BIG SHEEP SALE.
Twenty Thousand In Thirty
Minutes
Prices Recede.
Per Press Association
Invercargill, Last Night. At the clearing sale of tho Moa Flat sheep to-day 20,324 were disposed of in thirty minutes, the tota! money value being £17,137. With one trifling exceptio-, the whole will remain in Otago. The bidding was not so brisk as at tha Mararo sale a few weeks ago, and prices were about two shillings loss. Wethers, 4 and 6-tootb, brought 18s 6J, fas wethers 21s 9d, haif-bred do, 4-tooth 163 61 and 16s, crossbred do 2th 21s 6d, crossbred lambs (mixed sexes) 14s 6d, f.m. ewes 19?, 6th do 23s 9d, freezing wethers 193 7d, haifbred ewes 4th 22a 6d, do Bih 22s 4d and 225, haifbred wethers 6tn 18s 6d and 18s 4d, do lambs 12s 4d. Only 500 haifbred wethers were sold for Canterbury (Morven).
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 380, 29 April 1905, Page 2
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143BIG SHEEP SALE. Manawatu Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 380, 29 April 1905, Page 2
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