RABBIT EXPORT
AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY
REDUCED PRICES FOR FUR.
SYDNEY, July 2. Although prices recmvea overseas have declined considerauly, there lias been ,a marked increase in the export of skinned rabbits and rabbit furs m the past nine months. Firms interested in the./trade consider that shipments have recently been arriving in excellent condition. This is regarded in a great measure as due to improved packing methods of skinned rabbits and the close supervision exercised by , nspectors of the Commonwealth Markets Department. The increase in quantity has gradually brought about a change in methods of packing. For the three months ended March :ilst last the value of rabbits exported was £73,260, compared with £50,142 for the corresponding period of 1030. For the nine months elided March, 1931, a ecltsidefabHle increase is shown aver the same period hist year, handily £333,578; compared with £ "88j527, iil dicatiiig that the trade in the dartiase rabbit is hot ollly being well Maintained, hilt ilist) efctehcted. ibis is due in some measure to the exchange position which is largely responsible for a smaller number in cold storage throughout Australia at this time of the year. Whereas on May 23rd last year the number of crates of furred rabbits in cold storgae was 148,843, n addition to 3252 crates of skinned abbits, on the same date this year the respective numbers were 75,404 of furred and 2(527 of skinned rabbits.
The export figures from January 1-t to May 31st last show a considerable increase over the figures for the same period last year. For skinned ,rabbits it was practically double. During May almost the whole of the export took place from New South Wales—--13,132 erases.
The value of rabbit skins exported, however, shows a marked decline for the three months ended March 31st last. This was set down at £24,883. compared with £35,753 for the same period of last year. A much heavier figures for the nine months ended March last are similarly ,compared, namely an export value of £431,899. as against £1,356,000. This heavy decline is due solely to the fall-in world’s prices, brought about by factors sir unding the general world depress: o'
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1931, Page 2
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