STEADY COMPETITION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 236, 18 September 1934, Page 5

STEADY COMPETITION

Waipukurau Stock Sale

Meeting with steady competition from bom outside and local buyers, witn a keen cut-in from local lariners, tat and store cattle at Waipukurau today registered a very good sale at rates that were again on the rise. The demand was steady all through the sale, owing to a shortage ol cattle, and though the quality ol the ottering was not oi the best prices maintained their increased level, Store cattle in particular had a good run with only two passings in the whole section. Prices Fat Cattle A pen oi nmo fat Shorthorn cows £1 3yd j 111 P.A. cows £4 9/-; one heavy boned P.A. bullock, a prime beast, started out at 440 and sold at that price; two P.A. and Shorthorn cross bullocks, of lighter frame and finish, £5 17/6 and £3 5/-; a fairly well sorted pen ol nine tat Shorthorn

cows £4 15/-; three iat Jersey cross cows, two ol them in good order, sold at £0 9/-, £4 15/-, and £3 5/-; a further pen ot iat cows, eight young Shorthorns, £4 2/-; five small solid framed Hereford cows, a run of young beasts, sold at £4 13/-; a similar entry of nine, bigger in the bone but of slightly lighter finish, £4 5/-; Jersey bullock, a well conditioned beast, £5 15/-; another Shorthorn and Hereford cross £6 15/-; in from the Makaretu district, a heavy prime P.A. bullock, in great order, started out at £8 to finish at £9 17/6; four P.A prime bullocks, in from the back eountty, were sold at £.>; eight fat P.A. cows £4 11/-; seven "ell fattened P.A. bullocks from the Makaretu district £6 5/-; four Shorthorn beiiers, small framed beasts, but each m good order, £4 11/-; three fat P.A. steers £5 10/-; one Shorthorn eow £2 6/-; three fat Shorthorn cows £4 6/-; three fat P A. cows £4 7/-. SLmc Cattle. A run of 15 Hereford cows ot good store order £3 11/-; in on account ot Aramoana Station, a wellbred line ot 32 station-raised P.A. Steers, passed at £5 5/-; 20 Shorthorn cows, ’ a lair average store entry, realised £3 8/-; 34 P.A. and Hereford cross cows passed al £2 18/6; offered ou account ot 11. Parsons, Wallinglord, 11 2-year-old P.A. steers sold lor £ I 15/-; a line ol 13 3-3 car-olds, off the same place, sold at £5 6/-; 1.1 wellgrown P.A. steers £5 2/-; live P.A. store cons £2 18/-; 11 lightly conditioned empty P A. cows £2 10/-; three heavy boned Hereford cows, two with calves at foot, £3 11/-; five well-grown crossbred steers £3 16/-; five P.A. cross steers £1 15/-; heavy P.A store bullocks £5 9/6; one Jersey steer £1 13,6; six well-lranied P.A. cows (in call) £1 (>.-. Fat Sheep—A pen of 23 lat ewes 17/10; 25 passed at 15/-; three heavy fat wethers passed nt 22/-; 39 prime fat ewes a good pen, mostly young sheep, fetched 23/-; 14 prime fat wether, 29/-,