RABBITSKIN SALE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1941, Page 8

RABBITSKIN SALE

BIG OFFERING SELLS WELL. | (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, June 4. The quantity forward at today's rabbitskin sale showed a substantial increase, a total of 93 tons (approximately) being submitted to a large bench of buvers. Good orders were again on the market for U.S.A, account, the demand being exceptionally strong for all grades and descriptions. Incomings and autumn grades were better by 3d to 9d, and low grades may be quoted firm. The official range of prices is as follows; —Small, 43.-d to 47.',d per lb.; runners, 61d to 65jd; light racks, 77d to 79Ad; prime racks, 771 d to 79d; summers, 65d to 64Jd; dawny autumns, 76£d to 84Jd; first early autumns, 96d to 106 d; first late autumns, 114 d to 118 d; first incomings, 138 d to 143 d; second incomings, llOd to 116 d; first early winter bucks, 153 d to 158 d; first early winter does, 13’7d to 142 d; spotted 'winter bucks. 126 d to 134 d; spotted winter does, 94d to 105 d; first winter bucks, 158 d to 160 d; first winter does 152 d to 146 d; outgoing winterbucks, 107 d to 116 d; outgoing winter does. 91 Id to 96d; first milky, 66d to 68d; milky, 591 d to 621 d; summer broken, 611d'to 63Jd; autumn broken, 71d to 72d; "second winter broken, 71d to 76d; first winter broken, 76d to 78d; summer fawns, 60d; autumn fawns, 67d to 78d; first winter fawns, 80d to 89Jd; summer black, 61d lo 64d; autumn black, 701 d to 76d: first winter black, 87d to 90d; first hareskins. 4Gjd to 49Jd; hareskins, 24d to 35Jd; horsehair, 31d to 31Jd; first ferrets, 10s 6d to 12s lOd; second ferrets, 4s lOd to 9s; lower grades practically valueless.