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WANGANUI HIDES AND TALLOW SALE.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Lid., report as follows :—

Our monthly sale of hides and tallovv was held on Wednesday, April 30th. there being the usual attendance of buyers. Under Government regulatioa tanners now have the option of taking all the hides they require at schedule prices, and all cur be it lines of hides were taken by tanners.

We quote as follows: — Extra hesivy ox, 13d per lb; heavy ox ll|d; light, ox, 30d to 10? d; heavy cow lpjd to lid; medium cow, 10£ dto lid ; light cow lOd to 10 3-8 d; slightly cut lox 10 o-8d ; slightly cut cow to 10 l-8d; yearlings to 10£ d; cut and slippy yeav. lings 7d to tf|d ; cut ox 8d ; cut cow BJd. Florse hides to 14/6 each:'neavy calf lOd per lb; medium <:alf 14 l-8d: first calf 17 l-8d ; second calf 15d; third calf lOd; slippy calf 9d per lb. JTailow—Casks 27s 9d per cwt.; tins, 20s to 25s (Jd per cwt.

Messrs DaJgety and Company, Ltd , VV ellington, report :■ — WELLINGTON, May 2. Wo held our first sale since SJOth March this afternoon, when a good catalogue of all clauses was submitted to a lull attendance of buyers. All h-des suitable lor tanners' requirements were selected by tiie tanners' representatives at the prices laid down on the Government schedule, and the remainder offered at auction, when they were keeniy competed tor by the various exporters present. Tallow again was in poor demand at low prices. Quotations ■. — Hides.—Ox, Heavy, 50 lbs. up, 12£ d to 14d; ox, medium, 50/59, 10£ d to ll?2d; ox, light, 49 and under, D£d do 12& d; cow, heavy, 55 lbs. and over, Ilclj cow, medium, 42 to 54, 10^d 10 12d; cow, light, under 42, 9fd to lid; cut, slippy and inferior, s£d to Hsd; bull stag, 7£d to 9d. yearlings (16 lbs. •«'_ 24 lbs.) 9d to 14d; calf, superior (up to 16 lbs.), 13 l-8d to lad; calf, mcd* jum good (up to 16 lbs.) 14d to 17|d; calf, damaged (up to 16 lbs.) 4d to 16d. Tallow. —In casks 22s 6d to 325; jn tins, etc., 12s to 28s 6d. Horsehair.—rsd to 12d; tails, 6d to 9d.

Next hide and tallow sale : 23rd May, IPI9.

Next sheepskin valuation: 14th May, 1919.

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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 6

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WANGANUI HIDES AND TALLOW SALE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 6

WANGANUI HIDES AND TALLOW SALE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 6