WELLINGTON, WOOL SKINS, AND HIDES SALE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 7

WELLINGTON, WOOL SKINS, AND HIDES SALE.

f Messrs E: Button and C*,' Ltd., reiport on the usual fortnightly-sale hole! ;at AVellington on Friday last, as' under :—The' offerings submitted at the .■■ fortnichtly sale fcqmprisciil siTeepskTns 'and hides, woo! in bags ancl'fadges, y.ul oddments of tallow, etc. The^ale was \well attended, competition - being gen:cVal, and prices for wool ar.d jsheep- ' skills were quite on a par'with last -sale. jitiie no doubt to the lightioni^'r of t.'-v----■einbpa-go on export, the sale for Macs ['was remarkably, good, and prices .showed an advance of from l^cl to 2d ber-'lb. and compotitiou for all lines was keer. [and animated. The ' following is. tho ■range of prices:— ' : '"'.', I Sheepskins: Half-bred 10JiT:tp lid. crossbred fine 10Jd to lid, medium t« coarse lOd to IG.kl, short to halfrwooli' 6d to lO^d, CTossbrods dead and dam-; ropd firl in '9kl. infp.vinr and badly da.maged Id to 6Jd, lambs' 6id to ll}d. dampj salted, and green 4s 8d to 8s )Cd each, pelts- 6d to 2s 6d, ■ lambs ealted 3s to "6s. 7d. I Hides: Ox, heavy •12d, medium 11 l-8d to 12d, light 7|d to 10 7-8 d ; iw,' heavy 9d to 10^d, medium 94 to lid, I light 93d to 10-J-d, slippy and inferior 6d-to lOd, bull stag 6 3-8 dto 8 5-Bd. yearlings 8d to 10 7-8(1, en If super 10tl; to 12 : } d, medium to good 9d to lOd. damaged 6d to 9' : d. \ Tallow-: Casks 27s to 28s, tins K>° I Tho date of the next salo-is nve:l i.mthe 28th inst.