JOHNSONVILLE SALE
: Messrs. Wright, ; Stephenson. and Co.,Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on Johnsonville sale held, op 25th August as follows:—To the usual; attendance'of. buyers we submitted an average yarding of cattle and sheep. Prices for cattle were on'- a ■ par : with last .week's rates. All classes of. sheep, with the exception of lambs,, suffered a decline. There was a. fair demand for: wethers at reduc-ed-limits, prices being down Is to Is 6d per head, while ewes were easier to the extent/of 2s to 2s 6d.per head. Lambs met. with a good demand at late rates.' We qaote:—Bullocks, heavy, £10, £9'l7s 6d, £9-los, £9 7s6d, £9 2s 6d, £8 15s; bullocks, £8 10s, £8 7s 6d, £8 2s 6d, £B'to £7/ 12sj 6d; cows, heavy, £7 10s, £7 7s 6d,,£7,t0 £6JOs; cows, £5 15s, £5 10s! £5 7s 6d, £4a7s 6d;. vealers,'£2 16s, £2 Ss, £2 3s, £2 2s, £2, £1 15s, £1 13s, .£1 10s, £1 Bs, to £1 os; wethers', heavy, 20s 19Vl0d, 18s 9d, 18s 6d, 18s Id; wethers, 17s 6d, 17s 4d, 17s, 16s 6d, to 15s;'wethers light, 14s, 13s 9d, 13s 3d; ewes, heavy, 18s Sd,:l7s 6d, 17s 2d, 17s; ewes, 15s 3d,; 15s ld,: 15s, 14s 6d, to 14s; lambs, heavy, 17s 6d,175, 15s Od; lambs, lls, 13s, 12s 3d,, to Us 3d,' ( • ■. . ■ . ..... , . ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 50, 27 August 1931, Page 12
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220JOHNSONVILLE SALE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 50, 27 August 1931, Page 12
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