SHEEPSKIN PRICES
QUARTERLY REVISION. SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, March 18. In accordance with the terms of the purchase agreement with the United Kingdom Government, a quarterly revision of sheepskin prices to allow for movements in world prices for pickled pelts has been effected. The New Zealand Sheepskin Control’s schedule of prices has been altered as from February 28 to the following: Full wools, sound pelt, all grades, 12jd to 131 d; three-quarter wools, sound pelts, all grades, to 12,3 d; half-wools, sound pelts, all grades, 10.‘,d to 11,id; quarter-wools, sound pelts, all grades, 83d to 93d; shearlings, sound pelts, all grades, 7jd to 81d; pelts, sound, all grades, 6d to 7Jd; hoggets, sound pelts, all grades, 113 d to 123 d; lambs, sound pelts, all grades, 12d to 133 d; second pelts, approximately, 2£d less than sound grades; badly damaged and dead skins, approximately l|d to 2d less than second pelted grades. Attention is drawn to the premium on sound and super-pelted skins. Farmers arc advised to pay particular attention to the taking off and drying of skins in order to obtain the benefit of the good prices now ruling.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1942, Page 6
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192SHEEPSKIN PRICES Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1942, Page 6
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