BETTER PRICES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11981, 23 February 1932, Page 4

BETTER PRICES

PAHIATUA SHEEP FAIR BIDDING VERY KEEN. Associated Live Stock Auctioneers, Ltd., report having held their second Paliiatua fair this season when they offered yesterday a yarding of 13,600 sheep, principally breeding ewes, with several pens of lambs and wethers. Included in the yarding were several lines of outstanding two-tooth ewes which met with spi rited competition and realised top market rates. There was a large attendance of buyers, Manawatu. Hawke's Bay and lower Wairarapa being well represented. Bidding throughout the sale was keen and practically a clearance was effected at very satisfactory to vendors. tions: Account Saunders Estate, 402 four-year ewes lls Id, 296 five-year ewes 8s Id; account Griffith and Co., 193 four-year ewes IG-, 6d; account IV. B. Lowes, 248 four and five-year ewes 9s; account R. \V. Kebbell, 182 four and five-year ewes 9s Id ; account C. Douglas, 139 four-year ewes 9s od : account E_ R. Winkler, 202 six-tooth to fiveyear ewes 9s 3d ; account -J. Anderson, 170 four-year ewes 9s llkl ; account Le Lievre Estate, 185 fouryear ewes 10s; account Edmonds Bros., 170 five-year ewes 8s 6c!; account J. Olsen, 130 five-year ewes 9s 3d; account J. E. Hewitt, 50 four and five-year Romney ewes 9s 7d; account L. Houlbrooke, 140 four and five-year ewes 9s 4d; account F. IV. Blatchford, 66 four and five-year ewes 9s od; account Turner Bros., 120 five-year ewes 9s 4d; account R. Harman, 73 four and five year ewes 8s <d; account Mrs A. Wilcox, 207 four and fiveyear ewes 7s sd; account J. D. Piper, 214 five-year ewes 7s 4d. 283 ditto 6s 6d ; account Piper and Co., 169 five-year ewes 6s 7d ; account R. D. Buckley, 160 five-year ewes 7s 8d; account J. Bambry, 21< iour-vear ewes 7s 6d; account J. H. George, 176 four and five-year ewes 8s; low conditioned four and five-year ewes made from 5s to 6s

Bd. In the young ewes Mr J. E. Hewitt topped the market with a line of 99 purebred Romney twotooth ewes at 15s Id, 74 ditto at 14s 2d. and 70 four and six-tooth ewes 12s. A splendid line of 298 two-tooth ewes account C. T. Richardson, IVaitiwhiti Station, sold well at 14s Id, and 110 six-tooth ewes made 12s Id. Other prices for young ewes were: Account J. J. Sorenson, 239 twotooth ewes at 13s lOd; account Ngarata Station, 258 four-tooth owes at 10s 6d; account R. Dougherty, 164 two-tootli ewes 10s 2d ; account A. Ruskell, 60 two-tooth ewes 13s 9d; account Hillas Estate, 100 two-tooth ewes 12s 7d; account Nelson Bros., 176 two-tooth ewes 12s Cd; account R. Vial, 63 t- id tooth ewes 10’s 3d; account R. Kebbell. 103 two-tooth ewes K’.s 6d. Other lines of small two-tooth ewes made from 6s to 9s 3d ; medium four and six-tooth ewes from 7s lOd to 10s 3d. In store sheep the following sales were effected: 67 two-tooth v. ethers at 9s 2d, 101 ditto 9s 3d, 109 ditto 8s lod ; 143 b.f. lambs 7s, 44 ditto 7s Id. 30 ditto 7s; 138 small shorn wether lambs 4s 4d, 62 ditto 2< 8d; 140 small shorn ewe lambs 5s sd, 68 ditto 3s 7d ; cull lambs Is 6d to 2s 7d; two-tooth Southdown rams 2 j to 3gns; aged Southdown rams 1| gns.