WOOL, TALLOW AND SKIN SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 858, 2 July 1910, Page 7

WOOL, TALLOW AND SKIN SALES.

+ Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their fortnightly sale of wool, skins, hides, and tallow yesterday afternoon. Good catalogues were offered to a large attendance of buyers. Prices all round showed a falling off as compared with late sales. Wood.—The market lor wool and erutchings showed a decline of from id. to 3d. per lb.. Wo quote: Medium crossbred, 7Jd. to 7*d.; good erutchings, to 6£d.; inferi6r do., 4?d. to 51d.; pieces, 5Jd.; locks, 4d. Sheepskins: In sympathy with the fall in price of wool, sheepskins also showed a declinc on late rates. We quote: Half-bred, 83d.; crossbred, good, 73t1. to Bid.; crossbred medium, 64a. to yjd.j half-wools, G*d. to 7d.; pelts, 2d. to 4:Ju.; butchers' green, 6s. to 6s. Gd.; do., damp, 3s. lOd. to bs. 2d. Hides; These snowed a falling off as compared with recent quotations of id. to ijd. per ib. We quote—Ox, heavy, 6gd.j medium, fid. to ogd.; cow, medium, sd. to G£d.; bull, s£d. to S.ftl.; horse, 9s. 3d. to lis. each; calf, Kd. to 9jjd.; do., cut and inferior, 43d. to 6d. Tallow: In shipping order—none offering; • n tins and barrels, 225. 9d. to 225. 3d.; horse oil, 4s. per drum. Kabbitskius, Is. 3d. per lb.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their sale ay followsWe oli'ered a good catalogue, comprising 30 bales wool, 15tu skins, and 2CO hides and sundries, to a largo attendance of buyers. There was only _ a moderate selection of crutcliings oiienng, and prices were slightly easier, whilst hides showed a fall in value to tho extent of Jul. per lb. Skins were on a par with last sale. We quote:—Wool: ltough crossbred, 7*d. to 7Ad.; medium crutchmss, heavy condition, sld. to 6(1.; lambs, locks, 4d. Skins: Bough crossbred,71d.; half-wools, coarse, 6ijd. to 7i*d.; medium, 7Jd.; dead, 53d.; short and inferior, 2Jd. to 4J.; pelts, 4Jd.; butchers' half-dry and green heavy, 7s. 2d. to 7s. 4d. ; medium, 6s. to 6s. Bd.; light, ss. 7d. to ss. ICd.; lambs', 4s. 6d.; ■ shorn lambs', 2s. Bd. llides: Ox hides, heavy, 63d.; medium ox, Gjd.; cows, light, 6gd.; medium cows, 63d.; bull, 5.H1.; cut and slippy, 4Jd. to 5Jd.; calf, 83d. to 82d.; damaged, 4ijd. to 6d. Tallow: 111 shipping order, 275. to 275. 6d. ; tins, 235. Market easier. Horse hair, Is. 6d.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows:— Tliere was a good attendance of buyers at our sale yesterday. . We oli'ered about 50 bales of wool* about 2G(iO skins, aud also hides and; tallow. Crutchings were about ad. lu.; hides, from id. to «u., and tallow about 10s. lower; sheepskins and lleece wool about on level of lust sales. We quote:—Wool: Half bred, inferior, yd. per lo.; crossbred, inferior, 7d. to Bd. per lb.; crossbred, stragglers, 6d. to Gid. per lb.; crutchingg, medium, s}d, to o*d. per lb.; crutohings, inferior and seedy, Ad. to lid. per lb. Skins: Full-wooled, coarse, Yd. to Vid..; quarter to half-wooia, 5Jd. to 7*d.; dead and broken, sd. to 0d:; lambskins, woolly, 7d. to Vid.; lambskins, shorn, flija. to 6a.; green and salted-skins, 3s. to bs. Id. each. Hides: Cow arid light ox,- sgii. to 6}d. per lb.; faulty hides, Aid. to sild.; calf, sound, %i. to vid.; calf, faulty, ia. to &£d. Tallow: In tins, 235. to 235. Gd. ner

Messrs. Levin and Compauy, Limited, report;—We held our fortnigntly sale yestorday, Mvhen we offered 9u baiea of wool, 2800 sheepskins, 300 hides and calfskins, and a Quantity of tallow and horsehair. There was a good attendance of buyers. Wool: Competition wa3 good, any clean crutchings being keenly competed for, but dingy lots were rather weaker. We quote:—Fine crossbred, 9di to lled.; coarse crossbred, 7Jd. to lambs' wool, 7£d. to 9d.; pieces and bellies, 4Jd. to 6d.; locks, 2*d. to 4Jd.; crutchings, 4d. to 7jcl Skins: Dry skins were about a farthing per. lb. under recent prices, but green skins sold up to full value. We quote:— Fine crossbreds, Bd. to B*d.; mecuum crossbreds, 7d. to Bd.; eoarso erossbreda. Gd. to 7£d.; hogget skins, 6d. to 6id.; dead •skins, 4d. to 6id.; dead hoggets, sd. to 6d.; lamb sklnsi 53d. to 7Ad.; quartor to halfwools, 4d. .to 7id.; dry pelts, . 2£d. to 6c1.; green skins, 3s. Gd. to 7a. Yd.; lamb pelts, 2s. 3d. to 4s. 3d. Tallow: Sliows a slight drop, in sympathy with London. .Parcels in shipping order, £27 10s. Tins, £20 to £23. Round fat, £10 to £16. Horse-hair: Is. to Is. Id. per )b. Horns; ss. to l&n. hundred. Cowtails: Is. fid. per dozen. Hides: Hides were again down, oversea markets giving no encouragement. Calf also showed a decline of id. to 3d. per lb. Wo quote :-Ox hides (heavy), Gild, to 7d.; ox hides (medium), 6id. to 63d.: ox ! u , (lig'lit), 6d, to 6£d.; cow hides, s£d. to ogd*; out and slippy hides, 3d. to 5d.« stag hides, 4d. to 58d.; bull hides, 4d. to 5Jd.; yearlings, sd. to Gd.; calf, best. 9d. to 9id.s calf, medium, 7>.d. to S*.: calf cut and slippy, j sd. to 53d.

Messrs. Murray, Jioberts and Co.. Ltd.,' : i * c submitted a catalogue of about 100 bales wool, 3200 sheepskins, and 300 macs to a representative attendauce of buyers. Competition was hardly so keen as at last sale, and both crutchings and hides showed an easier market, boing Jully a farthing lower than last week. 1 hero were, however, no superior lots of crutchings shown in our catalogue. Sheepskins maintained their prices, with the exception of green lots, which were a triiie easier. We quote prices as below:—Wool' Crossbred fleece, seedy and heavy, 7(1, to Ba. per lb.; crutchings, medium, 6d. to 63d ?i C 7 r „ crutchings, heavy* and inferior, ■1". t? 6W. per lb.; pieces, etc., 3d. to ttd. per lb. Skins: Crossbred flno half-wools, /id. to 81d. pei l lb.; crossbreds, 61d. to 7&d. per lb.; short wool 6, 6d. to 63d. per lb.; crossbreds, inferior pelts, 4d. to 63d per lb.; crossbreds, badly damaged, zidi to 43d. per lb.; lambs, 7Jd. to Sid. per lb.; lambs, short to half-wools, 6Jd. to W- Per, Jo-: lambs, damaged and inferior, 3d. to ssd.5 s d. per lb.; green, damp and salted skins, 3s. to 6s. lid. each. Hides: Ox, medium heavy, 6Jd. to 6Jd. per 11).; ox, li-ht medium, fijd. to 6gd. per lb.; cows, good, 6d. to 6 B d. per 11).; damaged hides, 33d. to ll),: calf ' sound, 85d. to 93d. per lb.; calf, cut and slippy, 4>,d. to 7d. por lb fallow: In casks, 275. to 275. 6d. per cwt.m tins, 21s. to 245. 3d. per cwt.