SKIN AND HIDE SALES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1923, Page 9

SKIN AND HIDE SALES

■-Wellington brokers ,liDld tliohvaisua fortnightly sale yesterday. ' Sheepskini were easy in price. Hides were "keenly competed for. Calfskins were down -£d per pound,on last sole rates. Tire official range of prices was as follows;— '

Sheepskins.~-Halfbred, 9£d to llfd; fine crossbred, 9gd to 12d; ; mediumcoarse crossbred, B£d to 9Jd; .short to 'half wools, 6d to B§d; lambs,; p|d! to 10|d-; dead and damaged^- crossbred 6d to 83d; inferior and badly damaged, lgd to 6|d,.; pelts, 23d to 7id; damp, salted, and'green, 4 S to 3s;~p.elts]''sa;]ted, Is 6d; lambs, salted, 3s 7d ti. 6s Sd." ,

Hides.—Ox heavy,' 591b up,-'7d- to lOd; ox, medium, 50-531b, 6d to'BJ"d;''ox, light, ,491b and under, 4^d to 6|d; cut. slippy, and inferior, 3£d to 7|d; cow, heavy,'sslb and over. 5d to'-7|d; cow, medium,' 42!' ito 541b. 4^l to 7|d; cow, light, under 421b, 4=d to si<3; cut, slippy and inferior, 2id to 4gd; bull. staK;..l|d to 3gd ; yearlings (111b to. 321^)^.3^, to 7|d ; calf", superior (up to 101b).jiii'-calf, medium-good (up to .lO]b),:.Sd:;to'.lldj calf, damaged (u)> to 101b), ,2d,,tq Bd.:r Tallow.—ln casks, 24s 6d tp 31ss"; r jn tins, etc.,-175.t0 27s,■■ ■■. ■ - t-.tV