COMMERCIAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 75, 25 March 1912, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, HIDES AND - ■■ T&LDOW SALE. , ';■

Th« New Zealand Ldiin and Mercantile Agency..Company,,Ltd., W«-jJ-Jington, repou-t as follows: —At our fortnightly sale on/ Friday we offered About 100 bales avool, a fair quantity of sheepskins, hides, oelfs'kinsi, and tallow. There w<as it large iittendanco -of -buyers, and a gtfod sale was exporienoed. Competition for wool was .kee.ii, in spite.of the coal strikes and ■>. unsettled stjite or,the wool market at 'Home.. Skins, hides, and calfskins -«oid well at level of -k\st sales. Wo.-quote:— . Wool:-Crossbred 6fd to Sd; lambg, : /good, 7-Jd to &d; la.mb.s, «eedy, 6fd to ;7-id; iambs, extra seedy, 4fd; pieces ■f4|d to Sjkd. '■.. - ■■■;.' ' Eia-bbitskins, to Is 2d per Ib. 'Sheepskins: .Ca-ossbred, fine, 6ld to '7ldj crossbred, .medium arid1 coaxse. '6id to 7dV]OJ-ossl)red, short wools, .^d ios§d; crossbred, -doajd and! broken, "3d to,!'.4|d:j•• laioab; skins s|d to 6|d; :green. and salted skins Is to: 3s 9d. Hides: Ox, heavy, 7^d to 8d; ox medium, 6|d to. 7d; ox, light, 6^d f> <6gd; cow 6Jd to 7|; faulty hides s£d •to 6fd!j calf, good,; 10Jd to ll|d; crii4' rnodium,-..S^aVto 10d; calf, damaged, 'SdL'to 6^d'; yearlings ,6|d to B|d; cowfeils Is 5d to'-la'7a pet dozen. ■ .Tallow: In saok« 26s to 28s 3s por. . <<rvvt.; in,tins '20s; to Ms:; fat 17s to /a&s., ,\:'. ••'-■■.■•■ •■•■•.'■.'■ * • ~-■" '■'•■