SHEEP VALUES DROP

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21605, 6 January 1945, Page 4

SHEEP VALUES DROP

MATAWHERO SALE STORE WETHERS TO 18/A decline of from 1 s to 2.s per head in si.cep values was a feature of the first Matawhere sale of 1945 liiild yesterday. The v.inline was fairly large, comprisin'.: :!557 iambs ami about 778 older sheep. Wellirrs ranged from 8s 10(1 to 18s, for a guild line of lambs from the Tombleson stale. Waimata, and prices for ewe.from 10. sld to 16s Bd. In the fat sheep section there were only 170 yarded. The fat cattle entry comprised mostly dairy sorts with some station sorts. Passings were frciiucul. , , Store Sheep.—Fifty-five fat anil forward v, ether lambs, 17s 111; 125, do., 15s (id: !V~ du (p), ,15s; 810. IVhitiwiiiti station, lbs: 107 datawai station, 17s; 150, do, 14s Id: -I" do. Ids (id; 80. Southdowns. fat and forward, 10s ltd; 170, shorn, account J. Burke, Waimata. 17s Id; same vendor, smaller. Ids Oil; (ill do., ids 7d; 50, account s. Bridge, Ids; 135. shorn, Us 4(1; 7-, ac.•iiniti Tombleson estate, 18s; 86 vvooßj. Oroko. 11s tld; ".33, woolly, 17a Id; . - woolly, high eonntry, 8s lOd; 201, do., Bjs. in" shorn, Tombleson estate, t2s 1(1. Ewes. —201 on account of Gardiner. (Poke JOs 3(1: 53. account S. Bridge, 14s ::d • jo do, 10s Id; 91. high country, 12s Id; 00, Us 4d; 202 2th. wethers (P), ’->* .1,1: 07 fat and forward (p). -3s (»d, ,io.. <p), 10s: 122 4th. pwps (p). *Fat Sheep. —Ten ewes, :19s; 13, TciUm. 17s- IS Southdown 2th wethers, Jus; i Romneys, 20s lOd: 22 2th. Wethers. -If Fat Cattle?—--One P.A. heifer, TB 11s; 1 J> \ ami 1 Hereford cow, £S; 1 Jersey (ph ej; 1 man (p), .C 7 9s; 2 reds (P). // 17s (id; 3 Jerseys (p>, i'4, Bsu - -letsej (t ). iik; l voting Jersey, .€5 Us; 1 do.. 17 7s fid; 4 P.A. VOWS <p), « S*; 2. Hereford. f 8 Ms: 1 Jersey hmfer, L 4 10s, 1,.,..., v 11 18s; 2 jersey (pi. £•> -s <’il. - vrslers. £2 ss; 1 do., £1 15s; 1 do.. A., ins; 1 do.. Adt 2s.