Record price paid for pig
(N.Z. Press Assdeiation)
PALMERSTON NORTH, K June 17.
A record for a national stud pig sale, $620, was paid in Palmerston North yesterday for a South Island boar.
Mayfair Farms, of Bendigo, Victoria, paid this price for a Large White, Honnington Turkboy 23rd, offered on behalf of A. C. Jack, Balclutha. The Australian farm also purchased two other Large Whites and three Landraces, ■ including the supreme champion of the show, Timperlea Warwick 6th. Offered on behalf of G. Timperley, Coutts Island, Timperlea Warwick 6th, sold for $350.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32637, 19 June 1971, Page 22
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