WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9605, 27 September 1909, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Levin and Co.. Ltd , report as follows regarding Friday's sale:— We offered 15 bales of wool, 2,500 skins, 1,600 hides and calfskins an 1 a quantity of tallow and horsehair.

There was a good attendance of buyers and in sympathy with the advance in London, prices rose in a marked manner. Bidding was vtry animated. Wool: Very iittle is now offering but the few bales avaiiabie were snapped up eagerly by buyers at satisfactory prices. We quote: Crossbred fleece, none offering; lambs, none offering; superior crutchings, 4|d to 5Jd; medium :

crutchings, 4d to 4Jd; inferior crutchings, 3d to 4d; pieces and bellies, 2d to 4d; locks, ljd to Hd. Skins: Fine skins advanced Id, and crosobreds, fd to Id. Dead skins £d. Green skins were strongly competed for at the full advance. We quote: —Fine crossbreds, 8d to 9d; crossbreds, 7d to 8d; lambs skins, 5Jd to 6£d; dead skins, 4d to 6d; dead hoggets, 5d to 6d; quarter-bred to half-bred wools, 4:1 to s£d; dry pelts, 2|d to sd; green skins, 5a to Bs. Tallow: Firm. Parcels in shipping order, £23 15s; tins, £lß|to £2l ss; rough fat, £lO to JJ.JEIS. Horsehair, Is to Is sd, Horns,£ss

to 63 per hundred;. Cowtails; .Is 3d to Is 7d per dozen. Hides: Market firm. We quote:—Ox hides, heavy, 6|d to 7d; ox hides, medium, 6d to 6£d: ox hides, light, hides. 5d to s£d; cut and slippy hides, 2d to sd) stag hides, 2Jd to 4|d; bull hides, 2d to 4gd; yearlings 5d to 6Jrl; calf, best, 7d to 9gd; calf, medium. 5d to 6|d; calf, cut and slippy, 3d to sd. Our next sale will be held on Friday, October Bth, 1909. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their fortnightly sale of wool, skins and hides on Friday, whjn they offered a good catalogue of all classes to the usual attendance of buyers. In sympathy with the rise at the Home market prices for most lots were in sellers' favour, and everything met with keen competition Prices were as follow:—Wool: From id to $d in advance of last sale

rates. Our catalogue was mostly comprised of crutchings. Crutchings, 3|d to sJrd; mixed crutchincs and pieces, 4Jd to 4fd; inferior crossbred, logstained, sfd. Horsehair, Is. Sheepskins: About id in most cases, and in some cases of extra good lots fully U in advance of last sale rates. Damp skins, 9d to Is; best halfbred, 9d to 9Ad; good fine crossbred, ?id to Bid; coarse crossbred, s|d to 7£d; crossbred, shorts, 4£dto6Jd; dead, 4Jd to s£d; hoggets, 6Jd to 7£<l; inferior pelts. Id to 3d; new season's lambskins, Is Id; crossbred lamb, best, 5s 3d to 7s; inferior. 3s 9d. tlides: Prices on a par witn last'sale rate 3. Heavy ox, 6jjd to

7|d; med.um, sgd to6Jd; cut, s|d; cow, s|d to 52d; cut and slippy, 3|d fcrsJ; stig, 4|d; calf, best, to 9Jd; medium, 6|d; inferior, Id to s|d; dry hides, 3d to s|d; horse hides, lis Tallow:. In shipping ordar, 245; in tins, 223 6d to 22s 9d.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, Ltl ~ report as follows:-We offered a go:)d catalogue to a large and animated attendance of buyers. Tha recent cable advices trom London reporting ad varices in sheepskins and in woe" f all classes h.vi a v?rv stimol g effect upon c. r local market. "7. ?J; Crutchings, since last sale advanced about id to $d per lb, while fi ce WJ3 £d to fd better "than a month ago Sheepskins were in keen demand at advances of about Jd for damaged and inferior, Jd for medium sorts, and gd to Id for sound

good quality skin 3. Green skins sold well'at from 6d to Is advance on last sale prices. Hides did not show much change in values, but calf' s:ins in good order sold readily frorr 8d to 9£d. We quote: —Wool: Crossbred, fins, 9J to 9&d; crossbred, coarse, 5Jd to 62J; eroaabrea, inferior and seedy, 4Jd to s|d; crutchings. medium, 4Jrl to . 4|d; crutchings-, inferior and seedy, 4d to 4Jd; bellies and pieces, 4}d tos2d; locks. 2fd to 3d. Sheepskins: Fine cross bred, 7Jd to 8d; coarse crossbred, 6Jd to 7Jd; lambskins, shorn, s|d to 6sd; dead and faulty skins, 4d to 6id; inferior. L'Jd to 3£d; shore wools, 4d to sd; green and damp skins, 2s 6d to 8s 3d each; spring lambs, 1-i Id each. Hides: Ox, medium, s|d to 6d; cow and light ox, s§d to s|d; faulty hides, 3d to 4d; calf, sound, 8d to 9|d; calf, damaged, 3d to 62d. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Wellington, report on their skin sala as follows:—We offered a good catalogue comprising a few odd lots I of wool, about 2,000 skins and 200 hides and calfskins, to a large attendance of buyers. Bidding for everything offered was keen, and prices for wool and skins showed a very marked advance upon last quotations. We ■ quote: Wool: Only odd lots offered. Crossbred, 6£d to 7£d; good crutchings, s|d; inferior, pieces, 3§d; Skins: These show an advance of £d to Id per lb. Half-

bred, 9Jd; fine crossbred, B|d; medium crossbred, 8d; coarse crossbred, 7±d: haif-wools, 6Jd to 6|d; cross-

( bred, damaged, 6d; dead, 6d to 6.Jd; butchers' crossbred, damaged and | green, extra heavy, 9s to 10s 9d; heavy, 7s Gd to 7s lOd to 8a Id; medium, 6d 9d to 7s 4tl; ht, 4s 4d to 5s Sd to 5s lid; salted, 63 lie. Hides: Heavy ox, Ghd; medium ox, 6&d to 6gd; light,'sJd to 5Jd; cows, medium 5Jd to sfd; cow, damaged, J!s&d; prime calf," 9Jd; ordinary,*S§d to 9|d; cowtaiis, Is 8d per dozen.