LATE COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 May 1913, Page 5

LATE COMMERCIAL.

MASTERTON WOOL AND SKIN SALE. Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report: We held our usual wool, skin and hide sale to-day, when we submitted a catalogue of 10 bak\s and 50 bags wool, 1800 sheepskins, 70 hides and calfskins, and a large quantity of horsehair, rabbitskins, and tallow. There was a good attendance of buyers,, and competition was k?en at full market rate®. We quote: wool, fm<> crossbred lOd, medium coarse x-br«i B.}d to 9-id, inferior 7-Jd, dead 7d to B|d; lambs, good 9Jd to lOd, inferior s|d to pieces, 6Jd; locks, 4£d to sd; crutchings, best 7-Jd. seedy to s|d. Sheepskins: Best x-bred 8d to B£d, inferior 7-J-d, £-\vools to 7fd, $-woois 6d to shorts 4jfd to 6£d, pelts 3fd to sijd; lambs, best Bjd to 8-£ d, inferior 6d to d:\ad 6fd to noggets s£d to 7£d. damp 3s 3d to 5s 4d. Hides: Ox 6d to 7£d, cow (good) 7s, cow (cut slippy) 6£d to 6J-d, cow (drv'i Bjjd, calf (good) 9gd, calf (cut) 7fd to 7-Jd. Tallow: Casks 265, tins 22s to 23&. Horse]]air Is B}d. Rabbitskins: 9}d to lid. The New* Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows: We held our periodical sale yesterday before the usual attendance of buyers, and competition was very keen for wool especially crutchings. We quote as follows: Wool, super, crutchings 7>}d to Bd, medium do. 6Jd to CJd, ftp.?dy do. s£d, lambs to 10Jd, locks s£d; skins, x-bred coarse 7ijd to J-wools 6jd to J wool ft to 6;} d, dead 7d to 7|d, damaged 3 j ] to -sd; hides, cowhides to 7|d per lb, calfskins 7d to lOjd; tallow, in tins 235.

The Wairarapa Farmers' Co.op As. report: We held our usual sale of wool skins and hides yovb 'l'day, the 14th inst. There was good attendance cf buyers and prices realised were well up to the ruling market rates. We offered 1000 sheepskins, (5 bales and 20 bags of wool, 30 hides, 50 calf I skins, 110 tins tallow and. a quan-! t.ity of rabbitskins and horsehair, J everything being cleared. We quot x as tinder: Sheepskins, crossbred fine' 9d, do medium ftjd, do coarse 7 ; } d. j lambs Ist B£d, do '2nd 7s, wools 7|d. iwools 7-Jd-lambs dead rains 6cl, p?lts ssd ithort-s Oid, black 5-Jd; wool, fleece 9d to 9|d, dead 7£d, blsick 7sd, dead 7jd, crutcliings o|d to 7d; hides, ox sound 7-Jd, do slippy 6jd, cow sound 7fd, do slippy o-Jd to 6jd, do cut 6gd yearling sound 7d, ..oi\so hides 6s to 8s !kl each, calfskins sound 9fd, do. slippy 7£d, do cut 7-jjd, do cut and slippy s^d; tallow, Ist 23s per cwt, 2nd 21s 6d; horsehair, Is 7d p?r lb; rabbitskins, per lb. Messrs Dalgety and Co. report on their periodical wool and skin sale as follows: —There was a good attendance of buyers, and competition was keen, all lines offered being quitted. Prices, if anything, showed a slight improvement on list s ale. We quote : Wool fleece 8d to 9£d. bellies and pieces 7£d, and crutchings 7d. Sheepskins: Crossbred 83d, inferior crossbred 7£cl, quarter and half-wools 7d to 7fd, inferior 6£di to 63d, lambs 7£d to B£d, inferior and dead to 6£tl, pelts o£d. Tallow 23s 3d. Hides: Good cow 6 7-Bd, c.Uf 9d, and yearlings 7d.

MASTERTON STOCK SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— AVe ha da good yarding of both sheep and cattle at Sol way yesterday, which, we submitted to a large attendance of buyers. Competition mis keen, with the exception of forward wethers, but was hardly so animated as at last week's sale, and we passed in a few pens under the hammer, though we managed to quit mest of them aftewards. Forward wethers made up to 17s 6d, small do. 12s 4d, ewes in lamb 10s 3d, empty eweg 9a. 130 weaner calves on account of Messrs Percy Bros, brought £2 4 s 6d, while others sold from 16s to 30s, dairy heifers £3 to £5, 2f-year steers £3 12s 6cl .forward cows to £4 ss, three-quar-ter bred Holstein hull calve® £2 to £3. Messrs Dalgety and Co. report on their Solway sale as follows: —A medium entry of sheep and a good yarding of cattle were offered to a large attendance of buyers. Sheep were rather easier than hist sales report, but we had a good clearance at the following list of prices:—Small lambs 5s 6d to 6s 6d, medium black faced lambs Bs, good conditioned shorn lambs to 8s 7d, a-ged ewes 6s 6d, small 2-tooth wethers 12s 6d, fat and forward ewes to 12s 7d. Cattle: The bulk of this entry consisted of 18months and 2s-year steers, prices obtained being in favour of buyers. 18-months steers realised £3 7s Gd to £3 17s, 2-J-year steers t« £5, small mixed weaners to 355.

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