RABBITSKIN MARKET
SALE AT DUNEDIN. DECLINE IN PRICES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, August 29. _ . The offering of rabbitskins at today’s sale was much smaller, amounting to approximately 35 tons. Competition was fairly keen, but prices all over were easier, which was expected in view of the European situation. Bucks were 6d to 12d cheaper. Does met a good market and were on an average from par to Id lower. Hatters and off season sorts receded Id to 2d. The official range of prices is as follows: — Small, 83d to lOd a lb; runners, 14jd to 15Jd; racks, 15d to 19d; summers, 15d to 19d; autumns, 193 d to 25d; incomings, 243 d to 32£d. Spotted winter bucks, to 53jsd; spotted winter does, 27d to 28Ad; second winter buck's, 68ad to 71d; second winter does, 363 d to 38jd; first winter bucks, ,79d to 81£d; first winter does, 43d to 46} d; outgoing winter bucks, 40‘d to 45d; outgoing winter does, 26}d to 273 d. Furrier does, 37d to 383 d; spring bucks, 28d to 34} d; spring does, 23d to 25}d; stained does, 253 d to 26}d; first milky, 20}d to 24}d; milky, 153 d to 18d; summer broken, 143 d to 16.3 d; autumn broken, 21 Id to 233 d; second winter broken, 21 }d to 24}d; first winter broken, 24£d to 26d; winter fawns, to 56d; summer black, lOd to 143 d; autumn black, 19}d to 203 d; first winter black, 383 d to 413 d. First hareskins, 293 d to 32d; hare-, skins, 12.3 d to 15d; horsehair, 17|d to 22d; first ferrets (each), 2s 6d to 6s 9d.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1939, Page 3
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