SHEEP RATES IMPROVE AT MORRINSVILLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22664, 15 June 1948, Page 7

SHEEP RATES IMPROVE AT MORRINSVILLE

A large yarding of fat sheep at the i Morrinsville stock sale on Friday was in keen demand at improved rates. A ] small number of store lambs sold well- i There was a good inquiry for in-lamb , 2-th ewes, but older pens were not so j free of sale. y Fat and boner cows were yarded in ' smaller numbers and values remained ! fully firm. Jersey heifer calves met a 1 mixed reception, with good calves in firm demand, while poorer-quality pens ! were hard to sell. Competition for j dairy cows and heifers was steady, > prices realised being fully ud to late f clearing sale rates. Prices:— < s Sheep.—Fat wethers, 46s to 47s 9d; < fat ewes, 31s 3d to 345; heavy fat lambs, 1 39s 2d to 435; medium, 35s to 375; light, 31s to 33s 6d; good store lambs, 24s 3d: < medium, 18s 3d; store wethers, 33s lOd ( to 34s 3d; good in-lamb 2-tli ewes, 43s 1 to 44s 6d; average, 40s; good 4 and 5- \ year ewes, 35s 6d to 37s 7d; ft-year . ewes, 32s to 345; 6-year ewes, 28s to 295. Cattle. —Fat young Jersey cows, £8 ( to £9; boner cows, £6 to £7 10s; store Jersey cows, £4 10s to £5 10s; young empty P.A. and Hereford cows, £7 to £7 10s; 2-year P.A. and Hereford-cross , empty heifers, £7 7s 6d; good quality Jersey heifer calves, £7 to £9; medium. , £5 15s to £6 15s; small, £4 10s to £5 1 12s 6d. j Dairy.— Jersey and Jersey-cross heif- ■ ers. —close to profit, £l6 5s to £l7 10s: j later calvers, £l2 to £l3 ss; small and i backward, £9 10s to £lO 10s; heifers in , milk, £l3 to £l4 10s; sound young dairy < cows, £l2 to £ls; older cows, £8 10s to , £lO 10s. 1

Fate took a kindly interest in Mr. ] John Milton Passey, of No. 4 Line, Kai- < ranga, in the Manawalu, in the small hours of a recent morning. Driving home at 3.30 a.m., Mr. Passey momentarily dozed at the wheel of his truck, and when he woke up some time later he was lying in a paddock beside the road. His truck? The vehicle had collided with a power pole and the front has practically disintegrated. The cab was rent asunder and the spokes of the driving wheel were buck ed right back. The amazing thing is that Mr. Passey had escaped without so much as a scratch.