RABBITSKIN SALE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1939, Page 3

RABBITSKIN SALE

DECLINE IN PRICES RECORDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, August 15. The offering at today's rabbitskin sale was approximately 53 tons, slightly better than last sale, but much below the quantities for this time of the season. As the result, of course, to the adverse weather conditions experienced generally throughout the Dominion, the quality of the offering showed visible signs of ‘going off." and catalogues contained a small percentage of prime and first quality skins. Overseas markets are weaker, and buyers’ limits were reduced. Accordingly, competition was somewhat restricted for all grades, and, as compared with last quotations, bucks were on the average 6d to 9d lower, while does were Id to 3d cheaper. Hatter’s and inferior grades were Id to 2d lower; prime winter bucks sold to 941 d, first winter bucks to 93!d, second winter bucks to 83j>d, and first early winter bucks to 68d.

The official range of prices is: Small, 9Jd to lOd a lb; runners. 15.1 d to 16d a lb; light racks, 20d to 23]d a lb; prime racks 181 d to 19jd a lb; summers. 16d to 17,'|d a lb; early autumns, 24.',d to 24 : jd a lb; late autumns, 27d to 30d a lb; first early winter bucks, 63d to 68d a lb; first early winter does. 34d to 37 : ;d a lb; spotted winter bucks, 51 id to 38!d a lb; spotted winter does, 28d to 30d a lb; second winter bucks. 79d to 831 d a lb; second winter does. 36 : jd to 37.',d a lb; first winter bucks. 90d to 931 d a lb; first winter does, 39 : ;d to 431 d: prime winter bucks, 901 d to 94id a lb; prime winter docs. 45yd to 46 : ;d a lb; outgoing winter bucks, 45 : ;d to 48d a ]b; outgoing winter does, to 27.1 d a lb; furrier does. 37i‘d to 38.',d a lb; spring bucks, 35.',d to 38,','d a lb; spring does, 23d to 25.',d a lb; stained docs. 25:;d to 26jd a lb; first milky. 21',d to 23.',d a lb; milky. 15yd to 18‘d a lb; summer broken. 15;,'d to 16',d a lb; second winter broken. 22d to 26d a lb; first winter broken. 24 : ;d to 28d a lb; summer fawns, 20d to 24,}d a lb; autumn fawns. 30id to 40d a lb; first winter fawns. 59d to 60d a lb; second winter black. 22d to 28,',d; a lb; first winter black. 41 id to 44d a lb; first hareskins. 28d to 30d a lb; hareskins, 13','d to 16',d a lb; horsehair, 18d to 23,i'd a lb; first ferrets (each), 3s 6d to 5s 4d.

The next sale is listed for August 29.