SHORTAGE OF STOCK.
DUNEDIN, October 20. "I have never known a sale like it in the history of the Burnside Saleyards," declared a leading city butcher, to-day. "Tho prices," ho continued, "constitute a record for the yards, hardly a hnllock sold under £20. I never bought''one under £24." Certainly tilings were bad from the butchers' point of view, and they are undoubtedly going to be very bad for the housewife from to-morrow onwards. A serious shortage of fat stock is threatened in Otago. The supply of fat sheep seems to be almost exhausted. With regard to cattle. Taieri grazers never held smaller stocks at this time gf, the year, aiid although feed is .now oommg'away, there are practically no fat and forward cattle to.put on to the grass. There are a few cattle at.lnch Clutha, but several fair-sized lines from that quarter have gone to Christchurch 1 and Timaru. There are one or two good lines of fat cattle held in the .south, but most of these require from six weeks to two months to top' off before they can be described as primo beef.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8275, 21 October 1915, Page 8
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