MATAWHERO YARDING
SIX THOUSAND SHEEP
WETHERS AT 36/6
Approximately 6000 sheep, including some 500 in the fat pens and a small yarding of fat cattle met with a good demand at the weekly sale at Matawhero yesterday, the majority changing hands under the hammer though in a few cases the vendors’ reserves were not realised. Wether hoggets with a few pens of ewe hoggets comprised the big proportion of the yarding. In conformity with recent trends breeding ewes were not sought after. Top price of the sale, 36s 6d, was paid for a line of 49 four-tooth wethers in the store section. Breeding ewes realised up to 36s 3d. In the fat cattle section Jersey cows were sold at from £4 to £7 and veaK ers at from £3 10s to £4 17s. The following details show the range of prices and passings. V.tl Fat Sheep Wethers. —Ninety-five, 365, passed; ’5 345: 47, 32s 9d, passed; 14, 325, passed. Ewes.—Sixteen, G. V. Smith, 29sl6df 8,28 s Id; 65, 27s 6d; 41, 275; ,22, 26s 6df others, 24s to 265; second grade, 23, 21s 3d; 23. 19s 9d. Store Cheep Wether Hoggets.—One hundred and two. 25s 3d; 112, Pukerua, 255; 120 Est. F. Gaddum, 24s 9d; 90, W. J. Overy, 24s 7d; 168. Matarangi, 23s 4d; 285, Pukerua. 235; 248, Parakanapa, 22s Id; others, 15s to 19s; culls. 10s to 13s; 4th., odd 6th., 49, 36s 6d; 2th.. 210, 33s 2d, passed; 2th., 52, 335; 2th., 97. 335; 2th„ 73, 29s 3d. Ewe Hoggets.—One hundred and sixty-two, W. J. Overy, 26s Id: 135, M. McDonald, 25s 9d; 142, Pukerua, 24s 4d; 244. Est. J. Hutchinson, 235; others, 16s to 20s; culls, 10s to 13s. Breeding Ewes.—Ninety-seven, 4th to 4yr. b.w.r., Southdown, Turf Club, 36s 3d; 107, 4th., b.w.r., Southdown, S. D. Bryant, 33s 9d, passed; 82, 4yr„ b.w.r.. Southdown, Turf Club, 33s 8d; 126, 4th. and 6th., b.w.r.. Southdown, S. D. Bryant, 295, passed; 70, 4th., 6th., Bth., b.w.r., Romney, Est. J. Hutchinson, 27s 6d; 70, 4th , 6th., Bth., same, 275; 143, syr., b.w.r., Romney, 24s 6d. passed; 63, syr., same, 23s 6d.
Down Cross Lambs.—Sixty-nine, 23s Id; 35, 18s; others, 14s to 16s.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 5 June 1948, Page 6
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363MATAWHERO YARDING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 5 June 1948, Page 6
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