WELLINGTON SKIN AND HIDE SALES.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12410, 27 November 1908, Page 4

WELLINGTON SKIN AND HIDE SALES.

Messrs E. Buxton.and Co., Ltd., f renort as follows on tne Wellington skin and hide sales held on Friday, 20fcb inst. :— - The usual numbers of buyera were io attendance, and there was keen competition for the different . lots' offered, prices ruling 'from 7d per lb for fine crossbred to 6%d for woolly hoggets and lambs. Prices on the whole were from to %d ■per lb above last week. The foliow- "■ ing is the list of prioea obtained :— vßheepskina.— Halfbreds, s>2 d to ,7i£d per lb; fine orossbrads, 6d to 7d ; medium and coarse, 5d to 6d ; lamWs, woolly s^d to 6%d ; lambs, short 3^dto s^d; crbssbreds, fallen ' pelt^ a^d to 4^d; crossbreds, mferior I%<A to 3^d. I Hides.— Ox, heavy 1 3 light 6^° t6 4d;.00w, light to mediumi S^ia. to 5Ud; damaged hides, 2d to 3J^d; calf, 2d to 7J4d. Tallow.— Tins. -19a 6d to 21s 6dpurewt; casks, ,22a to 23a 6d per' '■'■ CWt .•■ "' " :, - ';' : Owing to the next wool sale falling on 4tb December, there will be no ■- sheepskin sale till 18tu December.