THE FUR TRADE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 114, 10 April 1930, Page 7

THE FUR TRADE.

BREEDING OF FOXES. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) AUCKLAND, April 10. A suggestion that foxes should be imported into New Zealand and bred for the fur trade was made at a meeting of the Auckland Fur Club. The members of the club, with Mr Cambie, of a fur company, discussed the outlook for fur production, Mr Cambie submitting an extensive range of furs from various world sources and in various stages of treatment. These conveyed to the New Zealand producers some conception o§ what competition they had to meet. Among the furs that figured in the discussion were Russian hare, Chinese goat, Spanish and Persian lamb, American opossum, jack rabbit, calf skin, musquash and fox. Mr Cambie expressed the hope that the production of musquash and fox would be undertaken in New Zealand. Very large quantities of musquash were used, and it was a fur of good wear and great popularity. Fox was in world-wide demand, particularly silver fox and cross fox, the value of these in a good quality being around £SO each. He thought they would thrive in New Zealand. Mr Cambie considered that a supply of New Zealand Chinchilla pelts would at present receive a warm welcome from the public if made up in their exquisite natural colour. He advocated their increased production and also musquash and the rarest kinds of fox.