DISTRICT QUOTATIONS

Northern Advocate, 29 October 1949, Page 2

DISTRICT QUOTATIONS

KAMO. -Prices for finished beef lines and good store cattle remained steady at Kamo, but other classes were easier.

Quotations were: Best dairy cows, c.t.p.. £l4 to £ 10/5/-; backward cows, £9 to £lO/5 cows in milk. £9 to £ll/10/-; dairy neifers, £9 to £l3; grade service bulls £lO :o £2O; Ayrshire bulls. 20 to 20gns, l’at cows. £l4; 4-year P.A. and Hereford steers, £l7/19/-; 3-year Shorthorn steers, £11.7/-; 2-year Hereford steers, £ll/3/-; 2 and 3-year P.A steers, £ll/7/0; 3-year coloured steers, £lO/10/-; 4-yeai Jersey steers, £11.15/-; 2-year Shorthorn steers. £7 to £lO/4/-; small 2-year Shorthorn steers, £6 to £</o/-; yearling Hereford steers, £7/15/-; yearling Shorthorn steers, £5/17/0 to £i/17/6; store cows, £7/10 - to £9 2/6; 2-yeai Shorthorn heifers, £8; small yearling Shorthorn heifers. £3/10/-; yearling Jersey heifers, good quality. £3/1,- to £& 7/-; small. £4/15/- to £7/5/-; mixed coloured yearling dairy heifers, £3/10/to £4/8/ -; cows and calves, £9/10/- to i'll' boners, heavy, to £3/10/-; baconers, iieavv £6/12/- to £7; medium baconers. £6/5/- to £6 11 -; porkers. £o 10/- to £6/2- ; stores, £3/15/- to £4/6/-; slips. £3/4/- to £3/12/-; good weaners, £2/5/to £2/12/-; small weaners. £l/7/- to i £2/3/-; choppers. £4/18/- to ~7.1a -horn hoggets. £l/13/-.

DARGAVILLE PIG SALE.—Prices <n ine Qargaville pig sale were: Bacon pigs. ii. porkers. £5 to £5/1/-' stores. £4 2/- to £5; slips. £3/1 - to £3/18/-; weaners, £l/0'- to £2/13/-; sows in farrow, £■> to j £8 11/-: choppers. £4/17/- to £7/12/b "The Crown Prosecutor says it is a ! classic example of the work of a con- ! fidence man. I think he is right, said the Chief Justice (Sir Humphrey O'Leary) to William John McCrea, 47. painter, who appeared for sentence with William McDermott, 22, seaman. Both had been found guilty of false pretences involving LSOO, the property of Roy Maurice Oldridge, a Paremata storekeeper. His Honor commented that McDermott had been brought into the scheme toward the end. McCrea was sentenced to two years’ hard labour and McDermott to nine months’ hard labour.