WAIPUKURAU STOCK SALE
FAT CATTLE PRICES LOWER. FAIRLY LARGE ENTRIES. At the weekly Waipukurau stock sale held to-day there was a large attendance of buyers. The yarding of cattle was fairly large and a moderate number of sheep came forward. Prices for fat cattle were somewhat lower than last week, and a number of lines were passed in, but there was a keen demand for young stock. Sheep: 17 fat ewes (shorn) passed at (18/6; 6 fat woolly ewes passed at 23/- (these were the only entries of fat sheep); 91 4 and 5-yr. shorn ewes (s.m.) passed at 19/6; also 62 5 and 6-yr. shorn ewes at 14/6, and 25 4 and 5-yr. shorn ewes (s.m.) at 19/6; 72 5-yr. woolly ewes, with 77 S.D. lambs, sold at 37/6.
Cattle: 7 prime Hereford and P.A. bullocks fetched £l4 15/-; 2 prime Hereford cows £lO 19’6: 1 prime bigframed Hereford bullock topped the market at £l5 2/6: 5 prime Hereford cows passed at £9 51-; 1 small Shorthorn cow sold at £9 8/-; 1 Jersey steer £8 7/6; P.A. steers £ll 8/6; 2 weighty Shorthorn bullocks passed nt £l3 10/-: 2 small heifers sold at £7 1/-: 4 prime P.A. bullocks (2 weighty and 2 medium) passed at £l3, 8 prime medium at £l2, 6 weighty Hereford bullocks at £l3 10/-. and 6 prime P.A. also at £l3 10/-; 6 P.A. heifers medium sold for £9 2/-: Hereford x cow and calf £8 15/-; Hereford heifer £lO 2/6; 4 prime P.A. cows £l2 8/-; 5 ditto heifers £l3 10/-; 4 prime Hereford and P.A. bullocks passed at £l4 2/6; 3 Hereford heifers sold for £ll 5/-. Stores: 3 2-yr S.H. steers. £6 8/6; J 3-yr Hereford cross steer, £8; 4 2-yr Jersey steers, £4 7/-; 1 S.H. heifer, £4 12/6; 6 P.A.-Hereford cows ("good condition), £9 15/6; 2 cows (S.H. and Jersey), £4; 3 Hereford steers (yearlings), £5 6/-: 2 yearling heifers, £3 15/-; 4-yr P.A. and S.H. steers. £6 6/-; 3 P.A. steers, £6 5/-; 26 Hereford cows and calves (light). £9 16/-; 21 P.A 15 to 18-months heifers £5 13/6; 28 2-yr P.A. steers, £9: 6 S.H. 2-yr and 3yr heifers. £6 3/-; 3 Hereford and P.A. steers (yearlings), £5 12/-; 9 yearling Hereford heifers, £6; 4 yearling P.A. and Hereford heifers. £4 10/-: 8 P.A. cows and ’3 calves (well conditioned line), £lO 1/-. Dairy Cattle: 1 yearling Jersey heifer. £6 12/6: 1 S.H. cow in calf (good condition), £l2; 1 Jersey heifer do.. £lO 10/-; 1 S.H. cross cow and calf, £6 5/-; 1 yearling P.A. bull ('purebred, but not registered), 171 gns: 2 P.A. bulls, lat 22gns., the other at 12gns; 1 P.A. bull (bred by Mr. J. MacFarlane). 20gns; 1 3-yr Hereford bull. lOgns; 1 5-yr do. (guaranteed sound), UJgns; 1 Jersey bull (Te Ante bred), 9gns; 2 light 2-vr Jersey hulls, 4tgns; 1 purebred Jersey bull, Qgns; 2 Jersey venrling bulls, 3gns; 1 2-yr Jersey hull. 34 gns; 3 2-v- Jersey heifers (light), £6 10/- and £7 10/-.'
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 281, 12 November 1929, Page 5
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