SALE OF SKINS
COMPETITION FOR HIDES
Competition was very keen for soundpelted sheepskin lines at the usual fortnightly salt! of hides and skins hqjd by HVellhigton. woolbrokers yesterday, but prices were Up to Mjd per 11) easier. There, was good demand for salted lines, mostly pelts and short wools,' which maintained the figures of the.last sale. There was keen competition for hides, ox hides showing an advance of l-8d per lb on all grades but lightweights. . Cowhides wer6 firm with a tendency to harden in price in heavy sorts. Kip, yearling, and.calf sold1 firm at the level of the last sale. The range of prices was as follows:— Hides.— .Ox, 331b to 441b, 3%d to s'/id per lb;, 451b to 521b, 4d to O&d; 531b to 591b.-3 3-8 d to f1.7-8d; 001b to .(591b, 5 7-Sd to Jd; 701b and over, .6(1 to 7d; cow, 331b to 301b, 3d to .5%4; 401b to 481b,. 4 3-8 d to 5 5-Sd;- 401b and over, 3 3-8 dto Od; kip, 251b to 321b, 3%d to 5 5-8 d; 171b to 241b,-'3%d to, 6%d; yearling, 111b to 161b,' Gd, to 7 7-8 d; calf, 01b to 101b, 3%d to 7 7-8 d; 61b to 81b, 5%d to 8 7-Sd; lib to 51b. 2d to B%d. ' , ' Sheepskins.^—Halfbredj'Sd to .10(1 per lb; fine crossbred, 6'/4d to O'/^d; medium, 6d to 8d; coarse, 4d to 7'/id; half wools, 4%d to 7%d; quarter wools, 3d to 4%d; pelts, : 2Kd to 4%d. • • • . ■ Tallow sold at late rates. In casks, 13s to 17s; in tins, etc., 8s to 12s.' Sundries.—Cow tails,'l3%d per ]b; horsehair, 15'/&d per lb.. , . ' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has received the following advice from its London house, December 15.—Sheepskins: Combing and clothing merino, 10 per cent. higher; combing and clothing, crossbred, 10 per cent, higher;' demand good. Pelts neglected. Quotations: SC-58's, all fullwoolled sound pelt's, HUd, ■ three-quarter 10d, half 9d;,.48-50's, full-woolled 9%d, three-quarter B%d, half 8d; 44-46's, fullwoolled "'Ad, three-quarter 6%d, half 6Vkl; 40's, full-woolled 6d, three-quarter 'SVzA, half 6(1, short and shorn 4%d to Wz&'.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 12
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345SALE OF SKINS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 12
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