IMPROVED VALUES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27385, 10 May 1950, Page 9

IMPROVED VALUES

Rabbit Skin Sale COMPETITIVE BUYING The Dunedin Stock Agents and Woolbrokers’ Association (Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Donald Reid and Co., Ltd., Stronach, Morris and Co., Ltd., New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Wright, Stephenson and CoLtd., Otago Farmers’ Co-op. Assn.. Lto., and National Mortgage and Agency Company. Ltd.) report that at the iabb t skin sale held yesterday an offering approximately 4i tons was offered to a full bench of buyers. Competition was keen and all sections of the trade were operating. On an average prices improved in value Horn 3d to 6d per lb There were a number of poor quality ferret and stoat skins on offer, but these failed to elicit a bid. The following is dhe range of P n , c K es: ~ Small, 123 d to 153 d per lb; runners. 353 d to 393 d; prime racks, 463 d 4G 2 ci dawny autumns. 40d to 42d; thud early autumns, 413 dto 42Jd; second early autumns, 42d to 46d; first early autumns 473 d to 493 d; third late autumns 41id to 463 d; second late autumns, 483 d to 49d. First late autumns, to 553 d: third incoming, to 473 d; second incoming, to SZaO, first incoming, to 563 d; early'winter bucks. 53d to 593 d; early winter does, to 54d Summers, 25d to 27d; milky, 15d to 16 4 d, third broken, 20d to 24d; second broken, 393 d to 423 d; runners, bloodstained, 36 2 o to 39d; racks, bloodstained, 403 d to 43d. Horse hair, to 55d; third black. 28cj to 29d; second black, 35d to 38d; first black, to 44d; third fawns. 35d to 38d; second fawns, 643 d to 693 d; first fawns, to 73d; hare skins, 463 d to 48d; first stoat skins, 2s to 4s 2d each: red deer. 6s 2d per lb; fallow deer, 3s 3d per lb. The next sale Is listed to take place on Tuesday. May 30