HIDE AND SKIN REPORT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12840, 11 December 1911, Page 7

HIDE AND SKIN REPORT.

DALGETY AND CO.'S PALMER-

STON REPORT

At our usual monthly sale on Friday. Sth instant, we offered a: large cataloguo of all classes to a good attendanco of buyers, and all lots met with exceptionally keen competition, and realised tho following satisfactory prices:—

Wool.—ln sympathy with the late sales, prices showed a decided increase f>n our last offering. Locks and pieces 4d to s|id, inferior dead to 6d, crutchings sid, 6 7-8d 3 7£d to B£d. . ■:■- ■'. . •..;. .... - ■

- Sheepskins.—These ■ also realised an advance on last sale's rates. Crossbred wools 43d, dead hoggets 4|d, hoggets sd, lambs s^d, coarse crossbred 5-Id tp GJd, medium crossbred to 6^d,'half dry crossbred at each, 4s 7d, 6s, to 6s Id; half; dry .lambs at each, Is Bd, crossbred, green, at each, 4s lid,to 5s 6d, Baited lambs at each, Is 7d, salted pelts at each, Is 3d-to ,1s Bd. .;

Hides.—The for these was> exceptionally keen and-prices all round shower! considerable advance, viz.-*-. Best cow 6|d, medium cow -6^d to 6 5-Bd, cows (cut and slippy) 5 3-8 dto fi 5-Bd, ux, best lines 7 l-Bd, 7£d, to 7 S-Bd, medium to 6 7-Bd, ox staggy" 6M-8d Iq 6 3-Bd, heifersand steers'to" : 6£d,\ yearlings 6 5-8 dto Bd, yearlings, I cut to 6d, horse hides 3s 9d to 4s, cows, dry, at each, to 17-s- 3d. Calfskins.—These met with equally good demand. Calf, cut and slippy 5 7-8 dto 7£d,- calf, small/■■■ 9d, "calfj meaty 9|d, . calf, best lines ;to 10: l-Bd. Sundries.- —Tallow, in tins to 24s 3d, rough fat 19s 3d, horsehair Is 9d, cow-'