RABBITSKIN SALE.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1925, Page 6

RABBITSKIN SALE.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:—"We held our second 6ale of rabbitsklns in Wellington yesterday, .our offering "being a. fair selection of aU, grades.; The southern and local buyers -wereiwell represented/* and competition generally was keen for the top lots. In sympathy with the.drop at,the, southern Bales, we found prices lower by 8d to 6d per lb. On the : prices.:ruling . yesterday the■ ouiuion is that values will hold. The following are the prices, secured by us for carefully stretch-' ed and well "gqt-up' skins: . A few extra special; lota realised higher prices, but are not quoted. ■_ The following is the ranges of prices :—Eunners rand suckers, 28Jd per *lb, summers'.32d, light..racks:.36d,v prime racks tad' .heavy.,racks,.36d,. autumns' 52d, early, autumns 47Jd, late. autumns' 50»d, late autumns (spotted): 80d,-.:; early winters 75d, incoming winters 88d, winterbucks 82Jd, winter does' 81d, incoming winters (spotted)) 66d e?rly winter.;,: (spotted) 65Jd, spotted winters 62J0, winter (b.s.) Bsd,mcominn and early winters (f^.)-. 55d, winter fawns 87d, winter blacks. SOd;-.'milky does <30d, springs :30d hareskins 31d.. .■■;', !■•'.' ■: ..-■.■■

■': The ;:. New -Zealand loan^and Jlercantile Agency; Co;, ltd.,'. report thattheru was a &,>, SS 5-"' buyers, both local and" Dunedin, at their rabbitskin sale yesterday, when they-oflered a fair; sized catalogue It was, evident from the - commencement of the of the sale that buyers were anticipating a rail- in ■ the, market, and consequently prices declined from 2d to. Gd per lb. . The .ioltowijr» 18. the range of prices, for well stretched and well, got-up^skins:—llunners. and euckera 1 21d to 23d, light racks heavy racks 37id da\vny - autumnß 42Jd. early autumus 503 d late;autumns 55|d, incomings Md, aarly wmtoa -Wd to Jojd, p.rimo bucHs 89ld, prime dos a 93d '.fiwt bucks SOdi first does" '60d, 'second bucks 74d, second does 62! d SDoftml .bucks ,55id,. 8 potted does 30d,, prime S! s 86d, : : first .winter blacks 73d, autumn'blacks 56d, incoming blacks "64d to 07d, early autumn Macks, 46d, summer, blacks Jod, -hareskms 32id summers 32id, milky.said to 36d" springs iU to 53d,.winter broken 46Jd, autumn brokfu lawn^Sd"- ro!ien 32Jd> fawns 2«d. summer