WELLINGTON FUR SALES.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 51, 7 September 1928, Page 12

WELLINGTON FUR SALES.

.Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co.. Ltil., Xew Zealand Loau and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Da.lgety and Co., Ltd., and New Zealand Farmers' Di.stiibutinjj Co., Ltd., in oonjunctiou ■with the New Zealand I'm- Trappers' Association, report; Tho seventh monthly sale o£ the season was held yesterday, when an especially large catalogue of all grades of opossum and rabbit skins was submitted to a. full bench of buyers, representing all the leading fur-buying houses, furriers, and local trade. In sympathy with Southern sales prices fov rabbit skins generally were slightly easier. Low grades also showed a decline of 3d to Cd per pound. Seasonal conditions resulted in a good proportion of outgoing sorts coming for sale, and pi-ices for these grades must be considered very satisfactory. The following is the range of prices for wallstretebed and well-got-up skins:— Runners 30d to 3Cd, summers and springs 33d to 48' M, light racks 42d to 45d. prime racks up to '.Hid, autumns 50i4d to 05d, milky does 39d to 44d; hares 50d to 70d, fawns OiHid to 121% d, spotted winters bOd to 85% d, incoming winters 63d to OOd, outgoing winters (52d to 76% d, late winters 87d to 109 d, early winters Old to 108 d. prime bucks HO^d to 120 d, prime doe* 141% dto Mid, first bucks 97d to V)VM. first does 120 dto 132'/ 2 d, prime blacks 124 dto 128 d, winter blacks IOOd to 115 d. Opossum Skins: This was the second sale of tlie season, when a catalogue of over 10,000 skins was submitted to a full representation of buyers. Competition was exceptionally keen especially for any super or firsts of all colours, these bringing astonishingly high prices. Values generally were on a par .with the last Southern sales and considering the quality of the skins brought _ forward, trappers who were fortunate in having their catches sold at auction to-day, must feel highly pleased at the high prices realised. Super blues fetched up to 22s Gd, super grey up to 20s, super blacks up to 21s 3d. Other grades sold remarkably well. The following is the range of prices for welllstretched and eared-for skins: Super blues li)s 3d to 22s 6d, first blues 17s 3d to 19s Ud, second blues 10s lOd to las, third blues 8s fid to lls 2d, super greys 17s Cd to 20s, iirst greys los to 10s 6d, second greys 10s 7d to 34s lid, third greys 8s 2d to 'lOs 9d, super blacks 18s lid to 21s 3d, lirst blacks 14s to 15s 7d. second blacks lls (id to 12s. third blacks 7s to 7s ()d, super browns los 3d to 14s 4d. first browns Us to I,'te, second browns Ss Od to 10s Cd, (list mis up to 10s Oil. red ,js 7d to Sh, super nislys lls lid to 13s. first rusiys 10s (id to Is 2 'Id, nislys (is 3d to 10s (id, tirst red necks 10s 7d to lls 7d, red necks (is Id to Ss. nils 2d to (id.