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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13525, 6 November 1911, Page 3

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’ SHEEPSKINS HIDES 'AND TALLOW • FORTNIGHTLY SALE. The New Zealand Loan and-Mercantile’ Agency Co.. Ltd., report as follows: There was! a good attendance of buyers at to-day's sale. Competition was keen for good hides at. the level of last sales, but damaged hides were rather lower. .Calfskins were in good demand at higher rates. Sheepskins of good quality were a shade lower than recent rates, whilst dam-, skins wore ’.lowgr.by Jd to per lb. .'Wo quote:— ' ... , Sheepskins.—Crossbred fine 6sd„-to 6ffd per lb, medium s|d to 6d, coarse 5d to short wools 3td to 4d, dead-4d td sd, damaged and .broken Id: to 3id, green skins 3s lOd to 6s 6d each.. Hides.—Ox - medium and light 6}d to 6Sd. per lb, cow y sld to 6jfd, faulty hides 3-Jd. to .4-Jd ; ■ calfskins, sound bestSJd to S|d, sound seconds 7d to Bd, damaged 2d to Cd, yearlings 6fd to 7d. Tallow'.—ln tins 18s 6d to 23s Gd per cwt.; rough fat 19s per cwt. Wellington, 1 November .3, jgs===.'.S-.l'. -