FREEZING WORKS TAKE NO RISKS
Export Buyers Refuse to Operate I CANTERBURY GRAZIERS TURN FLOCKS BACK [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Pear of Interruption of work at the local freezing works Ims already affected, the stock market. At Hawarden to-day, at the fortnightly stock sale, export buyers, under Instructions from their principals, declined to operate. The first line of fat lambs offered, worth 37/0 on Addington prices yesterday, brought a bid of 24/3 only, which the owner refused to accept. The auctioneer explained, as had already been reported, that export buyers could not operate and the sale was postponed. At Mcthven also, there was an almost olmilar state ,ot affairs. Many lines were passed and some owners, hearing of the decision of the exporters not to boy, turned their flocks back ■ for home before reaching the yards.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2339, 8 January 1926, Page 7
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138FREEZING WORKS TAKE NO RISKS Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2339, 8 January 1926, Page 7
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