WOOL AND SKIN SALE

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 120, 19 May 1909, Page 5

WOOL AND SKIN SALE

Dalgety and Company, Limited, report on their monthly wool and skin sale held yesterday, when they offered 1000 skins, 11 bales and 20 bags of wool, 30 hides, 11 casks fat, quantity of bag and tin fat, also quantity horse-hair and rabbitskins.

The attendance, of buyers was even larger than usual, they being all out for business. Bidding was spirited, values were in sympathy with London prices, -arid were considerably higher than those of last sale, and ruled as follows:— Wool: Half-bred fleece Bid to B|d, pieces s|d, crutchings 4d to s£d. Black wool 4fd, locks 2d. Skins: Half-bred full wool 9d, merino full wool 7d, lambs' 7|d, halfwool crossbred 6£d, halfbred halfwools 7£d, shorts 4d to s£d, pelts 8d to Is 4d. Butchers' green 3s 7d to 4s. Green lambs' 2s 6d. Hides: 3d to sfd for butchers'. Horse-hair: Is 5d per lb. Rabbitskins: Summer's 9d.

Rendered fat in tins 17s 6d, in casks, shipping order, £22 15s per ton. Rough fat 12s 9a. Our next sale will be held on June 29th.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report holding their usual monthly wool and, skin sale yesterday, when they offered a large and attractive catalogue of bale and bag wool, sheepskins, hides, tallow and sundries. ' Their catalogue, was responded to by a full bench of local and foreign buyers, and every lot was cleared under the hammer. Buyers were in good fettle, and prices showed an all-round advance in lieeping with other centres. They _ quote prices realised for their offering 'as Bale Wool: Crossbreds 5H to 7d, lambs' Bd. i< • . ' • Bag Wool: Crutchings 2|d to 3£d, locks and pieces 2J-d to 3id, bellies and pieces 3sd to 4d,: black 4fd, fleece 4£d to 7d. ■■.'', Sheepskins: Half bred* sjd to: 7id per lb, merino 7£d, crossbred, fine 6£d to 7|d, medium 5Jd to 7d per lb. Batchers'; damp 3g 6d. to 4s 6d each. Torn 4d to 4id per lb. Black 3s 4d each. Dead ..and damaged 2s to 3s each. '", • ?- Lambskins: 5d to 61d per lb'. Rabbitskins: 7d per lb. Goatskins: 6d each., , Hides: Ox s|d to 6|d per lb, cut 4£d, slipy to '4id ; per lb. Cow s|d to s|d per lb, dry/, 4d *per lb. Calfskins: 6Jd per' lb, dry Is 6d each. •'".*■.'. . Horsehair: Is 4d per lb. Tallow: In shipping order, £22 10s per ton, in 'uns los to 17s 6d per cwt., inferior 10s 3d per cwt; rough, in bags 12s 9d to. 13s 9d pc; cwt..' . -, The Company's next sale will be held on Tuesday, 29th June: Lots for this sale may be delivered into the Company's store at any time that suits owners' convenience up to 1 p.m. on Saturday, ,26th June. ,