RABBITSKIN SALE
The Otago Farmers’ Co-operative Association reports .hat there was a full attendance of buyers at the rabbitskin sale at Dunedin today, when competition was keen for all (grades. After the postponement of the sale last week, orders are now in for immediate shipment, and the market firmed, prices for hatter grades advanced from 4d to lOd per lb. All winter grades were eagerly sought. Early winter bucks advanced 9d per lb and does from 3d to 6d per lb.
In the winter lines, bucks appreciated from 8d to lid per lb while does were from 3d to 6d per lb better than at the previous sale.
The following is the range of prices: Small 16Jd, summer broken 26d, milky 25jd to 35jd, runners 22d, summers 27 7-Bd, light racks prime racks 34? f d, autumn broken 33|d, dawny autumn 34{d, second early autumns 40d, first early autumns 39|d, second late autumns 56d, first late autumns 69jd, second incomings 67d, first incomings 87d, second early winter bucks 86ad, second early winter does 64d, first early winter- bucks 102 d, first early winter does 77d, spotty bucks 80d, spotty does 58d, second winter bucks 99d, second winter does 68d, first winter bucks llOd, first winter does 79d, outgoing bucks 68d, outgoing does 53d, first spring bucks 59d, first spring does 43£d, second spring bucks 52d, second spring does 39d, summer black 25£d, autumn black 37Jd, incoming black 44jd, winter black 69|d, summer fawns 36Jd, autumn fawn 60Jd, winter fawns 84d, hareskins 19;jd to 30d, hair to 32d. .
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Southland Times, Issue 24162, 26 June 1940, Page 3
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257RABBITSKIN SALE Southland Times, Issue 24162, 26 June 1940, Page 3
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