FURRED SKIN SALE.
Combined Wellington Brokers held their niiit.li and final furred nkin mile <>t the lnnt. week. The quantity offered showed u decided drop, and it is obvious that the season is now practically over. Competition for all grades was exceptionally keen, and prices were firm at. late rated, and on a par with recent (Southern sales. HprinK* and summer gr tides are selling remarkably well. Jho following is the range of prices for well-stretched and well "got-up" skins: — Hunncrs and suckers, 25Vid to 38%; Bummers, :Ss<l to 30V*d ■, light racks, 40% d; autumns, 48d to flHd; milk docs, 33% dto 47d; I are skins, Ho%<\ to filVid; fawns, 7-2.1 to Hid; first winter does, 122 d to IWi'/nl; winter blacks, to llOd; incoming wintern, MM to 80d; outgoings, to KOd; spotted V/ inters, (iCtd to 82/1; late winters, Old Id iOOd; prime but Us, 114 d; lirst winter l,u/4.h, losd to lU'Ail. '('lk-id was an exceptional ijeiuand for •II coh,ur* of opossum skins, and prices on the avert!ge were well up to previous **}?*' '"-taa, Huper greys brought up to! Vmlkl" f re > r * 17/8. first blacks to bSowna to W/11, super rusty* to |
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 262, 5 November 1928, Page 4
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195FURRED SKIN SALE. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 262, 5 November 1928, Page 4
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