HIDES, SKINS, AND TALLOW.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 244, 12 October 1916, Page 9

HIDES, SKINS, AND TALLOW.

■ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile ■Agency Company, _lmited, report:—We submitted and sold.average catalogues o£ bides, I skins,. and tallow on Tuesday, competition being keen for ail lines offering. • Hides.—Market brisk. We quote:—Ox, I extra stout lid to UJd, stont 10id to 10} d, | medium 10d to luld. light 9*d to 9Jd; cows', best lines 9jd to lOd, good 9id to 9Jd, inferior gjd to Ssd; kips, under 451b, IOJd to 10+ d; calfskins, best to 13} d, good Hid to [J2id; cat and damaged, 6Jd to BJd; stags", old to 6Jd; damaged hides, 3"td to 71<L Sheepskins.—Market active. Best butchers' skins, picked 15/ to 16/11, good lines average 11/6 to 14/6, medium 8/6 to 9/6, small 4/6 to 7/6: shorn pelts, 2/10 to 3/4; spring lambs, 1/4 to 1/8; country dry and woolly skins, best lines lid to 12d per lb, good 9d to 104 d, inferior 7Jd to Sid, damaged 5d to 7d. - Tallow.—Market easier, —est mixed to 32/, good 27/6 to 29/6, .inferior 23/6 to 25/9; rough fat, 2d per lb. Bones, £5 10/. ■ Cowtails, 1/ dozen. v Horse— idr, 1/ to 1/S. Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons report having held their weekly sale of tildes, skins, wool, tallow, etc., at the Haymarket on Tuesday, quoting as under:— Hides.—Market very firm. Stout ox. lid to 311 d; good quality ox. ldd to 103 d; me—mn ox. IOJd to lOJd: light ox. 9sd to 10d: cow, best quality light weights 10Jd to 103 d, h„.vy-weights &Jd to lOd; kips, 10id to 10§d; stags'. 6Jd to SJd: farmers" lots of hides, Sjd to lOd; damaged, dirty, and insufficiently salted, at from 4id to 7*d per lb; yearlings, lOd to 10* d; calfsklns, best grades 13* dto 14d per lb, seconds lljd to 13d, dirty and meaty BJd to lOd, cut and damaged 44d to BJd; liorse hides, 6/6 to 18/ each, according to size. I Sheepskins.—Market brisk, with strong competition. Butchers' salted, extra Ltrge 116/3 to 17/1. large 14A to 15/11. medium I 9/11 to 12/. mnall 4/9 to 6/9; bare pelts, 3/ to 3/4: lambs'. 1/10 to 2/9; carefuUv-dried. sound-pelted. full-wooHed skins, llid to 113 d per lh: others, at from 9d to 10} d per lb: damaged and broken. 3d to 7d per lb; damaged pelts. 3d to 1/ each. , Wool.—Bright crossbred. 13dl to 13Jd: mixed crossbred.' 11id to T2d: rough and dingy. 104 dto lid; crutchings. lOd to 10|d for best. 9d to 9sd for medi—n and short; dead wool. Sid to 11Id; pieces, Sd to 9d; locks, s}d to 6d. • Tallow.—ln casks. 2S/ to 33/; in tins, 25/ to 30/ per cwt. ; Bones.—£s 15/ per ton, or 3/6 per cirt, in small lots. Horsehair.—l/ 6} to 1/S for tail. 1/4 to 1/5 for mixed and short, 9d to Old for mane. i