HIDE AND SHEEPSKIN SALES

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1922, Page 9

HIDE AND SHEEPSKIN SALES

There was a good attendance of'buyer*, at the Wellington skin and hide .ealeaj yesterday. Prices for sheepskins "w-erei very firm with some advance, but hades! showed a decline of from id lo lj«i pan Ib, in the various grades. CalfiskhMi were in keen request at a slight ad-j vance. Prices were as follow. — Sheepskins.—Halfbred, 5Jd to' 8&H fine crossbred, 6|d to B^d; medium) coarse crossbred, 3^d to 6Jd; short tot half wools, 2d to 4^d; lambs, 2^d to Tdrti •dead and damaged crossbred, 3d to Sid's) inferior and badly damaged, Id to 2jcb£ pelte, Id to lid; damp, salted and g*<*n»j Is 6d to 3s 9d; lambs, salted,' It 64 to 3s. • ' I ' Hides.—Ox, heavy, 8d to Hid ,-■ «Em medium, 4d to 7|d; ox, light, 4sd ta 51A; cut, slippy, and inferior, 3fd -to^ 7|d; cow, heavy, s§d to 7id; <xm? w dium, 4d to 6|d; cow, light, 4Jd to-6}*j cut, slippy, and inferior, 2|d to Mfi bull, stag, 2£d to 3|d; ye«rlin«v.s|djj3 9d; calf, superior, 9id to I7d-; jjg medium good, 9£d to l6}d;.cat^jJhM aged, lid to 13d. ■• ' J Tallow.—ln casks, 21a-61-^BMH| in tins, etc., 17s to 19s. v^\ Horse hair, Is 6d. /