Wapiti hind sells for $2700

Press, 9 March 1982, Page 5

Wapiti hind sells for $2700

A two-year-old wapiti hind was sold for $2700 . at a deer auction at Coopers Creek, near Oxford, yesterday. Two. other features of the auction, a wapiti bull and a hybrid stag, both two years old, failed to reach their ■ reserve prices and were passed in. The wapiti made $3900 and the hybrid made $l3OO. The auction was the first held in Canterbury for almost two years and was described by a spokesman for the auctioneers, Wrightson N.M.A., Ltd, as satisfactory. Deer prices dropped

sharply two years ago. but observer’s believe that the industry is starting to recover. Four five-year-old red hinds sold for $1325 and two two-year-old master stags made $lOOO and $650. Two yearling hinds sold for $9OO and another made $750; five weaner hinds sold for $BOO and a pen of 11 weaner hinds sold for $650. Ten three-year-old breeding stags sold for $4OO and 65 velveting stags sold from $2OO to $320. Thirty-one weaner stags sold from’sllo to $155.