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£6825 For Charolais fN Z Press Assn —Copyright) LONDON, July 9. I A Canterbury farmer, Mr; D. Robertson, of Tipapa, yes-* terday paid a British record price for Charolais cattle when he bid £6825 for a 15-month-old heifer at the Royal show at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, the “Daily Express” reported. In a frantic 90 minutes of bidding more than £83,350* was paid for 36 British-bred; Charolais cattle on auction for the first time. The massive white animals.* which were imported from; France after a fierce contro-i versy nine years ago, are now the most keenly-sought' beef cattle in the world. Americans paid nearly £50,000 for 20 animals. I
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Press, Issue 32345, 10 July 1970, Page 14
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