HIDE AND SKINS REPORT.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12770, 16 April 1910, Page 1

HIDE AND SKINS REPORT.

. Messrs Bisley Bros, and Co. have received the following report from their London agents, Messrs Dalgety and Co., Limited, under date of Friday last: — We offered a large catalogue of wool, skins and hides to a good attendance of -buyers. Prices for wool and skins were firm at last sale's rates, but hides were slightly easier. We quote : Wool. — Medium crossbreds BJd to 9d; ccarse crossbred, 7Jd to BJd; lambs, 73d to- BJd ; bellies, 5f dto 64<1 j pieces," 6fd ; locks, 4Jd ; crutchiiigs, 6d to 52d. 1. Skins. — Half-bred, 9jd; medium crossbred, 7fd to B§d ; coarse crossbred, 6Jd to 7d; lambs, 6}d to 7jd; dead, 6d to 6£d; crossbred shorts, s£d lib 6jd; crossbred half wool pelts, 3|d Ito 5Jd ; dead and broken. 6*d to 6fd ; crossbred, damp, 2s lOd to 4s 2d ; lambs, damp, 3s 4d to 4s ; pelts, damp 2s 2d: lamb pelts, damp, Is 6d. ffldes.— Ox, Qi to 701 b, 7d to 7fd; 50 to 631 b, 6Jd to 6ld; 431bs, s|d; cow, 50 to 601 b, 6|d to 6|d ; 40 to 531 b '6d: to 6|d; calfskins, B|d to 9Jd; (horse hides, Bs. _ Tallow, in shipping order, £24 to ' £27 per ton j in tins,, 22s 3d per cwt.