RECORD FOR HEIFER
■"Z Press Assn— Copi/riglit) , ( TIMARU. April 18. I A world record price I . for pure-bred heifers — $43,000 — was paid for a New Zealand-owned seven-month-old Simmental at a public auction in Mittagong. New South Wales. last week Southern Breeders, a 10- . member company based at Wairaki Station, Southland, sold two heifers and two ' bulls for a total of $127,000. at the sale, the first public j auction of pure-bred Sim-;\ mentals in Australia and t • New Zealand. f A Sydney buyer purchased|t the two heifers, both aged c seven months, for $43,000, land $42,000. The chairman e 1 of the Australian Simmental , r Society (Mr R. Vincent) paid Is t $25.00(1 for a four-month-old j , bull belonging to the New r (Zealand company.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33513, 19 April 1974, Page 10
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