Winter Rabbit Skins Show Rise In Price

Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1948, Page 4

Winter Rabbit Skins Show Rise In Price

Another iarge catalogue of rab- - bit skins was submitted to the : usual bench of buyers at a sale held this week by the Otago Farm- • ers' Co-op. Association when good winter skins showed an increase from 5d to 30d per lb., while most other grades were on a par with last sale. Racks, runners and dawny autumns showed a decrease of 2d to 7d per lb. The following is the range of prices p.er lb.: — Small, to 28d; third broken, to 72-^d; second broken, to 116d; first broken, to 125d; milky, to 66d; summers, 69 to 84d; rpnners, to 60d; light racks, 64 to. 93id; prime "racks, 64 to 85d; spotty autumns, to U2d; dawny autumns, to 95d; early autumns, 118 to 138d; late autumns, 126 to 146d; . spring bucks, 115 to 146d; spring does,T23 to 130d; winter bucks, 160 to 193d; winter does, 164 to 193d; incomings, 168 to 193d; E.W. bucks, 137 to 179d; E.W. does, 124 to 170d; outg. bucks, 120 to 159d; ougt. does, 122 to 141d; weevilly, to 28d; summer black, to 60d; autumn black, to 93i-d; winter black, to 106d; summer fawns, to 108d; autumn fawns, to I45d; winter fawns, to 163d; hare skins, -J4 to lOOd; hair, to 54Jd; red deer skins, to 3s 6d per lb. The next sale is scheduled for June 15. As it will be the last before the 10. per cent levy comes into operation, all clients are advised to forward their consignments immediately to be included in this sale. All skins must be in the store by 5 p.m. on June 8.