RABBITSKIN MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 16, 19 July 1939, Page 14

RABBITSKIN MARKET.

Dunedin stock and station.agents report that a large catalogue was submitted at yesterday's rabbitskin sale. Competition was keen, but exporters' limits were lower, and bucks specially were weaker. At the previous sale buyers were anxious to fill orders, and values for bucks appreciated considerably. Because of import restrictions New Zealand furriers were most active at, the sale today. As compared with previous sales, bucks were on the average 3d to 6d lower, while does were irregular. Hatters' grades were firm, while autumns of all descriptions were a shade easier. Following is the official range of prices:—Small, 9d to lOid a lb; runners, to 16d; light racks. 17! id to 19£ d: prime racks, 17£ dto 18* d: summer bucks, 14id to 163 d; summer does, 15.', dto 17d; downy autumns, 20d to 21d; first early autumns. 22% dto 25d; first late autumns, 30d to 393 d; first incomings, 40d to 413 d; second incomings, 28Jd to 33? d: first early winter bucks, 75£ dto 78d; first early winter does. 37:, d to 41 d; spotted winter bucks, 52d to 55d; spotted winter does, 31d to 32gd; second winter bucks. 75d to 78|d; second winter does, 36£ dto 38£ d; first winter bucks, 86d to 88£ d; first winter does, 40d to 473 d; prime winter bucks, 90d to 91|d; prime winter does, 44d to 47] d; outgoing winter bucks, 29; id to 44d: outgoing winter does, 253 dto 26^; furrier does, 36jd to 40d; spring bucks, 29d to 37,1 d: spring does, 21id to 25d; autumn does, to 27d; first milky. 19d to 21 id; milky. 24i!d to 26d; summer broken, 14d to 16d; autumn broken, 20? d to 233 d; second winter broken, 22ijd to 25id; first winter broken, 25-id to 28d; summer fawns, 20d to 20id; autumn fawns, 48d to 60£ d; summer black, to lOfd; autumn black. 19d to 22Jd; first winter black, 373 d to 43d; first hareskins. 24d to 24-Jd; hareskins. lOd to 132 d; horsehair, 13d to 18d: first ferrets feach), 4s 4d to 6s 6d; second ferrets (each). 2s 6d to 4s Id.