WAIPUKURAU SALE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 305, 9 December 1931, Page 11

WAIPUKURAU SALE

YESTERDAY’S VALUES. A draft of P.A. and Hereford cross cows and heifers was sold, on account Fourerere Station, at Waipukurau sale yesterday. Marked preference was shown for forward empty cows, a pen realising £3, whereas a pen of cows with calves at foot from the same station made only £2 5/-. This preference is rather hard to explain, because vealers usually find a ready sale in the autumn and spring. Store wethers were the only class yarded in the store sheep pens, but buyers were very indifferent, the only sale at auction being a pen of undersized 2-tooth wethers, which realised 6/1. A pen of average four-tooth wethers was passed at and a line with not quite as much condition was passed at 6/10. BROKERS’ REPORTS. Brokers’ reports on the Waipukurau stock sale yesterday are as follow:— De Pelichet, McLeod and Co., Ltd:— 1 fat dairy cow £2 10/-, 1 do £1 2/6, 1 do £l, 1 do 15/-, 2 fat dairy heifers £2, 18 empty cows £3, 14 do £1 15/6, 29 2-yr heifers £1 12/-, 15 do £1 10/-, 19 cows and claves £2 5/-, 2 3-yr steers £1 4/-. Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd.—92 4 and 6 th wethers 7/6, 346 4th wethers 7/3, 1 empty cow £1 1/-, 1 Jersey bull £2, 1 at £1 11/-, 1 at 17/6. 404 4-th wethers 8/-. Hoadley, Son and Stewart Ltd. —7 fat heifers (light) £3 15/-, 1 Vealer £1 17/-. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.—272 2-th wethers 6/2, 1 dairy cow (2nd. calver) £2 15/-.