STUD DISPERSAL SALE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1935, Page 6

STUD DISPERSAL SALE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

HASTINGS, Apnl.23 Yet another., of Hawke's Buy's" oldestablished cattle studs ended its lustoiy A\hen the Omaiunui lierd of Mi. W. Kmloss White was dispeised by auction to day Tins makes the thiid big dispeisal bale in Ilawke'b Bay in the past few months.

'Uns Aberdeen-Angus held in the past thuty yeats hit built up a gieat name fot itself, i«id buyeis veie present today horn all parts of the Noith Island. Top puce, 300 guineas., was obtained foi the senior herd sues, Actium of G\ia■vas, nlnch -»as sold to Mi. A. F. M Sunes, of Hastings. A younger bull, Obeton ot Omaiunui, sold at 100 jjfiiineas, and the prue co-\v, Noima of Omjiunui, sold at 93 Riuneas A tot<i) of 170 head was 6old, the average pi ice being m the vicinity of 20 guineas.

The surpnsc of the sale w.i^ the pnnncr in -which feome" of the old cows hold, some of 14 jears of age making from 15 to 22 guineas, wlile a. Yl ycir-okl cow, with calf at foot, made 19 gmnrns The purchases veie well dibtubutetl tluoughout the island, Ec\er,il going to the Wauar.ipa, lianawatu, AtiLkland, dnd IJo%l Jo% erty B.iv districts.

At Forli, in Italy, the prefect under Fascist Government recently confiscated the land of a local landlord because be was neglecting it. The estate bne been handed over to the management of the local Union of Farmers.