COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 294, 6 April 1921, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

DUNEDIN RAM AND EWE FAIR. (Per Press Association.) „ v , > - ; DUNEDIN/. April 5. ■ Tlio "'annual ram and ewe -fair wiis held t-.i -day, WihOn :the .attendance: 0f,.. buyers: end spectators .execededi 300. There was a fair. selection of various breeds, but no Downs . or Lincoln*., ; The' quality .as. : a whole was very' fair, but no big pi-ices v.ero secured. However, the demand was better than .anticipated: A few stud' sheep v.oro. offered, -bin no exceptional pricey v.'qro recorded. Two stud Corriedalc ram? from the Now Zealand Australian Land Company's Mocruki Estate made 25 and 20 guineas'.'- The best. of. the siud Border Leicester rams made 17 and 13 guineas, ;:td were fold on account of Murray. 8r05.., of Clydovak, and Thomas'Lockheed, of To- Houka. respectively'; ; nims made 4 to 10£- guineas, El6c.lv Border Leicester? realised "'• \\ to l\ guineas. Romncy flock ranis made -1£ to 4; guineas. Corriedalc flock, rams realised up'to 9 Rjiincas. this figure, being obtained for, some- animals ..penned by J. A. Johnstone, i Bushy Park. In a general way buyers wore discriminating, and stood off anything lacking' bloom and carrying woo! at all coarse.. The demand' on the whole' for flock sheep may lie deemed bolter than was the case last year, when sheep were penned far ,in excess of buyers' .require-, monis ; and this despite private and dispersal 'sales, which liaye-, taken place recently. - ... -