SKIN AND HIDE SALES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 8

SKIN AND HIDE SALES

DRY SKINS AND KIPS ADVANCE.

Local brokers held their usual fortniglitly sales in Wellington yesterday. Competition was generally keen, the buying strength being'greater than usual. Dry skins were id to id be#er than last sale, _ inferior were hard to sell. Heavy ox hides were easier, lights and medium on a par with last sale; kips and yearlings were up by £d to Id per pound. Prices w«re as follow.— '■. >.

. Skins — Haßbred, 5d to Bid; fine crossbred, s§d to 8d; medium coarse crossbred, 3£d to 6d; short to half-wools, Id to s£d; lambs, Id to 6^d; dead and damaged crossbred, Id to sd; inferior and badly damaged ,^d to 2|d; pelts, £d to Id; damp, salted, and green, Is to 4s Sd; lambs, salted, Is 6d to 3s 9dl ;

Hides. — Ox, extra heavy, 801b, lOgdj .ox,' heavy, 591h lip, 6£d to 10£ d; os, medium, 50-58Ux, 6d to 7id; os, light, 491b and nncler, 4£d to 6^dj cat, slippy, and inferior, 2|d to 8d; cow, heayy, 551b and over, s§d to 7d; cow, medium,' 421b to 541b, 5d to sgd; cow, light, under 421b,. 5d to 6dj cut, slippy, and inferior, 2£d to s£d; bull, stag, Id to 3Jd; yearling, 111b to 321b, 6d to 9d; calf, superior, up to 101b, 16 Id to 17fd; calf, medium;good, up to 101b, 15|d to 17£ d; calf, damaged, up to 101b, l£d to 14£ d.

Tallow.—Better demand at an advance on late rates of from 6d to Is per cwt, in casks, 24s to 25s 6d;iin tins, etc., 19s to 245. Horse hair, 18d to 19Jd.