote: Medium crossbred, 4Jd to sd; inferior, 3d to 4d ; lambs wool, 4d to sd; pieces, 2d to 3d; locks, Id to 2d. Skins.—No .change to record. We quote: Fine •CNMsbreds, 5d to s|d; crossbred, 3[d to sd; dead skins, 3d to 'did; dean •hoggets, 2Jd to Sjd; dry pelts, 2d o 2&d; lamb skins, 4d to 4£; green pelts, 2s to 2s 8d; green iambs woolly; 2s to 2s 8d; green lamb pelts Is to Is 7d. Talbw. —Steady. Parcels in shipping order £24. Tins £ls to £l9. Kough fat £lB to £l4. iHorsehair. —Is to Is 3d per IL. Horns. —5s to 17s 6d per hm.dreo. Cowtails. —Is 6d to Is 8d per dozen, i Hides.—There was good demand for \ good conditioned hides at last silo j prices. We quote: Ox hides heavy, (id to6|J; medium, 6d to 6|d; light, 4d to sd; cow hides, 3Jd to 4Jd; cue • and slippy hides, 2d to 3£d; sta* hides 2jd to 3£; bull hides, 2uto 'mi; calf best, 4d to'sgd; calf cut and slippy, 2d to 3d. Our next Kale will be held on Friday May Bth, 1908.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantie Agency Company, Limited, report as follows; There was a good a Item - ance of buyers at Fririay'ri sales ana competition was good ;»t the low range of values now iulii:g. Cabled reports from London anticipate a further drop at the forthcoming sicc'pskin sales. We quote: Wool —Medium merino, to 6Ad per lb; medium and coarse crossbred, 4d to sd; inferior and seedy crossbred, to iUd; crutchings and pieces, bag lotr, Id to 3d; dead, in ba" lota, 33d to 43d. Sheepskins:— Crojsfcrad, full wool, 4dto4£d; halt wco's, 3Jd to 3£d; pelts, 2Jd to 3d; damaged, Jd to 2sd; pelts, green, lr, to ta 8d; lamb', Is 3d to 23. Hides.—Only a few damaged lo's were offered for which late rates were obtained. Tallow. • —Medium mixed, in shipping order, to 23s cwt., medium in tins and odd packages, to 20s 6d cwt.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Lin £ itedi report as follows: — r lhe a';ten< - ance of buyers was larger than usui 1 and prices for both skins and hides showed a slight aclvan?e on last sa'e rates. We quote as follows: —Woo!—■ Crossbred medium and seedy, 3d to 3Jd; inferior, 2d to 2Jd;<!latnhs, Bid. Sheepskins.—Medium .crossbred, 4d to 4£d; lambs, 4|d to s£d; eropsbred short, 2Jd to 3Jd; crossbred dead and broken, 2.|d to 3Jd; halfwools, 4|d; half bred, 52d; pelts, 2£d to2£d. Hide?.—Ox, 681bs, 5Jd; R2 to 551bs, 4gd to 4|d: 45 to 471bs, 3id to ' 4£d;3slbs, H 6; cut and slippy, 3d to 3Jd; cows, 51 to 53Ibs, 4|d to4£d; 35 to 441bs, 4d to 4Jd; cut and slippy, 3Jd to 3Jd; yearlings, 2d to 3gd; calf, 3d to 5Jd. Tallow. —ln casks, £24 per ton; in tins, 21s per cwt; rough fat, 16s 3d per cwt.