WAIROA STOCK SALE
A small yarding of sheep and a few dairy cattle were offered at the Wairoa stock sale held at North Clyde on Thursday. Bidding was dull, but values remained firm generally, except fpr breeding ewes, several pens of wh’ch were passed in. Auctioneers quote us follows: — Hawse's Bay Farmers’.— Wether hoggets, lls 6d; aged ewes in lamb, 11s; dairy cows, £1 5s to £2; heifers, to £4 7s 6d. Dalgety and Co. —Best breeding ewes, 5year, S.D. rams, short in the wool but mouthing well, 14s 4d; older and harder ewes, 8s to 10s 9d; fat ewes, 15s Id; good fat and forward wethers. 22s 8d; very healthy woolly wether lambs, 16s 6d; smaller, from previous lot, lls 6d and 9s. Williams and Kettle.—Small b.f. hoggets, 5s 9d and 8s 8d; small 2-tooth wethers, 16s; do., very poor, 4s 9d and 7s; cull f.m. ewes, S.D, rams, 5s 3d to 8s 6d.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 4 July 1942, Page 6
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155WAIROA STOCK SALE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 4 July 1942, Page 6
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