FURRED SKIN SALE.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 11

FURRED SKIN SALE.

.The New Zealand Loan.aiid Mercantile Conipahy's fourth .Wellington i eate of the season was held on Thursday to a'foU bentih of southera buyers, local furriers, and shippers. The catalogue was representative of all grades, and included a good many winter sorts from all parts of the JTorth Island and northern part of the South Island, but many consignments intended for this sale did ii6t come forward in time, owing to iflcJement wea-ther.-The market, in efinpaihy with recent London, Australiafi, and Dunedin sales, was not brisk, and the Usual keen competition in evidence at previous tales was lacking, owing to biiyert beihg without, definite orders from 'dyerseasi Gon. sequently most of the winter incoming and autumn sorts were held over. : Summer^ and autumn grades declined from. 6d to Is; early winter's, incomings, and Winters from I2d to 20d, as cotiipared with last sale. A few lots of the best winter skins* wero disposed of to local furrier* at last sale's rates* Tlie' following H the range! 6f prices obtained: "Rennets and suckers, 13d to. 20% d per lb; summers, 24% dto 27d; light rack^.-; 31% dto 35%d----heavy racks, 37% dto 41% d; early autumns, 54%d.t0 57d; late autumns, to 70d;-in-coming winters, 72d to 88d; early winters. 91d to I20d) super, bucks (winter), 130Hd to 140 d; first biicks, to i26d; fifst do« ?01%d t0.120d: wiiiter'blacks. llSd to 120% d;' winter fafrils. 12ld; does, llattd; hareskins, 36%d> to 4id. ' ' ' • :...