OTAGO FARMERS' HORSE BAZAAR.
Tho Otago Famreis' Co-operative Association of New Zealand (Ltd.) reports:—We hold our weekly horse sale on Saturday last, when we offered at auction 35 draught and light horses to a good gathering of fanners and town buyers, 'the chief source of .attraction v.as a consignment of good young draughts and spring-carters from Central Otago, and tho majority of these brought good prices. Good young geldings, suitable for shaft and lorry work, were in demand, and Bold at up to £35 10s. There was a .fairly good demand for active spring cartel's and upstanding harness horses, but aged and inferior sorts were hard to quit. Wo quote: Good young draught mares at from £32 to £38; extra good Clydesdale marcs) suitable for siud pin-poses, £45 to £65; superior young draught geldings, fit for shaft and! lorry work, £30 to £39; ordinary draught marcs and geldings, at from £23 lo £30; aged draughts, at from £8 to £15; good, strong, upstanding vanncrs, at from £25 to £30; heavy springcarters, at from £20 to £25; ordinary, at from £15 to £20; upstanding buggy mares and geldings, at from £15 to £20; hackneys and ponies, from £8 to £12.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15821, 21 July 1913, Page 4
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