Wool and Skin Sales

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7241, 23 August 1902, Page 3

Wool and Skin Sales

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited report as follows:—At Friday's salo wo offered about 35 bales of wool and 1200 sheepskins. There was a good attendance of buyers and keen competition, and we cleared our catalogue at prices slightly in advance of those realised at the previous sale. Wo quote-.—Wool-medium fine crossbrods 4d t04.kl ; coarse crossbreds 3d to 3:jd; clutchings l-i[d to 2:Vcl. Skins—merino from 4ci to s:'|d: merino pelts from 6d to 8d each ; crossbreds good from.3Jd to 4d; medium and coarse crossbreds 2;] dto 3d ; lambskins 3d to 3kl. Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report:— We offered 15 bales wool and 1200 skins. Thero is no changes in prices to record, everything being sold at recent quotations. We quote : Good crutching, 2d to 2r}d ; medium, l ; kl to 2d ; merino skins, 5d to sid; fine crossbreds, 4d to sd; good crossbreds, 3,} dto 4d; medium, 3d to 3;} cl: dead skins, 2d to 3d. Murray, Roberts and Co. report: —We offered a few bales of crutchings and about 2,000 skins. Prices for wool were unaltered, while bidding for skins was very brisk, prices advancing a farthing per lb for any good lines of crossbreds. We quote skins as under : — Halfbreds, 4kl to s;[d per lb; medium to fine crossbreds, 4d to 4:'{d per lb ; coarse to medium crossbreds, 3.} dto 4jd per lb; crossbreds, half to three-quarter woollod, 3d to ,3:'] d ; damaged and inferior pelted, 2' f d to 3{d per lb ; lambs, 3.kl to 4kl per lb; hoggets, 2£d to 3l[d.