WOOL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 14 November 1907, Page 17

WOOL

Sydney, November 12.— At the wool sales bidding was brisK, but values were lower than last week. Good wools showed a decline of from '£■% to 5 per cent., and faulties from 5 to 7 per centT • • Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Co. report :—: — Rabbitskins.— As sales are to be held fortnightly in future, there is nothing to report. Sheepskins.— We submitted a medium catalogue* today. Bidding was slightly brisker than at last week's sale, but prices, except for good half bred skins were much the same. Best halfbred sold' from 9-|d to 10£d;\ medium to good, 7^d to B£d ; best crossbred, 7d to 7|d ; medium to good, 6d to 7Jd ; inferior and medium) stuff brought from 4d to 5-Jd. Hides. — There has been no sale since last report. Tallow and Fat.— Prices ' still continue good for all coming forward. Best rendered tallow, 22s to 26s ; medium, 18s to 21s 6d ; inferior, 14s to 15s 6d ; best rough fat), 17s to 19s 6d ; medium, 14s 6d to 16s.

A- curious anomaly in tne hours of labor awarded by (he Arbltraxion Court was mentioned, according to the 'Napier Daily: Telegraph,' "by Mr. W. Ward at the Builders' Conference. Mr. "Ward stated that' in_his ' bit of a business' he was working under no less -than five different awards— carters, 18 hours, carpenters 47, machinists 4"6, plumbers 45, and painters 44. 'The Forestry Department's report states that over 18 millions of trees have b.een planted.' There is no precise information as to the dates when the trees will be lit for milling. Larch iind eucalypti are fre-< quently milled at from 30 to 50 years, whilst the general run of timber trees might be fit for irilling at from 50 to 100 years, or even later. -• -