SHEEPSKIN, HIDES, AND TALLOW SALE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 6 July 1921, Page 6

SHEEPSKIN, HIDES, AND TALLOW SALE.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercan-

tile Agency Co., Ltd., Wellington, report under date^July I:—The Wellington wool brokers held their usual sale to-day and submitted fairly large catalogues to a good bench of buyers. Competition was active for sheepskins, also for heavy hides and calfskins, but lower prices had to be accepted for medium weight hides. There was no demand for tallow. Sheepskins: Half bred 4Jd to sd, fine crossbred 3|d to 4f<L, medium to coarse crossbred Id to 4df. short to fcalf wodls Id to 4*d, lambs' 2|d to 4}d, •dead and damaged crossbred Id to 2sd, inferior and badly damaged Jd to lid, pelts Id to 4Jd, damp salted and green 2d to 3s 6d, pelts (salted) 2s, lambs' (salted) Is 6d" to 2s Bd. Hilles:, Ox heavy}, 591b up 6d to 15 1 d, ox medhim 50/58 as2d to 12d, ox .light 49 and^nder v 4jd to.sfd, cut, slippy and inferior ljd , to 9_d, «6w heavy 551b and over 4|d to V9|d, -cow medium 42/54 3d to 6£d, )pow light under.< 42 4|d to s§d. cut,-- slippy and inferior _d to s|d," bull staa Id to : / 3|d, yearlings 11/32 2|d to 10|d, caS superior up to 101b 16d tbM6_d, caw -medium to" good 13d to 15fd, calf dam\ ': * *ged Id to lOd. ' --J \ Dalgety and C 0.., LtdV;, report:—At our usual fortnightly sale of shepski^is* iides; and tallow this'afternobn we submitted a. fair catalogue of all descriptions 'to a full attendance of exporters and tenners. The general tone1 of the market wa? firmer andVshWed ah aft round improvement on the rates ruling -at last sale. ' Sheoskin»: Dry ' skin*' fully .appreciated by Id per lb, whi 1' salted skins showed a" further advance of 3d., 'Hides: Values generally improved by _d to Id per lb. Good conditioned heavy and medium weights reoeived most of the appreciation. For a line of super calf averaging 41b we Becured 16d per lb. There was no demand for tallow. Prices same as aboyeV Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd.,' report having received the- following cablegram from their London house under . {he 29th ultimo:—£heepekins: We'quote merino three-quarter to full-woolled 4£d to lid, merino quarter to fulbwoolled 2jd to Bd, short and shorn Id to 3\d, 'crossbred threequarter to full-woolled fine 4£d to Bd,' crossbred three-quarter to full-woolled medium and coarse 3d to sd, crossbred quarter to half-'woolled fine 4d to fid, orossbred quarter to • half-woolled medium, and coarse 2d tb'4o;, crossbred short and shorn l§d to 3|dr''hrwbs~"3d to 6d- Tallow: 143tf"casks* of tallow offered, 1350 casks sold. , Fin^ mut--ton 36s 6d, good 35s 6d; good'mixed, 36s 6dto 375; inferior; 30s; beef, 43s yd. Fine tallow mixed: We expect a rise m prices at, next sale, especially descriptions suitable for toilet soaps. More] confidence .generally-