HIDE AND SKIN SALES
The ■ fortnightly sale of hides, skins, and tallow, was held yesterday by the combined.Wellington brokers.. There was the -usual bench of buyers operating. The total offering was 12,900 sheepskins and 17pO hides and calfskins. In sympathy with^the wool market, • values generally for sheepskins were somewhat lower than the: prices current at the last sales held here.vHeavy.lrideg were'%d to %d higher and;; lights %d: to %d lower. 'Light'and medium os hides were easier by %d to %d.. Heavy.hides were %d to %& dearer. Kip and' yearling were about on-a par. Trith last: sale, but calfskins were about %d lower, The range of prices was:— / v. , Dry Sheepskins.—These were %d to %d lower. Halfbred, 4%d- toS%d; fine crossbred,*4d; to 494 d; medium crossbred, 29id to 3%d;r coarse crossbred, 2%d to 3d; half wools, 134 d to 3%d; quarter wools, l%d to 2%d; pelts, l%d to 2ftd. Salted Skins.—Pelts, 4d to lOd; quarter wooky 6d to Is; half wools, ,7d to Is 4d; lambs, Is 3d to Is sd. • Hides.—Ox, 331b to 441b, 3 l-8d to sdox, 451b to 521b, il-8d to sd; ox, 531b to 591b, 3d.to sd; ox, 601b to 691b, 4d to 6%d; ox, 701b and over, 4%d to 6 3-8 d; cow, 331b to 391b, 3%d to sd; cow, 401b to 481b, 31-8 dto sd; cow, 491b and over, 4d to 5%d; kip, 251b to 321b, 3d to 4%d; kip, 171b to 241b, Id to 61-8 d; yearling, 111b to 161b, Id-to 6 3-8 d; calf, 91b to Mb, 3%' d to 6 3-8 d; calf, 61b to 81b, 4%d to 6%d; calf, lib.to 51b, 2d to 6%d. Tallow.—ln casks, 8s to 17s 6d; in tins, etc., 9s to lls 6d. Sundries.—Horsehair. IQ^d. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 3
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287HIDE AND SKIN SALES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 3
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