OPOSSUM SKIN SALE.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1924, Page 3

OPOSSUM SKIN SALE.

Messrs 1 fidgety and Co. Ltd. rep-irl : \t the sale at Dunedin on Aug. '-’2nd. the second for the season, nhont. 1(1.O’)) skins wore offered l>v the nine selling lookers, of which quantity wc had for sale 70:ID. comprised ol skins drawn from practically every part of X.Z. whore oimsstims w «rc lonnd. Ihe demand was again vorv keen her all descriptions and traopets who wore I<* tunate enough to liave -tuns in lor sale must feel very gratified they had tlm V i-dom to sell at am timi and not to country buyers who have 1 vrrv little. 0 anv. compel 1 1 ion tit meet. Ihe qualilv ol the skins iva- not up to that oi our first sale, owing to the lac! that a large proportion wen 1 from the tmt'llt ami these skins are not so densely furred us Otago ami Southland skins. ’I In cptaiitity oll'crcd wtts considerably -mailer than was tintieipaled and u was probably owing G> Miles and greys being in short supply that price's tor these, allowing for ditlereuci* in (pialitv .were hi'dmr li.v full' E" I- ,;i1 :l skill. We had easily the best selection of blue, and grrvs. drawn clm lly I nan tlte Wanganui district, agd these' sold exceptionally well. Tlmy are m. mewbar smaller skins than from other parts of the mirth, and consider;,blv smaller thaw tines I .' from the south, but. they arc ol excellent colour and well furred, while' the majority of trappers there spare no pains in

streic hing them. •(’lie hulk of the eMermg was blackand 111 these we had some heautlllll eolour- drawn chiel!;. Irom Waikaie inc ana. ami the W< M Coast of the Smith i.-lallil. For lap sorts prices were about lid a skin higher, other •grade- remaining practically unchangj.,l Wc- have thi- vear lurmlled prac-li- , ally all the npos.-i:;ii skin- whic h have come Irom these districts, and although blacks and browns have tteter brought .such high pi ice- a- blue- ami grev-. the prices rcaliscal at the la-t cue -ale- must be very -at i-tactoiw. Tim high prices for blue- a- compared with black- arc explained by Hm fact that the I’orntei description which i. not. so plentiful, i- bought practi-c-allv solely for America, while blackarc hom'ht im>r* lor spccnlatioii. I lie.' in,l ""keenly sought after lev Alllel I .an blivet - hat are Loi tlit by I'el -

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