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New Zealand Tablet, 29 August 1912, Page 29

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Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Co., Ltd., report for week ended Tuesday, August 27, as follows:

Rabbitskins.—We offered a very large catalogue at our sale yesterday, the majority being prime skins. Competition was exceedingly keen and prices all round were fully up to last sales high rates. Our top price for prime winter does was 444 d, this price being realised for three different lots, whilst several lines ran from 38d to 44d per lb. Our top price for winter bucks was 24|d, a large number of lines running up as high as 23d per lb. We also sold winter blacks to 35Jd per lb and fawns to 29d. Quotations; Prime selected winter does 40d to 444 d; good, 34d to 38d ; seconds, 22d ; to 284 d; prime winter bucks, 22d to 24fd; seconds, 18d to 21 d; incoming, 16d to 17|d; autumns, 164 dto 17|d; outgoing, 13|d to 14d ; hawk torn, 8d to 14d; racks, to ll|d„; light racks, to lOd; spring bucks and does, to 12d; small, to sd; milky does, to 10|d; weevilly, to 8d; shocks, to 4]d; best winter blacks, 30d to 35|d; second winter black, 21 dto 22id ; fawns, 24d to 29d; hareskins, to 12d; catskins, to 8-id. ' Sheepskins.We offered a very large catalogue at to-day’s sale of which a large proportion were merinos. Competition for all good skins was brisk, but inferior lots and merino did not meet with such a ; good. sale. Quotations: Best halfbred, 8d to B^d; medium. to good, 7-]d to 7|d ; inferior, 64d to 7d ; best fine crossbred, T|d to B|d ; medium to good, 6fd to 7|d; best coarse crossbred, 7d to 7|d; medium to good, 6d to 6|d; dead and inferior, 54d to 6|d ; best merino, 7d to 7|d; medium to good, 4|d to 6d; best lambskins, 7d to 7£d,; medium, 6d to 64d.