GOOD ENTRY
STOCK SALE AT PAEROA
BRISK DEMAND FOR SHEEP
Good entries came forward in all sections at Messrs G. W. Vercoes and Co. Ltd’s, sale at Paeroa last Monday and competition was keen throughout from a good attendance of buyers. A brisk demand was experienced in the sheep section, prices realised being in advance of recent sales. Yearling heifers met a bright sale, while all classes of dairy cattle and fat cattle sold fully up to recent high values a pen of yearling P.A. steers making £l2. 'Quotatoes: —Choice dairy heifers, £2l/10/- to £23/10/-; good, £lB to £2O/10/-; medium, £l5/10/- to £l7/10/-; others, £l2 to £l4/10/-. Good dairy cows, £l7 to £l9; medium, £l3/10/- to £l6/10/-; later sorts, £ll to £l3.
Heavy fat cows, £l3/15/- to £10; medium, £ll/10/- to £l3/11/-; lighter, £lO/7/6 to £ll/7/-. Heavy boners, £B/5/-. to £1075/-; light boners, £6/5/to fflllbl-. Potter bulls, £7/10/- to £l4.
Service bulls, to £18; yearling, lOgns. to 13igns. Cross bred steers, to £l2/7/6. Yearling P.A. steers, £9 to £l2.
Choice yearling Jersey heifers, £lO/4/- to £l2/5/-; good, £B/6/- to £10; medium, £7/5/- to £B/5/-; small, £5/6/- to £6/2/-; cross bred yearlings, £7/2/6 to £B/16/-.
Shorn fat wethers £2/6/- to £2/13/-. Shorn hoggets, to £2/4/-. Medium woolly hoggets, £2/15/- to £3/2/Empty woolly ewes, £2/7/- to £2/9/3. Shorn ewes with 200 per cent lambs, 35/6 (all counted); woolly ewes and lambs, 35/- (all counted). Heavy baconers, £7/4/- to S.IIQI--, medium, £6/15/- to £7/2/-; light, £6/3/- to £6/IJ/-. Medium porkers, £5/11/- to £5/15j(-; : good store pigs, £4/6/- to £4/18/-; medium, £2/19/to £3/15/-; weaners, 30/- to 38/-.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4346, 20 October 1950, Page 5
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263GOOD ENTRY Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4346, 20 October 1950, Page 5
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