WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9191, 14 September 1908, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

' Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report as follows regarding Friday's sale : We offered 20 bales wool, 2,600 skins, 835 hides, and a quantity of tallow and horse hair. Wool—The market remains steady at last sale ratea. We quote: Medium crossbred, 4d to 5Jd; inferior, 2d to 4d; lambs wool, 4dtosd; pieces and locks, Id to 2d; good crutchings, 3Jd to 3sd; medium, 22dto3Jd; seedy and inferior, Id to 2id. Skins—There was good competition. Fine skins advanced one half-penny and crossbred one farthing. Green skins advanced threepence. We quote: Fine crossbreds, 5d to 6Jd; crossbred, 4d to sd; dead skins, 2d to 3&d; dead hoggecs.2dto3Jd; dry pelts,, Id to 3d; Jamb skins, 3dto4£d; green skins, 2s 6d to 4s 7d. Tallow—Firm. Par«el4 in shipping order £23; tins, £lB to £2l JOs; rough fat, £lO tu £l3. Horsehair —Is to Is 3d per lb. Horns, 5s to 17s 6d per hundred. Cowtails, Is 4d to Is 8d per dozen. Hid 33 We Drought forward a large catalogue .of hides in good condition, which met —Vita excellent competition at full pricjs. We quote: Oxhides, heavy, £ i co 6§d; ox hides, medium, sid to .5Jd; ox hides, light, 4d to 4Jd; cow hid as, 4d to4Jd; cut and slippy hides, 21 to 3Jd; stag hides,2£d to 3d; bull ihiJes, 2d to 3d; calf, best, 4d to 6sd; calf,cut and slippy, 2d to 3d. Our .tvjxc sale will be held on Friday, Sep.fember 25th, 1908. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., held .cbeir fortnightly sale of wool, tkins, hides and tallow on Friday, when a Jjrge catalogue of all classes was submitted to a good attendance of buyers. They report as follows:—Wool — There was spirited competition, and prices advanced by about £d per lb, icrossbred lambs selling at from 4Jd to 5Jd; crossbred fleece, 5Jd; inferior, 2Jd; crossbred crutchings, ,2|J to 3id; inferiQr, 2d to 2Jd; crossbred locks and piec.e3, IJd to l|d. Sheepskins advanced by about £d per lb; fine crossbred realised s£d to 6d; crossbred, 4d to f»id; half bred, 4d to s£d; crossbred shorts, 3d to. 4d; crossbred, dead and broken, 2jd to 4d; crossbred hoggets, sd; crosibred ljunbs, 4&d to sid; inferior, 3Jd to 5 5 1; shorn lambs, 3jd; lamoa, dead ami broken, 3id to,4d; merino, 3£d; uelcs, 21d; inferior, id; crossbred, .silted, 2s 9d to 3) lid; crossbred, d4<np, 2s 8d to 3s 6d. Hides —No prime lots offering. Prices were on a par with last sale rates, excepting ■calf, which showed considerable improvement. Ox, 73lbs, s§d; 64 to •651bs, 5d tosftd; 53 to 551bs, sd; 43 to 441bs, 411; cut, 411 os, 3|d; cow, 63 to 561bJ, 41d to 4fd; 42 to •43103, 4Jd to 4id; cut, 401 bk to 431 Ds, 3&d to 3§d; 33 to 351bs, 3Jd to ,3gJ; heifer, 311bs, 4£d; cut, 30 and ■3ilbs, 3Jd to 3gd; steer, 30lbd, 4d; .bull, 75 to 801b3, 3d tu 3±d; 531bs, ■3JI; yearlings, 22lbs, 4£d; slippy, 201bs, 3Jd; calf, 61bs, 61d to 7d; ■4l ba, 6£d; 121bs, sd; cut, lOlbs, 4Jd; cut, 7lbs, 4id; cut, 51bs, 3§d. Tallow—ln shipping order, £23 5s to £24 per ton; casks, £22 5i to £23 5s ; par ton; tins, 21s 6d to 23j 6d per cwt. The New Zealanfl Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as under:-—There was a good attendance of buyers at our sale, and we &re pleased to report an improvement in prices. We estimate —Wool appreciated par to £d per lb, and 1 sheepskins about £d per lb. Hides ; ritiain firm, but calfskins, sound , arfi in good condition were &d per lb I ' higher than last sale. We quote: Wopl—Crutchings, medium, 3£d to 3Jd; crutchings, heavy and seedy, IJdto 3d; crossbred fleece, straggleis, 4sd to sd; crossbred lambs, 4|d to '■ 5Jd. Skins Crossbreds, fine, 5Jd to 6d; crossbred 3, coarse, 4id to s£d; crossbreds, short wool, 2Jd to 3Jd; crossbreds, damaged, ldto4d; green skins, up to 4s 2d each. Hides—Ox, medium, to igjd; ox, light, to 4|d; cow, 4d to 4.§ d; damaged hides, 2Jd to 3d; dry hides, ljd to &Jd; calf, sound, 6d t'o '7& d,; calf, damaged, ldto4fd; cowtails, dry, to 7£d per lb. TallowIn tins, 20s 6d to 23s per cwt; rough fat, to 12a per cwt.