WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9558, 3 August 1909, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Messrs Levin and Company, Limited, report as follows regarding last Friday's sflle:—We offered "34 bales of wool, 2,500 skins, 450 hides and calfskins and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. There was a good attendance of buyers. Wool.—Mar- . ket quiet and prices for crutchings a farthing down. We quote: Crossbred fleece 5d toBJd; lambs 6d to 7d; superior crutchings 4Jd to sd; medium crutchings 4d to 4i r l; inferior crutchings 3d to|4d; pieces and belies 2d to 4d: locks IJd to 3d. Skins.—The sales in London were held on Thursday and disclosed an easier market, which was to some extent reflected upon the sale here to-day. We quote: Fine crossbred 7d to 7i;d crossbreds 6d to 6£d; lambs skins 6d to 6£d; dead skins 3d to 5Jd; dead hoggets 4d to 5Jd; short wools 4d to 4£d; dry pelts • to4£d; green skins 4s to 5s 7d; laimb skins, green 3s to 4a. 6d. Tallow.*-Firm. Parceh in shipping order £22 tji:s, #8 to £2? I isd; rough fat iJO iu £ls. Hursc- [ hair.—la to Is 4d per lb. Horns.— 5 3 to 16s per hundred. CowtaiK— Is 3d to lslOd per dozeii. Hidci. Strong demand at improved prices, particularly for medium ox and eows; calfskins, however, were easier/ We quote: Ox hides, heavy 6d to %d, medium s|d to 6|d, light 5d to s*d/ cow hides 5d to 5Jd; cut and slippy hides, 2d to sd; stag hides 2£d- to Hd; bull hides 2d to 4Jd; yearKnga 5d calf, best 7d to Bid, medium 5d to 6fd; 'cut and slippy 3d 1 to'sd.—Our next sale will be held t on Friday, 13th August 1909. Messrs Dalgety mid* Company,Limited, report having;, lieldj} their ifortnightly sale of wodlj- arid 1 ! I hides on Friday last, when they dfl> J ered a good catalogue of all classes to a large attendance of buyers. ! The following will give an indication ; of prices —Wool.—Prices j were on a par with last sale. CrossI bred medium 7d; inferior 4fd to 5Jd; j lambs, seedy 6Jd; pieces 2Jd to 4d; I locks 2Jd; dead sjj>d; crutchings 3id • to' sd. Sheepskins.—Good sorts ' shewed an advance of Jd; other sorts at par with last sale rates; halfbred ■ medium 6Jd to 6fd; crossbred 4d !to 7|d; crossbred dead 4|d to s£d; crossbred black 4£d; pelts 3d; crossbred hoggecs 7|d; larnbs 4Jd to o|d; crossbred damp 3s 6d to 5s 8d; cross ' cred salted 3s Id to ss. Hides. — Good sorts showed an advance ot Id; other sorts at par with last salr. Ox: no prime oifering; heavy 6§d ai d 6fa; medium s|d to 6gd; lifilit s£d to 6d; cut sgd; cow, medium sgd to sid; slippy 4d; 4&d; calf, no prime offering; best 7d to 8d; inferior 3d to sgd; yearlings 4Jd to 51d. Tallow.—ln barrels 2iis; in tins- and drums 20s 9d to 21s 9d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile report as follows.: —At our sale on Friday last there was a good attendance of buyers and active competition at prices in accord with London parity. Crutchmg are lower by id to Jd per lb. We have cable advice from London reporting a dej cline at Thursday's skin auctions ■ j there of id to $d per lb in clothing ; and cqarse and medium combing skins, and we have to report an equal drop here. Fine wooHed skins are selling at last sale rates. Hides were eagerly competed for. We quote: Wool: Crossbred medium 6d to 6£d; inferior 4d to 5Jd; crutchings, superior 5d to sid, good 4d to 4Jd, inferior and seedy IJd to 3Ad; locks and pieces 2£d to 4j|d. Sheepskins: Fine 6gd to 7d; coarse sgd to 6£d; lamb skins 5Jd to 7d; dead and faulty skins 4d to 6d; good pelts 4d to sd; damaged pelts £d to 3d; salted and damp skins 2a 6d to 6s, and up to 7d f»r extra heavy. Hides: Ov. medium 5d to 6Jd; cow and light hides 4ffl, to 5Jd; yearlings 5d to 5Jd; faulty hides 3d to 4£d; calf, sound 7d to Bid. damaged 3fd to Gd Tallow: In tins 22s to 23s par cwt. Horsehair to Is Id per lb.