COMMERCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15028, 28 August 1922, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

HIDES AND SHEEPSKINS Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Auckland, advise having held their fortnightly hide and skin sale, on •Tuesday, as under: — Hides.—Fair demand at slightly reduced rates for heavy hides. Calfskins dull of sale at a reduction of 2d per lb. Best- butchers' ox, stout to lC4d; 59/69, GAd to 8d; 53/50, 5Jd to 6Jd; 45/52, 5d to 6d; 33/44, 5d to 5 7-8 d; cow, best, 5d to 6d; second, 4d to sd; cut hides, Id to 2d, below above; first faulty hides, all weights, 3Jd to 4d'; second faulty hides, all weights, Id to lid; kips, best to 7Jd; seconds, 4d to sd; yearlings best to 9d, seconds 5d to 7d, calf, good quality te 14d, second quality lid to 13d, cut to lid, first faulty to 9d, damaged 4d to 6d. Sheepskins. Market firm. Salted skins, 3 to full wool, 2s 9d to 4s Id each; half wool, is 6d to 2s 3d; lr.rnbs' wool,, Is 6d to 2s 6d; dry skins, fine woolled to 6d; first quality crossbred full wool, 4 Ad; second quality crossbred full wool, 2Jd to Hid first quality crossbred, half wool, 2"l-8d to 3Ad;*short to quarter wool, Id to 2Ad; full wool, dead and damaged, lAd to 3d.

Tallow. Market quiet. Good quality in shipment casks, to 275; broken packages, 17s to 21s.

LONDON MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cable from their London office, under date 23rd inst: — Tallow. —Offered 1880 casks, sold 120 casks. Price nominally 6d lower, and market very dull.