ROYAL SHOW STOCK SALES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6755, 7 November 1928, Page 10

ROYAL SHOW STOCK SALES

PURCHASES FOB ARGENTINE, PATAGONIA AND TASMANIA. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. Ltd, Pedigree Stock Salesmen, report having conducted their Annual Show Sale of stud stock. A,number of important sales for export were made at auction or by private treaty to Argentine, ‘Patagonian and Tasmanian clients. Negotiations are also being continued for further purchases on behalf of New South Wales and South American visiting breeders at the Show. There is a keen demand for prize-winners. Sales reported are as follows: — _ _ On behalf of Mr. W. T. May, Hawke’s Bay, the second prize two-yoar-ol'd Aberdeen Angus bull, Bex of Matapihi, by the well-known sire, Nell of Ben Lomond ,to a Tasmanian client. Eex of Matapihi has already taken Reserve Champion honours at , Hawke s Bay and Danncvirke Shows. He realised 150 guineas at auction. On behalf of Air. W. A.TdcFarlane, Hawke’s Bay, the second prize yearling Aberdeen Angus bull, Marquis of Waiterenui, to a client at 100 guineas at auction. Marquis of Waiterenui is sired by Bland of Elcaton. imp., and his dam, Dorothy of Waiterernui, is the grandam also of the outstanding winning yearling bull at Hawke s Bay and &o Royal in the same owner s Mistral of Waiterenui. Op behalf of Air. D. P. McLeod, Opatu, King Country, the second prize yearling Red Poll heifer, Opatu No 17, to Feilding Agricultural College. This heifer, sired by Kowhai 45, and regis - ered in the A. A. class, was keenly competed for, and realised 95 guineas at auction. The yearling bull, Opatu No. IG, A. A., on behalf of the same vendor and sired, also by Kowhai 40, was sold at private treaty to Mr. B. Weston, Hunterville. ~ , A number of (naturally) Polled Shorthorn bulls were offered on beha of a South Island breeder, but no sales W On behalf of Mr. O. A. CadwaUadcr, Greytown, the yearling Friesian Kul . Sir Fobes Ormsby, by Moone Z from EoSlyn Princess Robes, at prrva e treaty to Mr. T. W. Williams, Mataroa. On behalf of Mr. A. Y. Lancaster Palmerston North, the second prizc three-year-old Jersey heifer, Bosebury Twilight, by Holly Oak Trombone from Waimana Sunshine, to Mr. H. Watson, Christchurch, at CO guineas. On behalf of Mr. Arthur O Donnell, Bunnythorpe, the yearling Jersey bulb Baleen Oxford Koyal, by Jattodoff H o S n in beha a if H. Gaisford. Dannevirke, the first prize Lincoln ram hogget, Commendation, to Messrs. P. & G b Hughcs, Buenos Aires, and on behalf of Air. W. Howard Booth, Carterton, the first prize Lincoln ram hogget at the Hawke’s Bay Show to the same Cl On S bohalf of Messrs. E. A. AverUl & Sons, Hastings, the Reserve Chamuion Eveland ram to Air. H. C. Hew fett, Omata, North Auckland, at pnvat On r bchalf of Messrs. H. Burrell & a nn c Feilding, a prize-winning boptndown ram hogget to Mr. F. Beamsley, Marlborough, and for the same bree ers a prize-winning ram hogget to Air. W. Bishell, Blenheim. . . On behalf of Mr. H. T. Little, Hui Hui, Canterbury, two prize-winning Corriedale ram hoggets to Patagonian “behalf of Mr. W. Price, Feilding, Southdown ram hogget to Mr. W. MeNauehton, Morrinsvillc. On behalf of Mr. G. E. Allin, Tipua, Masterton, fifth prize Bomncy ram to Air. F. J. Soler, Marten, at 42 at auction, and at private treaty on behalf of the same breeder his first-prize winning pair of Eomn °f ram hoggets to Air. Peter Campbell, W On d behalf of Air. A. P. Southey Masterton, his sixth prize Romney i-am. hogget to Mr. W. Bishell, Blenheim, at 45 guineas at auction.