DUNEDIN RABBITSKIN SALE

Southland Times, Issue 25504, 26 October 1944, Page 2

DUNEDIN RABBITSKIN SALE

The Otago Farmers’ Co-operative Association reports on the Dunedin rabbitskin sale as follows:—“Mediumsized catalogues were submitted to a full bench of buyers. The demand was good, but the market generally was easier than the previous sale. The bulk of the offering comprised milky, summers and springs and. compared with prices ruling last sale summers were firm and springs were from Id to 5d per lb lower, while milky were from 8d to 18d per lb lower.

The following is the range of prices: Summers, 44d to 54d; third broken to 56Jd; milky, 59d td 74Jd; stained does, to 74Jd; second broken, to 73d; winter bucks, 90id to 107 d; winter does, 901 d to 92id; outgoing winter bucks, 75Ad to 94Jd; outgoing winter does, 751 d to 82ad; spring bucks, 50d to 55Jd; spring does, to 73id; third black, to 30d; second black, to 36d; third fawns, to 30d; second fawns, to 36d; hareskins, to 20d; hair, 6d to 33d. ■

NORTHERN EXCHANGES Wellington—N.Z. Insurance, £4/8/6; Ballins (contrib.), 17/9; N.Z. Forest Products, 6/9; Macduff’s (pref.), £l/6/9; Claude Neon (N.Z.), £l/8/6; Broken Hill, £2/5/6 (2); 3 p.c. Stock, 1952-55, £97/10/-; 3 p.c. Stock, 1953-56, £9B 5/-; N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op. Association of Canterbury (Ist pref.), £5/8/6; Booth Macdonald (pref.), 9/-. Christchurch—Sales reported: N.Z. Government 3J p.c. Stock, 1956-59, £lOO/11/3; Ballin’s Breweries (15/paid), 17/9; N.Z. Farmers’ Co-op (Ist pref.), £5/8/6. Dunedin.—Loan and Mercantile (ord. stock), £73. Sales reported: Union Steam (pref.), £l/11/9; Wool Bonds, 1939, 19/2; Inscribed Stock, 3 p.c. 195356, £9B; Bank of New Zealand (long D), £l/13/3; National Insurance, £1 4/9. Auckland.—E.S. and A. Bank, £4 6/6; N.Z. Insurance, £4/8/6; Colonial Sugar, £57; Dental and Medical, £1 3/—; Radio (1936), 18/6; Woolworths (N.Z.), £l/1/- (2); W. R, Cooke, £6 10/-; Hamilton Borough, 1954, £107; Bank of N.S.W., £35/10/-; broken Hill Proprietary, £2/5/3; Selfridges (A’sia), £l/6/6; Stock, 1953-56, 3 p.c., £9B/10/-; Auckland Harbour Board, 1954, £lO7 10/-; British Tobacco, £2/8/9; Consolidated Brick, 10/3; Wm. Cable (ex div.), £l/9/3; Loloma, £l/2/-: Stock, 195356, 3 p.c., £9B/5/-. ? -