AUCKLAND HIDE SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18236, 1 November 1922, Page 7

AUCKLAND HIDE SALES.

RECENT RATES MAINTAINED. Prices for hide* at the Auokland hide and ] skin sales yesterday were equal to the j realised at last sale. The ueual bench of i buyers attended, and a. considerable amount of business was done. A few pickfld stout ox hides realised from U tg.la Id per lb. rtout ox 9d to lOd per lb, meditym 7id to Bd, light 6?d to 7id. Boat cow hid«« brought from 6id to 6id, iiecond grade und gut hides 4id to sid' nip and yearling hides, 83d. to lOd. There waija large offering of cajfakina. the best grades bringing from la Old to Is Id, cut and faulty (5d to 10jd.. TViftrft. was a- sharp riaj in eneopflkina, T>rices for which improved *by at least Id per lb One line of halfbred skins realised 91d per lb the hiijhost ,pric© ptud fit local since the requisition period. . Fine croeebred sound pelted fuU-woolled 9 km« brought up in 74d DOt lb. COWW to sjd. Full-woolled faulty pelted skina brojight up to 4id per lb. damaged to 81d, half-woolled sound pelted f,d, t'aulty id. damaged lid per lb, Sound pelts and aufter-woolled »kins realised from ,2ld to 3d lb, fruity poltfi Id to 2d. - In salted skins extra largo threeQuarter to full-woolled brought up to 6sjd each, large to 6a Bd, medium to 4s Bd, light from 2s 6d to !is 9d ea«h. Half to auarfoijwoolled skins broucht. froni IsSd to fa M. faulty and "partly dried; full-woolled skiiw 8s 8d to 4s 6d, half to threo-ciuarter-woolled Sta 3d to 3e, damaged three-quarter to fullwoolled le 6d to 2a 6d each. • v