PIG SALES
I PRICES AT TE KAUWHATA. I I Svecial to "Northern Advocate"! AUCKLAND, This Day. A good yarding of fat pigs came forward at Te Kauwhata yesterday, reports Messrs G. W. Vercoe and Co., Ltd. Competition throughout was keen, and prices were fully equal to those of the previous sale. Medium baconers made 59/ to. 63/; light and heavy porkers, 54/ to 58/; medium porkers, 48/ to 53/; light, 38/ to 47/; unfinished, 34/ to 37/; choppers, to 45/. There was an exceptionally heavy yarding of store pigs, which met a x’eady sale and practically a total I clearance was effected at advanced rates. Good stores sold from 29/ to 33/; others, 25/ to 27/; good slips, 22/ to 24/; others, 18/ to 21/; best weaners, 17/6 to 20/; good, 15/ to 17/; small, 12/ to 14/; Tam worth boars, to 44/;. sows, with litters, to 90/; maiden jsows, to farrow, to 72/. I
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Northern Advocate, 13 August 1935, Page 10
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155PIG SALES Northern Advocate, 13 August 1935, Page 10
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