RABBITSKIN SALE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 160, 8 June 1939, Page 4

RABBITSKIN SALE.

COMPETITION AT DUNEDIN. ; DUNEDIN, June 7., There was a good oft'ering at to-day s ( sale ol approximately 50 tuns cf rabbit- ! skins. Competition generally was keen . and the demand continued throughout tho j sale. As compared with last sale a quota- j tions hatters wore linn, hut autumn - grades generally were cheaper. Good bucks j advanced from 3d 6d, while does, on the average, ruled firm. \\ inter bucks sold to 70bJ, winter does to 46d, early win- J ter bucks'to 68d, and early winter does to 40gd. The oflioial range of prices is:— : Small. —7Jd to 9d a lb; runners, 15d | to 16d; light racks, 13§cl to 19d; prime - racks, 17d to I7jd; summer bucks, 12Icl to 13d; slimmer docs, 13d to 14d; r dauuiy autumns, 183 dto 20d: first early c 'autumns, 231 dto 24i< 1; first late ant- c umns, 352 dto 37d; lirst incomings, 41d . to 42d; second incomings, olid to 322<1: ; lirst. early winter bucks, 64d to 68d; J \ llrsb uarlv winter does, 38d to 401 d; t spotted winter bucks, 451 dto 46d : spnlted winter does, 29d to 30d; second winter bucks, 60d to 61d; second winter docs, 32d to 36d; lirst winter bucks, lo 70jd; lirst winter docs, 39bl to 44id; prime winter bucks, to 70Jid ; prime winter docs, 40d to 46d; outgoing winter c bucks, 293 d to 32£d; outgoing winter >. docs, 223 dto 263 d; spring bucks, 17d ] to 21Jd; spring does, 19d to 19|d; I stained dees, to Ifild; first milky, 15d ] to 16d;. milky, 12d to 13d; summer f broken, to 13id; autumn broken, 1 18d to 18|d: second winter broken, j 18|d to 213 d; first winter broken, 21d ] to 23d; summer fawns, 16d to 18Id; 1 autumn fawns, 20d to first winter I fawns, 36d to 391 d; summer black, J ICfJd to aiitun'.tn black, 21 Id to J hareskins, to 163 d; hareskins, 9d to 10i,d; ,c horsehair, 15d to 181 d a lb; first ferrets, Jf 2s 4d to 3s lid each; second ferrets, Is fid I to 3e Id each. I