WOOL ODDMENTS, SHEEPSKINS AND HIDE SALE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 240, 11 May 1933, Page 8

WOOL ODDMENTS, SHEEPSKINS AND HIDE SALE

Prices showed a hardening tendency at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd S ratford monthly sale held on May 9 193., when they offered a cataogue com prising wool oddments, 231 hides, 10 tons tallow and 1376 sheepskins. Competition for all Ascriptions of sheepskins was keen, and, also there was keen bidding for hides. 1' or «.ne description of wool offered prices obtained showed little improvement. The following is the range of prices: Wool—Crossbred fleece, Id, 2d, 2M per lb.; Southdown fleece s|d per lb.; Crossbred lambs lid per lb Crossbred dead lid per lb., Crossbred crutchings U per lb., Crossbred pieces lid per lb., Crossbred locks and pieces id per lb. Hides, at per lb. and nett weights —Calfskins ,slipy, average 4£ lbs., 3 l-8d per lb., ditto cuts, average 41 lbs., 4d per lb.; ditto firsts, sound, average ih lbs., 5 5-Sd per lb.; ditto heavy, sound, average 7 to 10 lbs., 4?;d per lb.; kip, sound, average 25 lbs., 3 5-8 d per lb.; kip, cut and partly dry, average 22 lbs., 25-8 d; oxhides, sound, average 40 lbs., H ( l, 33d per lb.; oxhides, sound, average 521b5., 4d per lb. Settlers' cowhides, sound, average 34 lbs., 31d per 11). Abattoir cowhides, washed, sound, average 35 lbs.. 4gd per lb.; sound, average 25 lbs., 4'ld per lb.; cowhides, cut, average 31 lbs., 3|d per lb. Horsehide, sound, average 50 lbs., Id per lb. Tallow (in tins)—Bs Cd per cwt.

Sheepskins, salted at each —Crossbred woolly pelts, sound. Is; ditto, J wooled, sound, Is, Is Gd; \ woolled, torn and damaged. 3d; ditto .1 woolled, sound, Gd; ditto, double fleeced, sound, 2s; ditto, hoggfcts, sound, Gd; ditto lambs', sound, Is Id; ditto, lambs', damaged Id. Sheepskins, dry at per lb.—Crossbred, I woolled, damaged pelts, £d to lid; ditto, woolly pelts, sound, 2d; ditto, short to \ woolled, sound —; ditto, i woolled, sound, Id; ditto 1 woolled, sound, 2.]d, 2£d; ditto i woolled, damaged, l?d; ditto lull woolled, sound, 3Jd; ditto, full-wool-led, damaged, 2£d; ditto hoggets, sound, 3Jd; ditto hoggets, damaged, 2sdffi ditto, lambs', sound, 3£d; ditto lambs', lorn and damaged, 2id.