WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9098, 26 May 1908, Page 7

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Messrs Levin and Company, Limited, report as follows regarding Fri•da/'s sale. — Wo offered a small quar'titv of wool in bales and bags, I.OOU /skin 3, 560 hides, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. Wool.—Mar- . ket remains steady at last sale rates. ',We quote: Medium crrossbred, 3d to -4Jd; inferior, 2d to 3d; lambs wool, 4d to sd; pieces and locks, Id to 2d. ,'Skins.—Mai ket firm at last sale rates. We quote: Fine crosibreds, •4 I to 4|ci- crossbre.l, 3d to 4d; dead skin 3, 2d to 3d; dead hoggets, ljd to 2id; dry pelts, lei to ljd; lamb skins, 3d t.) 4Jd; green pelts, 2s to 2s 9d; green lambs woolly, 2s to 2s 9d; green lamb nelts, Is to Is 9d. 'Tallow.—Stes dy. Parcels in s' i•orde •£: 2. Tins £ls to £1 i Kough fa: £lO to £l3. Horsehah. Is to Is Id p3r lb., Horns.—ss to 17a 6d per hu mred. Cowtails.—ls Gd : ,to Is 8d dozen. Hides.—We had a heavy catalogue of hides which were well competed for at last sale pri- e'. We quote: Oxhides: heavy, 6d .o 6Jd; medium, 6d to 61d; light, 4d to sgd; cowhides, 3Jdto4Jd; cut and .•shppv Juries, 2d lo 3UI; stag hides, ..2Jdio3Jd; bull hides, 2d to 22d; calf best, 4d to s£d; calf cut andl .. slippy, 2d to 3d. Our next Sale wil bj held on Friday sth June, 1908.

Messi'3 Dalgety and Company, Limited, report i:s follows: -A good cata- . logue of skins and hides was offeied to a full attendance of buyers. The demand for skins showed an improvement on last sale, prices for best lines being about one halfpenny per pound in excess of previous rates. There was abo good competition for '■ hijes, and a firmer tone existed throughout, prices being slightly in advance of last sale. We quote as follows: Wcol.-C:u'ching- ; 2d to •Sid per lb; slips d ku.ls, 4Jd; ViC:t,z Ibred SJd. Sheepskins.—-Full'vvoolled crossbred, 3fd to 4Jd; fine croaEbred, 4Jd; half-wool ncssbred, 4}d; quar-ter-wool crossbred, 3£d; shorts, 3Jd ;to 3j|d; crossbred d.al and broken, :.2£d to 3id: pelts, 2Jd; lambs, .-ajd; lambs broken, 2Jd; crossbred .salted, 2a (3d to 2s lid each; half- ■ bred salted, 2s Cd each; lambs salted, Is 7d to Is 8d each. Hides.—Ox: '72lbs to7slbs, GJd to 6|d per lb. . 64lbs to 62lbs, 4id to s|d per lb; . 421b3 to 4Slbs, 4Jd to 4Jd. Cow: 511b5., 4|d; 401bf to 411bs, 3ld to -4Jd; 731b3, 41. Yearlings: lSlb-% 35d. Calf: lOlbs, sd; 61bs, 6Jd; Gibs, cut, 4Jd; 51bs, 4*d to 4Jd. 1 Tallow.—ln shipping order, £2l 5s to £23 per ton. In tins, 18s to 20s 3d T«per cwt.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows:—We offered a fairsized catalogue of skins and a small quantity of wool, hides and tallow. We are pleased to report a firmer tone in the skin market, especially for sound lots and for these valuta are about id per lb. better than last sales rates. We quote: Wool.—Good clean crutchings 2?rd to 3d per lb; seedy and inferior, ljd to IJd; crossbred fleece, coarse and seedy, 2Ad to 3-jd. Sheepskins.—Ha If bred, 4£d to 5Jd; crossbred full-woolled, 3£d to 4d; crossbred half-woolled, 3Jd to 32d; crossbred pelts, 2Jd toSJd; damaged skins, id to 2.jd; green skins, Is 9d to 2s 9d each. Hides.— In good demand at late rates. Tallow.—Butchers' good mixed in shipping order, 23s per cwt. Fat in odd packages and tins, 13s 3d to 20s Gd per cwt.