DUNEDIN RABBITSKIN SALE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 26 August 1936, Page 11

DUNEDIN RABBITSKIN SALE

——— i l There was a full attendance of 1 buyers at the sale of rabbitskins held at Dunedin on Thursday by the Otago t Farmers' Co-operative Association of J N.Z., Ltd. f Competition was again keen for all . . grades, though off-season and low- - ■ grade skins were only sought after at ' reduced prices. The quality of the offerings is going off, but all winter 1 grades were still in keen demand, bucks appreciating by 3d to 6d per lb. ‘ Does also participated in the rise, and ; advanced from Id to 4d per lb. The following is the range of 1 ’ prices:—Small, 21Id; runners, 31d; 1 ’ milky, 351 d to 471 d; summer bucks, 1 i 383 d; summer does, 37d: light racks, r 43!d; prime racks, 37d; dawny : autumns, 43d; 2nd early autumns, 45Jd; 2nd late autumns, 71d: late 1 autumns, 72d: 2nd incomings. 77d; Ist > incomings. 971 d; 2nd early winter J bucks. 116 d; 2nd early winter does, - 69d; Ist early winter bucks. 137 d; Ist ■ early winter does, 83d; spotty bucks, 1 I 12ld; spotty does, 76W; 2nd winter I - bucks, 134 d: 2nd winter does, 82ld; i Ist winter bucks, 147 d; Ist winter does. 93d; prime bucks, 148 d; prime ’ s does. 106 d: outgoing bucks. lOld; mitq going does, 66d; spring bucks, 76d, I snring does. 45d: 2nd snring bucks, 1 n 531 d; summer blacks, 24d; autumn j and incoming blacks. 58sd; outgoing and spring blacks, 55d; winter biacks, 86d; winter fawn, 85s; outgoing fawn, . 61d; summer fawn. 36d; hareskins, ‘ 41d io 49d. Hair, to 183 d. 1 - ~ ] TALLOW AND HEMP ' The Department of Agriculture has 5 received the following cablegram, - dated August 22, from the High < 1 Commissioner for New Zealand, j t London:Tallow: Market continues quiet on spot with prices unchanged. Hemp: Manilla: Market firmer owling to short supplies. "K” grade for < i August-October shipment sold at £23. 1 | Stocks in London on August 1. 12.953 I ’ bales, against 13.525 bales for the < ■ same time last year. Sisal: Market I continues firm. Sentember-November 6 shipment sold at £26 12s 6d: January- C March shipment sold un to £27. New f Zealand: Market nominal and un- I changed: no first-hand sales J Stocks in London on August 1. 9a 3 tons., against 23 tons for same time last year. RECORD TURNOVER j N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd. A bonus aggregating £897,069 will " l,e distributed to butter, cheese and V casein suppliers of the New Zealand - Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, on August 31, according to a statement made by the general manager (Mr. C. J. Parlane) at the annual 1 meeting of the company last Thurs- L day. Mr. Parlane said the amount, 1 due to suppliers for bonus after allow- 1 in (r for share deductions would total J £897,069, as against £640,326 distri- 2 bute’d on August 31, 1935, an increase S of £256.743. . , Defails of the bases on which pay- ? : ments were made for the last season g were given by Mr. Parlane as follows, C the figures for the 193-1-35 season be- 4 ing given in parentheses: —Butter, li average advance, 10.3731 d per lb. but- b terfat (8.0829 d cartage, railage am’ direct delivery, 0.2491 d. (0.2768 d. s< average bonus on butterfat, for butter- e making. 2.4229 d (1.8693 d total, e 12.9451 d. (10.2290 d. finest grade (carted), 13.0579 d (10.332 d total payment on finest grade delivered direct, 13.1716 d (10.446 Cd Q The average paid to suppliers to a cheese factories was 14.1933 d., including town sales of milk, and 13.9469 d., execluding town sales of milk. The p figures for 1934-35 were 11.069 d and p 10,6953 d. per lb., respectively. Casein g suppliers received a premium of 2.4356 d, as against. 2.5588 d. last year. 3 Butter suppliers will receive a j bonus aggregating £881,214 as against £582,709 last year, an increase of £ £298.505. The bonus rates for butter are based as follows: —June supply, ' 3.5 d: July. 4d; August. 1.502 d; Sep- Jr tember, 0.502 d; October, 1,502 d; ' November. 2.502 d; December. 3.002 d; January, February and March, 2.502 d; ’ April. 2.002 d; May, 0.502 d. A shareholders’ bonus of 0.25 d on June and May supply will also be paid. » During the season, the company manufactured 47,500 tons butter, 7625 tons cheese, 1239 tons casein, 6031 tons milk powder, and 1953 tons condensed milk, a total of 64,348 tons : as against 59.244 tons for 1934-35. The company’s turnover for the season constituted a record, being £7,095,564. as against £5,363,264 for the 193435 season.