SHEEPSKINS, HIDES, AND TALLOW.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 130, 29 November 1926, Page 11

SHEEPSKINS, HIDES, AND TALLOW.

The Wellington brokers held their fortnightly sale of sheepskins, hides, and tallow un Friday, when they offered varying catalogues to the usual attendance of buyers. Sheepskins: Competition for good skins was keen, and prices were, If anything, a little firmer than last sales rates. On the other hand, inferior skins were hard to quit. Salteds sold at prices on a par with last sale. Hides: These were on a par with last sale, with the exception of heavy ox, for which there was no demand. Calfskins sold at'prices on a par with last sale. Tallow: This was firm at last sales prices. The following gives the range of prices realised:— Sheepskins: Half bred B%d to 13 _; fine crossbred, lid to 13% d; medium carcass crossbred, 9%d to ll^d; short half-wools, "d to 9%d; lambs, 8d to 12d; deam and damaged crossbred, 7d to 9d; Inferior and badly damaged, 2d to.7d; pelts, 4%d to 9d; damp, .salted, and green, 6s 6d to lis 9d; pelts, salted, 2s Id to 3s 9d; lambs, salted1, 2s 6d to 3s.

Hides: Ox, extra heavy, 7%d to 10_d; ox, heavy, 7%d to B%d; ox, medium, 7&d to 7%d; ox, light 6y 8 d to 6%d; cut. slippy, and inferior, 4Jd to 4Jd; cow, heavy, Od to C_d; cow, medium, 5%d to 6%d; cow, light, 6d to 6%d; cut, slippy, and inferior, 4Hd to 5%d; bull, stag, 3M.d; yearlings, RVsd to 8d; yearlings, heavy, iV 2 d to 8d; calf, superior, nil; calf, medium to good, 9_d to HV.d; calf, damaged, 2d to 9y_d.

Tallow: In .barrels, 29s to 325; in tins, etc. 16s to 295.

Sundries: Horsehair, 18d; cowtails, I3d.