WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9168, 17 August 1908, Page 3

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Messrs Levin and Co. Ltd., report as follows regarding Friday's sale: -—We offered 30 bales wool, 2,000 skins, 650 hides, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. Wool—The market was quiet, but prices on a par with those of last salo. We quote: Medium crossbred, 4:1 to inferior, 2d to 4d; lambs wool, 4d to sd; pieces and locks, Id to 2d: good crutchings, 3|d to 4d; mediumcn.it-. chings, 3d to 3£d; seedy an;! inferior, ljd to 2il Skins- - Market firm at last sale rates. We q.inte s Fine cro3sbreds, 4d to sgd; c ossbred, 4d to 4Jd; dead skins, ud to 3&d; dead hoggets, 2d to 3};!- dry pelts, Id to 3d; lambskins, 3J to sd; , green pelts, 2* 6d to 4s Id; given Jambs, woolly, 2s to 3slod; green lamb pelta, Is 6d to 2s 6d. Tallow Firm. Parcels in shipping order, .£23; tins, £lB to £2l 10s; rou;'h,fat, £lO to £l3. Horsehair—ls to Is 3d ■per lb. Horns—ss to 17s (J i per hundred. Cowtails —Is 4d to Is 8d - *>er do/.en. Hides—Better ik-mand, though prices are scarcely qu -higher. We quote: Ox hides, heavy, sid to s|d; ox hides, medium, 5;1 to s£d; ox hides, 4cl to 4j}d; cow ih'idjs, 3sd to 4d; cut and slippy iiid.'S, 2d to 3Jd; stag hides, 2gd to 3.1; bull hides, 2d to 3d; calf, best, 4 1 to 6d; calf, cut and slippy, 21 to I. Our npxt sale will b.; li.dJ o;i ,4'\':day, August 23th. The New"Zaaland I#oan an.! Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows: -Oar fortnightly sale was held on Friday, when we offered a fair sized catalogue of wool, hides n'id sheep skins. Competition was g}r>j for all lines, but prices for skins were a little easier than at last sale, whilst seedy crutchings were lower by n halfpenny to three farthinj: s ipe:lb. There was a gool demand for hides at late rate 3. We quote: Wool—Medium crutchings, 2Jd to 3:1 per lb; seedy and inferior crutchings, Id to 2)»d; crossbred fleece, in bags, 3d to 4d; medium and inferior limbs, 3JI to 4d. Sheapskins j Crossbred coarse, 3id to 4|d; crossbred, fine, 4J to s^d; pe!ts, sound, 2J:I to 3Jd; damaged skins, Id to Sii; grean skins, to 3s 3d each. Hides —Ox, light, 1 tood;eow, 3Ad t)3id; damaged hides, t) 3Jd; calf, sound, 4Jd to s&d; calf, damage 1, Id to Tallow —In tin, to iJJs 9d per cwt. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., rapart as follow :--Ojr catalogue comprised all classei, but the quality "throughout was medium, no prime Jots otfering. There was a full attendance of buyers, and competition was keen at last sale rates. We quote as follows: — vVool: Crossbred 3f:l. crutchifigs 3d to 3id, inf. r or 2d to 2Jd. Sheepskins: Halt'-ored s?>d, fuil-woolled ' crossbred 3Jd to 4|d, , crossbred half wools 4£d. (rossbred short 2£d to 3|d, crossbred daad and broken 2Jd to 3id, crossbred lambs ' 4+d, crossbred damp 33 Id to 3a 4d ex: 1. Hides: Ox, 731b3 5g 1, 62 to '641 b3 5Jd to 5.1'1, 4i to 541 bs 4?>d;>, cows, 61 to (jolhs 4Jd to 4id, 51 to .551b i 4Jd to 4£d. 43 to 451bs 3£d to 4fd; calf, 51b-t 5.?'J, 411s cut 3Jd. T.UI )w: In ca3k.s &l'i 5s to £23 15s .p-jr tin, in tins 21s Sd to 21s 9d per ' -cw:, rough fat 13s p*er cwt. '