GOOD PRICES AT NEW PLYMOUTH

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 11

GOOD PRICES AT NEW PLYMOUTH

The week of annual sal«s of pedigree Jersey cuttle in North, Taranaki was brought to a conclusion on Friday, i says the News,, when an offering from I the members of the New Plymouth Jersey Breeders' Club was put under the hammer at the A. and P. showgrounds, Uanvakaiho. | In all 47 animals were offered for sale, 41 finding purchasers at a total !of £2348 6s 6d, an average of over £56 ! for the 41 heifers sold, a three-year-old cow offered by Mr. F. AY. Cornwall bringing in £75 12s. Buyers were present from all parts of the North Island and from the South Island. < The quality of the animals offered was very good, and -although bidding slackened oft" at times, there was keen competition for animals of noted pedigree. Top price was realised for Mr. F. W. Cornwall's Oakland's Queen Bee, which found a purchaser at 110 guineas. Maori Cloudy, one of Mr. Harper Lepper's heifers, ran Oakland's Queen Bee a close second for top price, being taken at 108 guineas. The only other animal to run into three figxires was Mr. Cornwall's Oakland's Rose Bud, which went to a Christehurch buyer at 100 guineas. . i The sale was conducted by Messrs Newton King, Ltd.. in conjunction with Messrs Wright, Stephen son and Co., Wellington, the auctioneers being Messrs Ken Kirk and J. C, Broad, of the respective firms. Interest was add. ■ Ed by the presence of Mr. C. E. Rob- ,: ertson, head of Wright. Stephensou's, stud stock department., \