WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9582, 31 August 1909, Page 7

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Messrs Levin and Company, Limited, report as follows regarding Friday's sale:—We offered 35 bales of wool, 2,600 skins, 400 hides and calfskins, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair There was a good attendance of buyers. Wool.—There is no change to report, all wool selling freely at last sale rates. We quote. —Crossbred fleece 6d to Bd. lambs 6d to 7d, superior crutchings 4|d to s£d, medium crutching 4d to 4Jd, inferior crutchings 3d to 4d, pieces and bellies ?.d to 4d, Jocks IJd to 3d. Skins.—Strong at late rates. We quote: Fine crossrbeds 7d to 7|d, crossbreds 6ti to 7Jd, lambs' skins s&d to 6Jd, dead skins 3d to sd, dead hoggets 4d to s£d, short wools 4J to 4§d, dry pelta iJjd tv 4d, green skins 4s to 6s 4d, green skins extra heavy to 7s 3d. Tallow. —Firm. Parcels in shipping order £23 15, tins £lB to £2O ss, rough fat £lO to £ls. Horsehair.—ls to Is 2d per lb. Horns.—ss to 16s per hundred. Cowtails.—ls 3d to Is 7d per dozen. Hides, —Larger attendance of buyers than usual. Competition very keen and prices advanced Jd to id for all ox hides and calfskins. We quote.—Ox hides heavy 6*, dto 7|d, medium 6d to 61d. light 5d to 6d, cow hides 5d to sgd, cut and slippy hides 2d to sd, stag hides 2Jd to 4id bull hides 2d to 4gd, yearlings 5d to 6Jd, calf best 7d to 9|d, calf medium 5d to 6|d, calf cut and slippy 3d to sd. Our next sale will be neld on Friday, 10th September. The New Zealand Loan and Mer- , cantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows*—Keen bidding ; characterised the sale, and we have to report a firm market fer wool with prices slightly in advance of j late rates. Skins were in demand i as also were hides and callskins j Tallow sold at about last sale's j prices. We quote:—Wool.—Cross- , bred medium fleece 6d to 7d, crossbred inferior 4d to 5Jd, crutchings superior s|d, crutchiners good 4£d to ! 4|d, cru:things inferior and seedy j 2£d to 4|d. locks and pieces 2Jd to ; 4d. Sheepskins —Merino and fine crossbred 7d to 7|d, crossbred coarse j 6J to 7d, lamb skins s|d to 6|d, dead ! and faulty skins 4d to 6d, good pelts \ 3id to 4Jd, damaged pelts Id to 2d. | Hides.—Ox medium weight 5Jd to jj 6i«i, cow and light ox s§d to s£d, j yearlings 5d ot s|d, faulty hid<s j lid to 4id, calf sound 6Jd to 9id, calf damaged 3d tto 5Jd. Tallow.— 5 In tins 22s to 22s 6d per cwt. Horse- J bair to Is 3Jd per lb. | Messrs Abraham and WilliamF, S Ltd., report on their sale held on t'.e ] 27th inst. as follows:—We offered j a large catalogue of wool, nkins j and hides to a large attendance of ' buyers. Bidding was spirited tor all , cla ses of produce. Crutchings still continue to come forward in good <i quantities for which the demand is 1 good, and prices to-day shoved a fl hardening tendency, and in some in- 2 stances aJdto Jd advance. Skin valued ruled at about the same level as last sale; butchers' skins were siJghtly easier; hides were from par to l-8d hiuher. We quote.— Wool.--Rough dingy crossbred 5Jd, inferior .lambs 5d to 6Jd, medium crutchings 4Jd to 4§d, inferior 3fd to 4id, locks and pieces 2£d. Skins. —Crossbred medium fifd to 7Jd, coarse 6Jd, half-wools s|d, shorn lambs 6d, crossbreds inferior and damaged 3Jd to 3£d, dead 4£d to 5Jd, short merino 5Jd, butchers' damp skins and [good heavy skins 6s 6d to 6s 9d, lighter 5s 8d to 5s iOd. Hides. —Heavy ox 6§d, medium 6§:l to 6Jjjd, light 6d, heavy cows 6sd, medium and light s|d, yearlings sgd, calf medium 9gd, damaged 5d to 5Jd, cow tails Is 7d. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd. report having held thier fort- . nightly aale of wool and Bkins on Friday when they offered a good catalogue of all classes to a large attendance of buyers. The following gives an indication of prices realised: —Wool.—In good demand, ; prices being from Jd to Ad higher than those ruling at last sale. Medium crossbred 6d to 6|d, crutchings 3|d to s|d dingy lambs 6d, aead 4d. Sheepskins.—Firm at last sale prices, with the exception of ! green, which were in poor demand. | ' Half-bred 7£d, half-bred short 6Jd, j crossbred best 6£d to 7Jd, inferior 4fd to s|d, crossbred short sd. croasjj , brad dead 3£d to s£d, hocgets sfd to 7d, pelts 2£d to 3£d, crossbred damp 4s 9d to 7s 2d. Hides.—Prices in I sellers' favour, all sorts being in I good demand. Ox heavy 6g-d to 6Jd, medium s§d to 6Jd, cut s£d, cow od to s|d, cut and slippy 2id, year- ' j ling s£d to sgd, calf best B{jd to 9Jd, I medium 6Jd to 6§d, inferior 3d to j sgd, dry hides 5d to 5Jd, rabbit skins 9Jd. Tallow.—ln shipping j order 245, in drums and tins 21s 9d . to 22s 6d, rough fat 14s. I