RABBITSKIN SALE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 2, 27 September 1939, Page 3

RABBITSKIN SALE

Keen Competition

Dominion Special Service

DUNEDIN, September 26.

■ The offering of rabbitskins at today’s auction was much smaller than usual, catalogues approximating 28 tons being submitted. Competition was brisk throughout, values showing appreciation on late rates.

The official range of prices is as follows: Small, lid. to 12Jd. a lb.; runners. 22Jd. to 22Jd. n lb.; racks, 24d. to 25Jd. a lb.; summers, 233 d. to 27Jd. a lb.; autumns, 31d. to 3-lJd. a lb.; spotted winter bucks. 63)d. to 69)d. a lb.; spotted winter does, 38d. to 42Jd. a lb.; second winter bucks, 79d. to Slid, a lb.: second winter does, 43Jd to 47Jd. a lb.; first winter bucks, 90d. a lb.; first winter does, 50d. to 52d. a lb.; outgoing winter bucks, 52d. to 59Jd. a lb.; outgoing winter does, 3-1-Jd. to 39Jd. a lb.; furrier does, 41d. to -13i|d. a II).; spring bucks, 40d. to 46)d. a lb.; spring does, 31-]d. to 34}d. a lb.; stained does, 33‘2<1. to 35-Jd. a lb.; first milky, 32)d. to 3-lid. a lb.; milky. 25i|d. to 29)d. a lb.; second winter broken, 3-ld. to 36d. a lb.; first winter broken. 36Jd. to 38d. a lb.; first winter fawns, 56d. a lb.; first winter black, 38d. to 42Jd. a lb.; harcskins, 15d. to ISid. a lb.; horsehair, 14d. to 22Jd. a lb.; first ferrets (each), 5/9 to 7/4.