Dairy Herd and Machinery Clearance.
There was a good bench of buyers at the farm of L. L. Paulson estate, Waerenga-a-hika, yesterday when the Gisborne Sheepfarmers' Frozen Meat and Mercantile Company, Limited, conducted a clearing sale. Jersey cows made from £9 10s to £l7, a heifer £lO 10s, and a rising nine-year-olct bull £9. Bidding was strong for a steel-shod farm tractor, which sold for £2BO- - machinery offered showed evidence of careful maintenance, and that fact had a bearing on the prices offering. A scarifier made £BS and a double-furrow plough £BO. There was a good clearance of sundries, for which satisfactory prices were paid. Coast Streams Dropping.
The heavy rain on Tuesday night and yesterday morning in the Bay of Plenty and Cape Runaway area eased considerably yesterday afternoon, and reports this morning received by the Gisborne office of the Automobile Association (Auckland) indicated that the streams in that area were dropping rapidly. The weather was clearing this morning and it was expected that by this afternoon (lie East Coast scenic highway between Te Araroa and Opotiki would again be ooen. -
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22696, 22 July 1948, Page 6
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182Dairy Herd and Machinery Clearance. Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22696, 22 July 1948, Page 6
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