SHEEPSKINS AND HIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 190, 14 August 1933, Page 4

SHEEPSKINS AND HIDES.

WELLINGTON MARKET. Prices of sheepskins and hides were easier at the fortnightly sale held on Friday by the Wellington brokers. The offering of sheepskins was a large . one, and included some very attractive parcels of halfbreds and. fine crossbreds. There was a good offering of hides, which were lower as a result of the unsteady market overseas. Competition generally ' was good. - Sheepskins, for sound pelted lots, were a halfpenny lower, damaged and faulty sorts declining up to throe-farthings per lb. In hides, heavy and medium ox showed . a decline of a farthing, light-weight ox , and all grades of cow hides were three- j eighths of a penny and occasionally a half- ■ penny easier. Kip and yearling declined '. fully a penny, while calf were firm at last sale's prices. Weights of G/Slb on calfskins sold from lOd to 12'Tid, and l/51b at 6%d to 12% d. LONDON SALES. ' LONDON, August 12. • At the London hides sales to-day the market was dull. Quotations are: —Meat works—Dry salted: Queensland, 35-451b, OMid; 30-401b, 6%d; 25-351b, o%d; 20-301b, 6d. New South Wales, 6%d, 6%d, 6%, and 6%. Wet salted: Queensland, 30-691b, 3%d; 40-oOlb, 4%d. New South Wales, 5%d and S'/id; Victorian abattoirs, 5d and 4%d.