Second Hereford Female Sale Held

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30761, 27 May 1965, Page 9

Second Hereford Female Sale Held

Slightly more than half of the 29 cattle yarded for the second annual female sale held by the South Island Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association at Temuka on Tuesday found buyers at auction. Proceeds of the sale under the hammer amounted to slightly more than 3000gns.

The cattle were drawn from Southland, Otago, and Canterbury. Purchases were made for three provinces and also for Marlborough. After the only three-year-old cow in the offering had been sold at 85gns, there was a procession of passings of the seven rising three-year-old heifers yarded. Not one of this latter group was sold under the hammer, prospective buyers’ offers being less than vendors were prepared to accept. It was subsequently announced that an entry from Heathstock Downs, Ltd. (Hawarden), which had been running with Navigator Gem, the bull for which Heathstock paid a New Zealand record price of 3500gns at the national Hereford bull sale last year, had been sold to

i M. G. and V. J. Poulter ■ (Maruia) for 250gns. It had : been passed in at auction at > this price. Another Heathstock rising three-year-old, • which had also been running I with Navigator Gem, was also ; sold privately at an undisi closed figure. ! Seven Passed In . The strong point of the sale 1 was the rising two-year-old ; heifer section. Here 14 ’ heifers ranging from UOgns 1 to 420gns average 214gns at auction, compared with 12 • averaging 152gns last ’ year, i Seven were still passed in . at auction. Cattle from H. E. i Holms (Waimahaka) domin- , ated the sale with 10 making : from. 140gns to 420gns and I averaging 251jgns. A mated ! heifer from Mr Holms topped ; the sale at 420gns. By the i imported bull Vern Monarch.

iit was purchased by the national Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., from Rawi Murray (Blenheim).

Unmated heifers also sold extremely well and Mr Holms had sales of these at 400gns (to M. Kirkpatrick, Waikaka) and at 330gns and 310gns (to D. R. Landels, Clinton). With the burst of trading that accompanied the offering of the Waimahaka cattle, the sale seemed to gain some life and subsequently a higher proportion of cattle found buyers under the hammer. In the opinion of cattlemen the standard of the offering this year showed a marked improvement on the first sale last year. Details of sales were:— Thr««-yaar-old Cow Wright Stephenson and Company, Ltd., sold on account of: E. W. Hall Trust (Valhalla): 1 at Ssgns. Rising Two-year-old Helfers National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., sold on account of: H. E. Holms (Waimahaka); 1 at 440gns, 1 at 175gns, 1 at 170gns. Wright Stephenson and Company, Ltd., sold on account of: H. E. Holms: 1 at 33flgns, 1

at 310gns, 1 at 420gns, 1 at 200 gns, 1 at ISSgns.

Canterbury Farmers' Co-op-erative Association, in association with Farmers' Stud Stock Company, sold on account of: H. E. Holms: I at UOgns. Pyne, Could, Guinness Ltd., sold on account of:

H. E. Holms: 1 at 185gns. D. W. Morrow (Okawa): 1 at 125gns. Dalgety and New Zealand Loan sold on account of:

W. T. Holms and Company (Waimahaka): 1 at UOgns, 1 at 130gns. D. W. Morrow: 1 at 115gns.