HIDES AND SKINS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 12

HIDES AND SKINS

PALMERSTON NORTH SALE

Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Palmerston North, report on their monthly auction sale of wool, sheepskins, hides, and tallow, held on Thursday, as follows: —A large catalogue was offered to a full bench of buyers, when competition was keen for suitable lots. In the main values were easier than at our sale of last month. Wool: Values generally were £d lower. For sheepskins there was an easing in values of id per lb. Cow hides were on a par to id easier, while ox hides were down id. Calfskins were easier l-8d to id per lb. The tallow market was easier by 20s per ton. The following is the range of values: —Wool: Crossbred, 7d to 7fd; hoggets, 7id to 7fd; dead, 6d to 7d; crutchings, 5M to 6£d; locks and pieces, 3£d to 4Jd. Sheepskins: Fine first, 8d to B£d; fine hoggets, 7£d to 8d; hoggets, 7d to 7Jd; three-quarter-wools, 8d to B£d; quarter-half-wools, 7d to BJd; crossbred damaged, s£d to 7d; lambs, 6d to 7d; pelts, 3d to 3Jd; dead, 6}d- to 6£d. Hides: Ox, heavy 5 5-8 dto 6 5-Bd, light 4£d to 5 l-8d; cow, heavy 4£d to 4 7-Bd, medium 4£d to 4 5-Bd, light 4£d to 4£-d; yearlings, 7d to B£d; calf, light first 9 l-8d to 9 3-Bd, light second B£d to 9d, cut 7id to 7 5-Bd. Tallow: In drums, first, 12s 6d to 14s 6d a cwt; in tins, first, 8s to 10s.