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| FIRM STOCK MARKETS h u PRICE COMPARISONS ■ The'store sheep yarding at the Mntnwhero Stock sale yesterday ■was closer to the usual •winter yardings than at any time throughhut the winter period, and yet the numbers 'on offer exceeded those usually brought forward at the corresponding period last year. ■ The yarding yesterday totalled .1201), while .12 months ago there were only 600 store ■ sneep in the yards. ,4 Yesterday’s prices compare as follows —with those last week and a year ago:—
Only, small entries of store sheep and cattle are coming forward in the Waikato. The recent high quotations for station-bred ireattla, itavq been well maintained, and there ‘is keen competition for sheep, mainly hog- ' 'gets. At a Matamata sale during the week ewe hoggets reached 26s 8(1 and wether hog-ISs-til.
iT Aug. 16 Aug. 8 Aug. 15 1940 1941 1941 Wether hoggets .. 19/4 20/2 19/2 "•)' EWc 'hoggets . .. 27/7 24/8 26/3 “ V^ctlie'.i .. 20/3 22/1 — Kilt 'emu .. 23/8 13/7 13/7
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20636, 16 August 1941, Page 2
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