COMMERCIAL

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

WOOL, SKIN, HIDE, AND TALL<3W SAIM

The .-New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Wellington, report:—A supplementary wool sale in conjunction with the ordinary fortnightly wool, skin, and hide sale was held on Friday, when the combined brokers offered about 1200 hales of wool besides the usual bag wool, skins, etc. There was a large- attendance of buyers, many 6i the oversea buyers operating; werev keen^ and coarse crossbred "sold ; at\ ■■.»••••• slight :• advance ■on last Dalies' rates. Good lamb wool was perhaps slightly lower, but medium seedy and inferior lots sold quite as well as the previous sale. The bulk of the wool offered was .of rather inferior quality, being mostly from the back country or late shorn heavy and seedy. Our top price was lO^d for several small lots of West Coast, South Island, radium wool,, and 10£ d .'for iy bales c ilomney wool from Wanganui. We obtained 10|d for lambs' r roo}n^ m,Palmerston North, and lOid to lOfd for late shorn lambs from Masterton. Bag wool was well competed tor, as also were skins and hides, Skins advanced on late sale 4CI per Ib, and hides were fd .to id We quote:—- . Wool: Crossbred, fine, lOd tolOfd: crossbred, medium, coarse, 9d .to lOad; pieces and bellies, 5d to 7d•locks and stained pieces; 4d to 5M • crutchings, medium, good, 7d to 7jd"-? I iTt S9d t0 Ud3 inferi°r crossbredM

Sheepskins: Half-bred, 9d- fine crossbred, Bid to 9d; medium, Varse crossbred 8d to B£d; . short & halfwoo s, 6id to 7£d; dead' and damaged^crossW 6Jd to 7*d; inferior and badly damaged, 4d to 6id; lanibs, 3s 9d to 4s lid; pelts, 6^d to 7d. ±lides: Ox, heavy, 9d to 9ld •ox TnV 8? tO 9l d °X ' %ht, 8d to M'tn^wl BJd *° 9d ' medium 83d to 9fd, light Bid to 9d: cut Sf;6^Sorf^ d nS; &£ . Tallow: In casks, 26s 6d to 27s 9d • m tins etc, 16s 6d to 23s 6d ' Sundries: Horsehair, Is 3d to Is hai, C?slt %£ *« ls ™-> cow-

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(preference), seller 635; Taringainutu Sawmills, buyer 45s 6d; Ross, buyer An 3di Taxmans, buyer 3.95. 3d, seller o/' J Yaihls > buyer 42s 9d» seller 43s da; >rrand Junctions, seller 25s 6d: Waitangis, buyer.ls. / .'