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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 55, 5 March 1909, Page 2

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MESSES ALFRED BUCKLAXD AND , SOXS- REPORT. Horses.— At the Haymarket on Friday xoV* horses realised from £21 to £23; light Harness and hacks, £8 to £LfJ- ei<ponles and ordinary riding class, £3 10/ to Hides, Skins, Tallow, etc.—Hides: Ox, 4Jd to bid; cow, 4id to 5 l-8d; calf, 4Jd tp Sid; kips, 4 <-Sd to sd; horse, 5/9 to 8/6; damaged hides, 3d to 4d. Tallow, 23/6 to 25/6- in ferior, 20/. Bones, 4/9. Skins: Large, 4/10 to 6/3; good, 3/2 to 3/8; medium 2/4 to VlOsmall and damaged 1/ to 2/3; pelts and Jambs- salted, 2/3 to 2/10; dry and damaged 8d to 1/9. ' At Wellsford on Monday we had an average yarding of stock, mhieh sold at late valnes. At Remuera on Thursday dairy cows sold from 60/ to £8 15/; dry, 30/ to 03/. The few stores yarded were dull of sale. Young and fat calves, penned iv moderate numbers, brought from 2/ to 34/ Less than the average number of fat cattle were yarded. Prices were slightly firmIs' to X si7/| ellinS fr ° m * 10/ *° "" Sheep, in fair supply, sold well up to recent quotations. Best wethers brought from 14/6 to 16/3; others, to 14/- heavy I7fo'l t 3°/6 14/; nSMeT welshts - t0 lambs^ soX!^^ 1 porters ' t0 iPRQZDX MEAT c:S s M^V g "^^fr•th^ e Lo r n e : don office, under date 4th March— "Th s o^^ 0C 2 POHADPO SHEEP SALE. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, tbis day. At the Ohanpo sheep fair Iα 500 shppn were yarded. Fat and forward lambs g %T V IV , ; less *? 5 5, 1; store lambs, 5/6 to 6/7; choice two-tooth ewes. 14/6 to 17/; smaller sheep, l-'/o to 13A0; choice four and sis tooth ewes, we to 17/1; others 13/3 to T3/I; Bound full-month ewes, 10/3 to 12/6; failing mouths 7/3 to 9/8; old ewes, 4/6 to 6/; fat wethers. 12A1; two-tooth wetEers, 10/4 to --11/5; smaller sheep, 8/1 to 9/10; fourtooth wethers, 10/6 to 11/6; two-tooth Shropshire rams. 2|gns; two-tooth English Leicesters, 2 to 2 J gns; two-tooth Bomney rams, 2.J to 4 gns; two-tooth Lincolns 3J to 4 gns; four-tooth- Lincolns, llgnsrams, 2fG to lgn.

■Messrs. Smith and Halcombe offered a number of properties at their mart this afternoon. There was a good attendance. A o-roomed house in Collingwoodstreet realised £420, .this 'being the only property disposed of. A 3-roomed iouse in Inkerman-sfcreet was -withdrawn a<t £216, an allotment in Windmill-road at £2 a foot, an allotment in Mt. Eden at £4 2/6. a villa in Clarke-street at ; £7OO, and a o-roomed house at Kjngsland at •£SS3.

When, the applications for the headmastership of the Edendale .School came before the Education Bop.rd on Wednesday, Mr. E. C. Purdie inquired why the "D" teachers had been excluded from applying for the appointment. He stated that there were a number of teachers holding "D" certificates, and these should have been allowed to apply, and the Board thus given a wider field for selection. [Parliament had said that a "D" teacher was eligible to apply, and the Board should not prevent them doing so. The Chairman (Mr. C. J. Parr) said that ■there were 44 applicants for the ETendale vacancy, all of whom were classified "CI" or higher. The"-majority of the applicants had over 20 years' experience, and comprised their very .best teachers. It was idle to suggest that under these circumstances any teacher with a lower certificate would have had a chance for the appointment. To ask "D" teachers to apply was only inviting them to dis- ' appointment. The Board had stipulated for applications from the higher grade j j teachers on the advice of the general inspector. It- was a fact that in Wellington and Christchurch. the. headmaster-1 ships of important schools were all held by men with higher certificates than "D." It was necessary to raise the standard here. The Board proposed to do it gradually— whenever a suifca'ble vacancy occurred. For the future it must be understood that the "D" certificate was not good enough to win the highest posi-. tion, though it might be sufficient for ordinary masterships.