HAWKE'S BAY STOCK MARKET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXI, 28 January 1911, Page 2

HAWKE'S BAY STOCK MARKET.

At the Stortford Lodge sale on Wednesday, fat sheep were in fair numbers, and were all well competed for. Store sheep consisted of pens of forward ewes and wethers, forward lambs, and 2 and 4-tooth wethers, all of which only met fair competition, a few pens being passed in. Fat ewes 9s lid, mixed sex cull lambs 6s, 8 Border Leicester rams 17s, 1 Shropshire ram £1, rape lambs 8s 3d, 2-tooth wethers 9s ; 3d, shorn lambs Bs, brown lambs 3s i 4d, ewes and lambs 3s 6d.

PALMERSTON STOCK MARKET. 1 Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report: At our Palmerston North sale on Thursday, the 26th inst., we had ;an exceptionally heavy yarding of sheep and a medium yarding of cattle. Owing, no doubt, to the dry spell we are experiencing bidding for all i classes of sheep was dull, especially ; lambs, but we managed to quit almost ;; everything at prices slightly lower than ! last week. Cattle sold well at late [ j rates. We quote: Sheep. 4 and 6- ' tooth ewes 15s and 15s Id, aged culJ ! I ewes 4s 6d to 5s 6d, woolly lambs 4s .i 7d to 9s 2d, shorn' lambs, small, 2s to I 3s 5d good 7s 7d to 8s Id, fat wethers ' j 14s Id, fat ewes Is Id, 2-tooth wethers : 110s.