SALE OF STUD SHEEP.
BRISK BIDDING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Fcilding, June 28. A dispersal sale of the late Mr. G. C. Wheeler's Jtomney sheep and llereford cattle commenced here to-day. when 903 stud rams and ewes were offered. Buyers were present from all over Now Zealand, and from Australia. Bidding was extremely brisk all day, the sale being one of the most successful of its kind ever known in the Dominion. The highest price paid was for the ram Freeholder 13. for which Mr. W. F. Jacob paid 100 guineas, while a number of rams went over 50 guineas. Ktvos brought from 4 to 25 guineas, the latter price being paid each for two to go to Australia, where a fair proportion of the whole of the sheep will go. Hcrcfords will be sold to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1166, 29 June 1911, Page 10
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