Winter Rabbit Skin Prices Again Rise

Chronicle (Levin), 19 June 1948, Page 4

Winter Rabbit Skin Prices Again Rise

Another large catalogue of rabbit skins was submitted to the usual bench of buyers at the sale conducted this week in Dunedin by the Otago Farmers' Co-operative Association. Lower and- spotty grades were from par to a shade easier in value, while clean wnter grades were from firm to a shaae dearer. , The following as, the range of prices per lb.: — $mall, to 28d; third broken, to 64d; second broken, to 109d; first broken, to 122d; milky, to 73d; summers, 84 to 88£d; runners, to 57d; racks, 66 -to 78d; dawny auts., to 97-|d; early auts., to 119d; late auts., to 144d; incomings, to 168d; E. W. bucks, 149 to 190d; EW. does, 129 to 171d; spring bucks, 115 to 138d; spring does, 123 to 124d; outgoing bucks, 123 to 155d; outgoing does, 123 to 134d; spotty bucks, to 180d; spotty does, to 180d; winter bucks, 158 to 197d; winter does, 165 to 210d; weevilly, to 30d; summer blacks, to 58d; autumn black, to 89^-d; winter black, to 107d; summer fawn, io lOld; autumn fawn, to 140d; winter fawn, to 171d; hare skins, 100 to 130d; hair, to 50d; goat skins, 2s 4d; second dark ferrets to 7/3d; first dark ferrets 13/3 to 18/3d; second stoats, to 6/4d; first stoats, to 18/6d;. The next sale is scheduled for June 29, when the 10 per cent levy will operate.