WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3175, 28 April 1909, Page 7

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Messrs Levin and Company, Limited, Wellington, report as follows regarding Friday's sale:—We offered 70 bales wool, 3,500 skins, 1,100 hides and calfskins, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. There was the usual attendance of buyers and bidding was brisk. Wool. —Sold on i a par with recent prices. We quote : Crossbred fleece, 5(1 to 6Jd; best lambs, 7d to 7|d; medium lambs, to 6jkl; pieces and bellies, 2d to 4d; locks, lid to 2fd Skins.— There was no change in the market but for green skins there was strong demand at high priced We quote: Fine crossbreds, 6d to 7d; crossbreds, 5d to 6Jd; dead skins, 3d to sd; dead hoggets, 3d to 4£; green pel is, 2s 6d *o 3s 9d; lamb skins, 2s 6d to 3s lid; lamb pelts, Is to Is 9d. Tallow.—Firm. Parcels in shipping order £24. Tins £lB to £2O 10s. Rough fat £lO to £ls. Horsehair.— Is to Is 4d per lb. Horns.—ss to 16s par hundred. Cowtails.—ls 3d to Is 6d per dozen. Hide?. —We again brought forward a good catalogue, with calfskins in large demand; , while cow hides recovered the drop from last sale and sold freely. We quote: Ox hides, heavy, 6|d to 7£d, medium, 6d to 7d, light, sdtb6d; cow hides, 5d to sgd; cut and slippy hides, 2d to sd; stag hides, 2|d to 4£d; bull hides, 2d to 4|d; calf, best, 7|d to 7gd, medium, 5d to 7d, cut and slippy, 3d to sd. Our next sale will be held on Friday, 7th May, 1909. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Aency Company, Limited, report as follows:- Owing to Good Friday having fallen upon the usual date for the Wellinton skin, hide and fat sales there has been no sale here since the 26th March, the result being that Friday's catalogues were unusually large, comprising roughly speaking some 10,000 skins and about 300 bales wool. There was a large attendance of buyers and competition for skins and hides more particularly was very brisk, the wool, being more or less mixed odds and ends seedy and inferior, was rather irregular, bat anything like good pieces and crutch ings sold well. We quote:—Wool: Crossbred, sdto6£d; lambs, 5d to 6|d; crutchings, 3d to 4Jd: dead, 3£dtosJd; locks and pieces, 2d to 4&d. Sheepskins: Coarse and medium crossbred, s£d' to 6Jd; lambs, 4£d to 6u; dead faulty, 2jd to sd; good pelts, 4d to 4gd; damaged pelts, 2d to 3£d; green skins, sheep, 2s lOd to 3s 8d; lambs, Is 8d to 3s sd. Hide.3: Medium ox, 5d to s|d; heavy cow, 3dtosJa; cow and light ox, 5d to s£d; damaged hides, 2£d to 4d; calf, sound, 6d to 7|d, faulty, 2d to 4d. Tallow : In casks, 20s to 23s 6d; in tins, 18s to 20s; rough fat, 12s 6d to 15s 3d. Horns, mixed, 10s per hundred; cowtails, lOd to 15i per dozen.