RECORD SALE OF STUD STOCK

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 January 1923, Page 9

RECORD SALE OF STUD STOCK

A 10,095 GUINEAS' DEAL

Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., leport having completed through their recently established Stud Stock Department, what must easily rank as a record deal in stud stoc_ for the Dominion, if not for Australasia. The total sum involved.is £10,599 15s. On behalf of Messrs Henry Collins aiw Co of South Australia, they have sold vi Marlborough, Canterbury, Otago and Southland provinces, over 600 Merro • Sieep for a total of £5565. Since completing the sale of these inerinos, they have sold to Messrs Collins and Co 34 head of high-class New Zealand bred Friesian cattle for export to South Australia, at an average nrice approximating £150 ncr head. It will thus he seen that a very fair exchange has been made between the two countries of h-iesian cattle for merino sheep. Messrs Collins and Co., Ltd., have now purchased over 100 head of New Zealand bred Friesians, about 60 head of which have already been safely landed in South Australia, The next shipment is being made this month per"the Moerake. hy Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd. The recent purchases of Friesians were made f;om the studs of Messrs John Donald <Wanganui). H. W. Hoskin (Taranaki), W. I. Lovelock (Palmerston North), John Grigg (Longbeach), T. H. Overton (Lakeside), and L. R. Stoddart (Willowby). Included are no less than five championship winners and cows with butter-fat records up to 8021bs. of !>ut- , ter-fat in 365 days." The keen demand I for Friesian cattle from Australia is making it very difficult to fulfil «ir.ders, i hut there is no doubt that this big stud j will in time prove a great advertiseI ment for New Zealand bred stock, as expense wlsll not he spared in maintaining the herd at the very highest k\el.