HIDE SALES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 May 1903, Page 13

HIDE SALES

Messrs. Stronach Bros, and Morris report as folWe held our fortnightly sale of hides on Thursday. April 30, when we submitted to au a\erage attendance of buyers a record catalogue of 657 hidei, yearlings and calfskins. This is the largest catalogue ever suV mitted in Dunedin. being 109 in excess of the previous record, and we think is also the largest offered by any firm in New Zealand. Competition for all offered was most • satisfactory, and the result was that for several lines we obtained very high prices. In ox hides we sold one weighing 741 bat Bgd (net return £2 8s lOd) and in cow hides one weighing 84tb at 6*d (net return £2 Is 8a). borne of our other prices were also very eratifvmg. as shown by the following list :— Ox hides • Two weighing 701 b, 8d ; seven. 661 b, 7id • four 721 b7d • "Vfr V 2 »^ 7d ' ce '.7 olt) ' 7d; one > 79tb,'6fd;' one', /■a \6\ 6| ,V °," c ' OIT) ' 6 * d : 21 - weighing from 60 to 701 b, t>S<l to ba. Cow hides : Two, weighing 601 b sfd • eight £i>!^' rH :*: * *°r\' 6 f )n ?' \ >|d ;26 ci &hing from 541 b to" (>2lb, sid to sd. Actual prices paid may be quoted aa follows—Prime ox hides, 6d to 7|d ; extra stout do. Cl t .°.? i f ! ' .. mm 7 edlum do ' 5d to s «d« d ; h Z ht a »d inferior do, 2%i\ to 4£d ; prime cow hides, 5d to ssd • extra good do, to 6^d ; medium do, 4d to 4£d • light and inferior do, 3fd to 3? d per 1b ; yearlings, 2s 30d to 4s 6d each , calfskins, 9d to 2s 7d each