RABBITSKIN SALE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 15 July 1936, Page 4

RABBITSKIN SALE.

FURTHER RISE IN PRICES. The third Wellington rabbitskin sale at Wellington was held yesterday. Largo catalogues, comprising mainly incoming and winter skins, were offer-, ed There was a full bench of buyers, and a still further improvement in prices was shown. Lower grades, were Id to 3d higher; autumn lines. 3d to 6d up; and winters, 6d to ]od higher. A lino of prime winter bucks sold a.t 144 d per lb; first bucks made 1I38d; prime does, 96d; and first does, 8/d. The following is the range of prices! —Prime bucks, 136?{d to 144 d , first bucks. 1204 cl to 138 d; second bucks, 107 dto 122 d; spotted bucks, 84Jd to 105(1; outgoing bucks, to 85 id; spring bucks. 56fd to 58Jd; prune does, 93d, to 96c1; first does. 844 cl to s7d ; second does, 70id to 76fd ; spotted does, 55id to 64fd : outgoing does, to 58£d ; spring does, 40d to 43d: first early winter bucks, 1104 cl to 122 d; second early winter bucks, 78L1 to 874 d ; first early winter does, 781 d to 84d ; first incoming, 90id to 97d ; second incoming, 761 d to 78ld ; first late autumns, 80 Jd to 84-|d; first eaily autumns, 58d to 62Jd; dawny autumns, 42d to 43d; summer bucks, 32id to 33d; summer does, to 29Jd; first- broken, 46|d to 504(1; second broken, 37d to 40|d; third broken, to 30dautumn black, 50d to oo,d ; incoming and winter black, idd to bOd ; spring and summer F.S. a.nd 8.b., 30Id to 31d; autumn outgoing i .b. and 8.5., 50d to 53id; incoming and winter F.S. and 8.5., 64Jd to (0d; hares, 3Gd to 3GRI; summer weevily, to 2i\d ; winter weevily, to 31d.