AUCTION OF RABBITSKINS
A total clearance at prices which must have been very satisfactory to the trappers was effected at the third sale of the rabbitskin season held in Wellington yesterday. The combined brokers, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Dalgety and Co., and Wright, Stephenson and Co., report that substantial catalogues, comprising mainly incoming and winter skins, were submitted, and there was a lull attendance of buyers who competed very keenly for the various^ grades. Winters in particular were in excellent demand, and the top price realised, 953 d for prime winter bucks, is exceptionally high for North Island skins.
. The quality of the offering, taken all over, was considerably better than that of previous sales held here this season, and consequently prices v/ere much higher. First bucks made 93d against 82-ld last sale, incoming 62d against
60d, autumn 46d against 44d, and "all" other grades showed an improvement of from 3d to Gd per lb, ■ • ,
The following is a range of prices:— Small, 8d to B_id a 1b; runners. 12d to 12-id; light racks, 16d to 16;id';■"'prime racks, 16,|d to IGAd; summer bucks, 13Jd to 19.; d; summer does, 12id to 13d; milky. H.Jd to '14Jd; ' dawny autumns, 19d to 19:; d; second autumns, 313 dto 3G:;d; early autumns, 26d to 33d; autumns. 3G:;d to 38d; late autumns, 42Jd to 40d; incoming, 45id to G2d; spring bucks, 42d; spring does, ltfd to 22d; spring and summer biack, Hid to 15id; autumn black, 30d. to 38d; inc. and o.w. black, 42d to 47d: winter black, 48',d'-to's9J; hares. 12Jd to 14',d; broken, Hid to 27:jd; prime bucks, 95: id; first bucks. 90d to 93d; second bucks, 783 dto 801 d; early winter bucks, 79;', dto 84i.'.; early winter does. 41d to 4Gd; first does, 54jd; second and spotted does, 40id to 43d: inc. and winter f.s. and b.s., 50:', dto 53id; autumn f.s. and b.s.. 25:; dto 273 d; spring and summer f.s. and b.s., 12d to 13:ld; summer weevilly,-B.Sd to 83d; winter weevilly. 18,3 dto 19d.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 5
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339AUCTION OF RABBITSKINS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 5
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