WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Messrs Levin and Company, Ltd., report as follows regarding Friday's sale: —We held our fortnightly sale on Friday, offering 25 bales wool, 2.000 skins, 450 hides, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. Wool. —There was good competition, and buyers operated with more confidence at advanced prices in accordance with better tone in London. We quote:— medium crossbred, 4d to sfd; inferior, 2d to 4cl; lambswool, 4d 'to 3d; pieces and locks, Id to 2d; good crutchings, 4d to 4|d; medium crutchings, 3d to 4Jd; seedy and inferior, 1& to 2|d. Skins.—Market showed an advance of £d for all classes. We quote—Fine crossbreds, 4J to s|d; crossbred, 4d to 4fd; dead skins, 2d to 3£d; dead hoggets, 2 I to 3£d; dry pelts, Id to 3d; lambskins, 3d to sd; green pelts, 2s to 3s 4d ; green lambs woolly, 2s to 3s 4d; gceen lamb pelts, Is to 25.. Tallow. Firm. Parcel in shipping order, £23. Tins, £lB to £2l 10s; rough fat, £lO to £l3. Horsehair. —Is to Is 3d per lb. Horns—ss to 17s 6d per hundred. Cowtails —Is 6d to Is 8d per dozen. Hides. —Easier in sympathy with oversea markets. Prices for heavies felled, lights gd; cow hides steady. We quote.—Ox hidjs, (heavy), 5Jd to6d; oxhides (medium), 5d to 5Jd; ox hides (li.{ht), 4d to 4|d * cow hides, 3sd to 4d; cut and slippy hides, 2d to 3Jd; stag hides, 2Jsd to 3d; bull bides, 2d to 3d; calf, best, 4d to sgd; calf, cut and slippy, 2d to 3d. Our next a tie will be held on Friday, July 31st. ; Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report as folows. —Competition was fairly animated, and the more cheerful tone prevailing iti the wool market at Home was reflected in to-day's bidding. A fair quantity of crutchings was offered, and prices showed an advance on last sales. All classes of skins were sold at prices in favour of sellers. We quote as follows 1 — Wool—Sliped. fine crossbred lambs, Bsd; sliped medium lambs, 6d to 7fd; crossbred. 4&d; crutchings, light in condition, 3Jd to 4d; heavy, 21d to 3|d; locks and pieces, l£d to 2d. Sheepskins—Crossbred, crossbred shorta, 3|d to 4|d; dead and inferior and damaged, ljdto 3Jd; lambs, 3d to 4d; damp, sound pelted, j! to 3s 8d each; inferior pelted, and short in wool, Is lid to 2s lOd each; butchers, green, 3s 6d each; salted skins, crossbred short, fine wools, 2s 8.1 to 3s; full woolled, 2s to 3s 6d; lambs, salted, Is 2d to 2s Gd. Hides. —No prime heavy offering. Ox, medium, sfd to sJdperlb; ilght, 4jfd to sgd; cows, medium, 4£d to 4jd; light, 3f:l to 3£d per lb; yearling, 3£d; steers, 3id to 4Jd; horse, 119 6d; calf, s§d to 5Jd; inferior, 25'!. Tallow —In casks, (inferior), 21/s 6d per cvvt; in tins, 21s 9d per cwt; fat, 12s per cwt. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report: —At our sale on Friday we offered good catalogues, and have to report a hardening market fur wool and skins, with a weaker tendency in hides.—We quote: wool, good bright crutchings, 3fd t\> 4Jd; medium 2Jd to 3d; seedy crutchi2|d to 2|d; dead wool, 4d to 4Jd; locks, ljd to 2d; lambs, medium, 4d to 4£d. Sheepskins.—Halfbred and fine crossbred, 4Jd to s Jcl; crossbred, 3fd to 4Jd; lambs, 3gd to Jsd; pelts, 2Jd to 3Jd; damaged, Id tool; green skins, 2s to 3s 8d each. Hides. —ox, heavy. 5d to 5Jd; ox, light, 3Jd to 4?d; cow, -3id to 4i i; calf, sound, faulty, 2d to 3|d. Tallow.—Butchers, \ mixed, 223 to 233 6d per cwt; tins, 2J3 to 22s per cwt.