RABBITSKIN MARKET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 3

RABBITSKIN MARKET

SALE AT WELLINGTON. COMPARATIVELY LOW PRICES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The first rabbitskin sale of the 1939 season was held at Wellington yesterday by Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Dalgety and Co., Ltd. Medium-sized catalogues were offered. The quality of the skins, as is usual with the opening sale, was not of a high order, comprising mostly summer grades with a large percentage of stale skins. In view of the unsettled state of the overseas market buyers were operating with caution, and prices for grades other than freshly-caught skins were on a comparatively low basis. For the winter lots, however, satisfactory prices were obtained, incomings making up to 34Jd, early winters to 44d, and first bucks to 60d. These prices are well up to those ruling at the June sale last year, and indicate that trapping will again be a payable proposition. The following is the range of prices:— Small, to 6d; runners, Hid to 12d; light racks. 13d to 15s; prime racks, 13|d to 14d; milky, 9d to lOd.

Summer does, to lOd; summer bucks, 9d to lOd; autumn does, to 14d; dawny autumns, 14 J d to 151 d; second early autumns, 14d to 16J.d; first early autumns, 18Jd to 19£d; second late autumns, 19d to 21Jd; first late autumns, 28d to 291 d. Broken, 9Ad to 17d; F.S. and 8.5., lOd to 22d; hares, 7Ad to 91d; spring does, to 91d; spring bucks, to lOld; black, 7d to 16d. Incoming, 22d to 341 d: weevily, 61d to Hid; early winter bucks, 42d to 44d; early winter does, to 30d; spotted bucks, to 36d; spotted does, to 20d; second bucks 50 to 55d; second does, to 275: first bucks, 55d to 60d; ferrets, to 12d.