High Stock Prices Rule Across Tasman

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 8

High Stock Prices Rule Across Tasman

While £7 Os Id may bo a record price for Merino wethers in New South Wales as claimed in a cable message or, Tuesday, the buoyancy of the market in Australia may be judged when it is realised that that was no mere isolated caso of high prices. There was a record clearing sale at Tooranie last month when quality stock and chattels were offered on account of a well-known and respected farmer. Mr. J. B. O'Donnell, and which attracted an attendance of 1000. High prices were the order of the day. states a report in the Moulamoin Times. Following are the principal sales:—Two thousand three hundred, Merino wethers, rising two years old. August shorn. £6 2s: 850. Corriedale-Merino-cross wether weaners, September shorn, £5 Is; Hereford heifers, joined, 2i and three years old, £2? 10s, Hereford steers and heifers. 12 months old. £ls: Shorthorn cows and calves, to £32 10s; brood mares, to 120gns.; 1946 utilitv truck. £740: complete unit fumigat'or. £235: Koertz woolpress. £IOO, 4-piece rosewood bedroom suite, £170: Wertheim piano. £170; walnut sideboard, £59. This probably would be the largest clearing sale ever conducted in southwestern Rivcrinn. the stock alone realising over £20,000.

Spread of Fruit Fly As all mainland Australian States have recorded outbreaks of fruit fI.V--this will have an effect on fruit shipments to U.S.A., Phillioines and West Indies, which have applied a ban on fruit from all States ex-coot Tasmania, states The Orchardisl of New Zealand. Experiments are being made to d:~covor methods of sterilisation prior to or during transit.