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Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 September 1930, Page 10

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PEDIGREE JERS.EY BULLS

FRANKLIN CLUB’S ANNUAL

SALE

(By Telp^rnpl.—lVess Association.) PUKEKOHE, Sept. 16. Prices were more in favour of buyers to-dnv than yesterday at. the Franklin Jersey Club’s annual sale of pedigree Jersey bulls. The sale concluded today, ' when 87. bulls were offered. were sold under the hannnci. ( he lon price was 56 guineas, paid by Mr J. Findlay, of Miranda, for the two-year-old hull. Spring Hill Dan, bred by Messrs A. J. Harris and Company, of Bombay. All the two-year-old bull's were keenly competed for and .several made over 30 guineas. The highest price for u yearling was 30 guineas, paid by Mr J. H. Given, of Patumahoe, for a.' bull bred by Mr E. L. Williams, of Pukekohe West. The prices of the other yearlings sold ranged from five guineas to 27 guineas. The only mature bull offered was the six-year-old Fairy’s Golden Fern, bred by Mr E. J. Adams, of Puni, and it realised 32 guineas. The average price for the 70 bulls sold to-day was approximately 17-1 guiueais, and the, average for the lotbulls sold altogether on the two days of the sale was approximately 20 guineas, which figure is an increase of about two guineas on last year.