HIDE & SHEEPSKIN SALE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 50, 28 August 1922, Page 3

HIDE & SHEEPSKIN SALE

Wellington brokers, held theibltnightly hides and sheepskins sales last Friday. ;. Bidding was not keen, prices for dry skins ■ declining a Halfpenny per lb. ■ Sallied maintained last sale prices. ■ Hides .'said at par with last "sale's prices, -which were; fairly lyell '"maintained; icalfskin* ,weT» a penny per lb, easier; yearlings/ and kips:a farting per lb down. Th«. following are the:prices current 'at the ■'sale'";—, ■•■'.,'■ ■ ■■'. ' ; '•'• -.''•.: ■:■■ ' ,' ■ ■ 1

Sheepskin*.—Halfbred,, 4id to 7jd; fine crossbred,'4Jd to ;7d; medium coarse crossbred, 3d to '54d;. short to half Wools, lid to 3id; lambs, 2d to SJd; dead and damaged crossbred, Id to 4|d; inferior and .badly damaged, id to 24d; pelts, Id; damp, salted, arid green, Is to,4s 8d; lambs, salted, lid to 4s 4d: . ■ " :

Hides)—Ox, heavy, , 8$ to lOd; ox, medium, 6id to B|d; ox, light, 6gd to 7|d; cut, slippy, and inferior, 3d to 7d; cow, heavy 6|d. to 7|d; cow, medium, 6-} dto i\i; cow, light, sfd to 75d; cut, slippy, a,nd inferior, 3^i to 6Jcr; bull, Rtng,'2Jd to-4d; yearlings; 4|d to B^d; call, superior, 12d to 14^5; calf, medium to good, il^d to Md; calf, damaged, 2d to 9d. . V : '.. ■.•.•';,

Tallow.—ln casks, 22s to 235; tins, etc., 17s Gd to 21b 6d. Hojsehair, 15£ d to.2H , ■. ■■: "' - ■■■■:■■.■ ■ .-.