RABBITSKIN SALE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 56, Issue 32897, 18 August 1947, Page 5

RABBITSKIN SALE

GOOD GRADES IN DEMAND all values improved A large catalogue was submitted to a full bench of (buyers at the Otago Fanners’ Co-operative Association of New Zealand Limited’s rabbitskin sale on August 12. Bidding was brisk and there was a particularly keen demand for good grades. Values improved for all grades in comparison with the previous sale and were quoted firmer as follows: Broken par to 3d, milky 4id to lid, spotty bucks par to sd, spotty does par to Bd, winter bucks par to sd, winter does 4d to 19d, bloodstained grades par to 14d per lb. The following was the range of prices: Small, to 20d per lb.; 3rd? broken, to 75d; 2nd broken, to 120 d; Ist broken, to 125 d; milky, 66d to 104 d; summers, 73d to 80d; 4th spotty bucks, to 114 d; 4th spotty does, to 125 d; 3rd spotty bucks, 108 d to 126 d; 3rd spotty does, 116 d to 13<0d; 2nd spotty bucks, 127 d to 139 d; 2nd spotty does, 130 d to 145 d; Ist spotty bucks, to 149 d; Ist spotty does, to 170 d; 2nd winter bucks, 140 d to 173 d; 2nd winter odes, 130 d to 252 d; Ist winter bucks, 151 d to 194 d; Ist winter does, 196 d to 276 d; furrier does, to 262 d; stained does, to 126 d; light winter does, to 122 d; autumns, to 114 d; late autumns and incomings, to 132 d; weevilly, to 40d; autumns, fatty, to 114 d; winters, fatty, to 121 d; 3rd blacks, to 49d; 2nd blacks, to 114 d; Ist blacks, to 336 d; 3rd fawns, to 76d; 2nd fawns, to 140 d; Ist fawns, to 202 d; hareskins, 114 d to 144 d; horse hair, to 47d; goat skins, to Is 6d; red deerskins, 2s 4d to 3s 6d.