EXPENSIVE BEEF.
VALUES AT WESTFIELD. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 23. Butchers are concerned at the extraordinary prices they had to pay for ;■ beef at the Westfield fat stock sale to- » day. For the second week in succession prime ox made up to 426 per 1001 b —the highest realised at this time of . the year in the memory of dealers ( over a period of twenty years. Values , reached this level in the spring of 1930, but then, as in every later season, they receded in the New Year. The present scarcity of fat cattle appears to be due to the activity of exporters, who have been buying cattle for chilling.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 2
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111EXPENSIVE BEEF. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 2
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