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WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., reports as follows regarding Friday s sale:—We offered 2,500 skins, 1,-000 hides and calfskins, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. There was a good attendance of buyers and bidding was very animated throughout: coming to hand being held zor the opening sale of the new season cn November 12th. Skins: Very strong competitions at last sale prices, dead and inferior skins advancing a half penny. We quote: —Fine crossbreds, 8d to 9d; erossbreds, 7d to 8d; hogget skins, 6d to 72<1; dead skins, 4d to 6Jd; dead hoggets, 5d to 61d; quarter to half wools, 4d to 6Jd; dry pelts, 2£d to sd; green skins. 5s to 8s; spring lambs, 9d to Is 3d. Tallow: Firm, parcels in shipping order £23 15s; tins, £lB to £22 15s; rough fat, £lO to £l9 10s. Horsehair: Is to Is 5d per lb. Horns: 5s to 16s per hundred. Cowtails: Is 3d pfer dozen. Hides. Market firm We quote: —Ox hides, heavy, 6id to 7d; ox hides, medium, 6d to 6gd, ox hides, light, 5d to sgd; cow 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 6gd; calf, best, 7d to lOd; calf, medium, 5d to 6|d; calf, cut and slippy, 3d to sd. Our next sale will be heid on Fri - day, October 22nd, 1909.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Wellington, report on their skin sale held on Friday as follows:—We offered a large catalogue of wool, skins and hides to a representative gathering of buyers. Bidding was 1 keen for all classes of produce. Wool of which our catalogue comprised mostly medium crutchings, was eagerly competed for, and ruled in favour of sellers. Skins and hides were in good dematid, and sold at late rates, although some lines of the former were wanted at a farthing lower than last sale. Damp skina tiold at slightly lower rates than the extreme prices paid at last sale. Tallow ruled firm. We quote: Rough crossbred, 7d; dead, fijd; washed pieces, 5Jd; medium crushing?, 5d to 5Jd; inferior, Skins: Halfbred, 9£d; fine crossbred, 8d; medium crossbred, 7sd;j coarse, 7£d; rough crussbred, 6fd; dead, 4£d to sfd; lambs, sfd to 7£d; halfbred wools, 6d to6id; merino, short, 7d: half, dry and green crossbred?, heavy, 7s lOd to 8s; medium, 7s to 7s 6d; lighter, 6s 3d to 6a lid; light, 5s sd; lambs, Is 3d. Hides: Heavy ox, 7d; medium ox, 6gd to 6&d; light", sfd to s i'J; medium cows, good, 6|d; poor con- ! ditions, s£d; jearlings, 65d: calf, ordinary, 9d to 9df: cut, 6§d. Tal ; 1 >w: In shipping order, medium quality 24s 3d per cwt. j The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— Our sale was well attended and ca'a logue were cleared at prices fully up to last sale's rate 3. Wool in bales is now being held for first sale of the j seasjn taking place on November 12th, consequently our offerings comprised bag lots only. We quote: —Sheepskins: Fine crossbred, 7£d to BJd per lb; coarse crossbred, 6Jd to 7Jd per lb; dead skins, 4Jd to 6£d per lb; short wools, 4d to sd; green md damp skins, 2s 6d to 8s 6d t. cii, lambs, Is to la 2d each; shorn ;.tlts, lOd to Is. Hides: Ox, medium, s|d tob'd perlb; cow and light ox, sgd to s|d per lb; faulty hides, to J 41dper lb; faulty hides, 3|d to 4sd per lb; calf, best, 9d to 20d per lb; calf, medium, 7d to Bid per lb; calf, faulty, 2d to 6fd per lb. Bones: To 40s per ton. Horns: To t l3s per 100. Tails: To Is per dozen. Tallow: In tins 20s 6d to 23s par cwt.

Dalgety and Co , Ltd , report having held their fortnighly sale of wool, skins and hides, on Friday, when they offered a good catalogue of all classes to the usual attendance of buyers. [Prices were as follow Wool: Only a small offering, most lots baing held over for November sale. Prices were on a par with last sale. Crossbred, inferior, s£d to 6d: crossbred, dead, s|d toGgd; crutchings, 4£d; black seedy, 4Jd; washed pieces, 5d to sgd; locks and pieces, l£d to 4d; washed locks, 32<1. Rabbitskins, 9|d. Horsehair: Is. Sheepskins: Prices were on a par with last sale for bettar qualities, inferior sorts were rather firmer and green skins were slightly easier. Best halfbred, 9d; fine crossbred, good, 8d to B£d; crossbred, 5d to 7jfd; crossbred, dead, 5Jd to 6£d; crossbred shorts, 5Jd; halfbred shorts, d; meiino, 6d to 7£d; crossbred, broken and seedy, 3Jd to s|d; hoggets, Gel; crossbred, damp, best, 7a to 8s 8d; crossbred inferior, 3s Gd ; new season's lambs, Is Id to Is 2d. Hides: On a par with last sale. No prime heavy hides offering. Ox, medium, Gd to Cgd; light, s§d to s£d; cow, od to ojd; cat, 5d to s&d; slippy, 4.1 to 4}d; yearling, 52d to 6gd; calf, bast, 8d to 9gd; medium, 6d to 75 i; inferior, 4d to sid. Tallow: - In casks, 23s Gd; in tins, 23a to 23s 3d.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9618, 11 October 1909, Page 3

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WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9618, 11 October 1909, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9618, 11 October 1909, Page 3

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