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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 140, 16 June 1913, Page 6

Tallow.—Firm. Parcels in ship- ; ping order, £28 ss; tins, £20 to; £25 ss; rough fat, £19.Horsehair. —Is to Is 9id per lb. Horns.—ss to 17s 3d per hundred. • Tails.--Is 8d per dozen. j > Hides sold well at last sale rates. We quote: Ox hides, heavy. B§d to S£d; ox hides, medium, B£d to Bfd; ox hides, light, 7Jd to 8d; cow hides. , Vid to 8d; cut and slippy hides, 6d to 7-id; stag and bull hides, s£d to 6id • yearlings, 6d to 7|d; calf, best, ' lid to 12d; calf, medium, 9£d to lid; i calf, out and slippy, 6d to 9%d; horse : hides, heavy, 8s 6d to 12s 6d; horse hides, light, 5s to 9s. j

i The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile I Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows: : : \ —There was a large attendance of ; ' buyers from all parts of New Zealand at our sale on Friday, the attraction \ being the holding of the first big t crutching sale of the season. We ! ' offered about 100 bales of crutchings ; .a,nd fleece, and a fair-sized catalogue ; jof skins, hides, and tallow. Buyers^ \ keenly competed for crutchings, and < \ record prices were established, any- J ;; thing extra good readily fetching B|d j ;to 9d per lb. All other produce was } in good demand and sold at rates | fairly equal to last sales. We quote: j -. Wool.—Crossbred fleece stragglers, j 8-H to 10^-d; lambs' wool, medium, i ,8d to lOd; locks, 4d to sid; pieces, j second, £d to 6d; crutchings. super. | B^d to 9d; crutclaings, medium, 7|d J :: to Bjd; crutchings, seedy, s^d to 7^d. ] [. Sheepskins.—Crossbred, fine, 83d ; :to 9d; crossbred, medium, B}d to Bfd; } ' crossbred, coarse, 7gd to Bsd; .lambs, j 8d to BJd; broken and dead, s^d to ! : 7^d; pelts to half-wools, 6£d to Bd. | ! Hides.—-Ox. heavy, BJd to 9d;, ox, | medium and light, 7|d to B^d; cow, j 7id to 8d; damaged, 6d to 7Jd; calf. | sound, lOd to 12d; calf, damaged,! : sid to 9Jd.

Tallow.—2Bs per cwt. i Fat, in tins. 22s to 25s 9d per cwt. i i : i