HIDE AND SKIN MARKET

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 58, 5 September 1914, Page 8

HIDE AND SKIN MARKET

WAR AND LOWER PRICES. The usual local skin and hide sales felt the full force of war prices yesterday. The attendance of buyers was good and an excellent clearance of all lines catalogued was effected. Nevertheless, there was a marked drop in prices all round attributable solely to the disturbance of the world's markets by the war. Hides were down l^d per pound. Sixty pound hides which brought ityd to 9^d per pound before the war, realised but bd, and this was a fall of '£d per pound since war broke out. For calf skins there was a decline of 2d to 2^d per pound. Dry sheepskins were not offered to any appreciable extent, but salted brought 5s to 5s 6d as against Bs, the ruling rate before the war. Tanners bought freely, and there was a certain amount of business done for export. The future of the skin and hide market is viewed in different ways by different authorities. Tallow dropped £4 per ton on pre-war rates. T.he official prices realised were as follow: — Ox,- heavy, 7d to B|d per 1b ; ox, medium, 6^d to 7fd ; ox, light, 6gd to 7-Jd : cow, heavy, 6]d to 7£d ; cow, medium, 6^d to 7£d ; cow, light, 6£d to 7d ; damaged and inferior, 4^d to 6^d ; bulls and stags, l^d to 4-|d ; calfskins, super, 8d to 9Jd ; medium 'to good, 6|d to 9d; inferior, 2d to 7id ss-tallow,-in5 s - tallow, -in casks, 20s to 23s 3d per cwt; in tins, etc., 15s to 19s 6d.