IN SLACK DEMAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 8

IN SLACK DEMAND

SHEEPSKINS IN DUNEDIN

(\iy Telegraph — Ties* Association.)

DUNEDIN, September 7,

At the fortnightly sheepskin sale today the demand was slack and there was a general decline in prices of Id per pound. Following is the official range o£ prices:—Fine .halfbred, to 16Jd; halfbred, full wool, to 16id; halfbred, three-quarter-wool, to 15d; halfbred, halfwool, to 13£ d; halfbred, quarter wool, to 12£ d. Fine crossbred, full-woo], to 153 d; fine crossbred, three-quarter-wool, 15£ - fine crossbred, half-wool, to 13^d. Crossbred, full-wool, to 15Jd; crossbred, three-quarter wool1, to- 14£ d; crossbred, half-wool,'to'l2i]d; crossbred, quarterwool; to Hid; Halfbred hogget, 15d; fine crossbred 'hogget, to 14Jd; crossbred hogget, to 14Jd; crossbred hogget, 14id., Halfbred, dead, 14Jd to 15d'; fine crossbred, 123 dto I3jd; crossbred, 12£ d. 'First pelts, to 9d; second pelts, to 6Jd; third pelts; to 3id. On these prices values per skin may be taken as follows:—Halfbred, full-wool, to 13s 6d; fine crossbred, full-wool, ,tb 12s 6d; crossbred, full-wool, to 12s sd; halfbred, three-quarter-wool, to 10s; fine crossbred, three-quarter-wool; ■to 9s; crossbred, three-quarter-wool, to 9s 4d; halfbred, half-wool, to1 :6s lOd; fine crossbred, half-wool, to 6s lOd; fine crossbred, half-wool, to 7s 8d; crossbred, half-wool, to 6s sd; halfbred, quarterwool, to ss; fine crossbred, quarter-wool, to 4s lOd; crossbred, quarter-wool, to 4s Bd.