Rabbitskin Market Firm at Dunedin

Grey River Argus, 23 May 1947, Page 2

Rabbitskin Market Firm at Dunedin

DUNEDIN, May 20. , The Otago Farmers’’ Co-operative Association of New Zealand Ltd., report as follows on to-day’s rabbit skin sale. A large catalogue was submitted to a full bench of buyers although competition was not keen, prices remained firm for most grades on last sales values. Values* in comparison with last sale, may be quoted as follows:— Broken and summer grades on par, autumn grades being par to- a shade easier, while blood-stained grades were firm. The folowing was the range of prices:— All prices in pence: Small to 304; Broken 59 to 125; milky to 514; summers 68 to 72; runners 64 to 824; racks 75 to 984; dawny autumns to 120; early autumns 130 to 135; late autumns 1.38 to 155; incomings 130 to 161; spotty autumns to 124; spotty incomings to 130; early winters 124 to 161; weevilly to 39; third blacks to 72; second blacks to 127; third fawns to 95; second fawns to 134; hare skins' to 118; red deer skins to 4/-.. per lb.