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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 221, 17 September 1919, Page 5

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HIDES, AND TALLOW MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, L<td.. report:— We submitted and sold large catalogues of bides, tallow, etc., on Tuesday. We i quote:— I Hides.—Market firm. Ox, extra stout 13d to 14d, stout 12d to 12Jd, medium I+d to I UJd, Hunt 103 dto lid: cows, best lines lid, good IOJd to lOjd, inferior 9*d to 10d; stab's, Bid to IOd; horse bides. S/ to 1">/----kips. lOd to 12d; calfskins, best to 18d. coort 14d to 16d. inferior 12d to 13d. cut ami ' duni-.iec-d 7*d to lid; damaged hides. CJd to 9Jd. " I Tallow. —Best mixed to co/. good 40/ to ' 50/, inferior U2/ to 37/G: roueh fat. 3d per lb. Boues. £8 5/. Cowtalls, 1/ dozen Horse lialr, 1/ to I/O per Hi. TAEROA STOCK SALE PAEROA, Monday. At Daljrety and Company's stock sale, which was held in their yards at Paeroa ™ Monday, there was a fairly good yarding. The quality offered was In most cases in a very backward condition, which resulted in nn all round decline in prices from late rates. There was a good attendance of buyers, but the bidding, which was by no means brisk, resulted In several lots lirinp passed in. Dairy cows realised from £10 R/ to £14 10/, poorer sorts, from £5 2/6 to £8 10/; dairy heifers, from £11 to £12 10/; | empty cows, from £S !)/ to £13 6/: two-year- j old bullocks, medium quality, up to £10 10/; yearling mixed sexes, from £2 10/ to £4 ! !)/. There was little or no demand for i store cuttle, aud In most instances wers ', nassed in. There was no prime fat beef I offered, consequently butchers and dealers had to procure their supplies from secondKrade quality. There was a few entries of piss, but they were also in poor demand, and falline to realise the vendors' reserve iv most cases remained unsold.

r,AL_IERSTOX STOCK SALIE. Messrs. AlirahaTn and Williams, ltd., report thai at Palmerston NVrrth on the llfch ' hist. we had a small yarding of sh-eep audi a fair **ntiT of cattile. We quote: Fat ewes _2/fl: forward ewes 25/, sprlnir.mr _e?f_r_ £8 0,/ _o £8 10/. heifers at drop £17, spritvulnc cows £_ 12/ Cto £15. cows tn mll_ £0 10/. store «ivrs £1 12/0 to £!*> 17/fl, cows and calf £7 7/0, weaner heifers 30/. WOOL, TALLOW, ETC. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co. renort: —Our I_ondon office cabled on S-epteirfher 12 as follows:—"New *_»al..*iil wool: Merinos, fine and medium crossbreds, firm. iine__u:*ed: coarse, onlet. Tallowl. Declined: tm_tr__ 2/ to ::/. beef 1/ to :./. mi„pd 4/. Blue Prussian peas, easier. Maple peas, unchanged. Oats, unchanged."