RECORD PRICE FOR FAT SHEEP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13150, 9 August 1913, Page 2

RECORD PRICE FOR FAT SHEEP.

EXCITEMENT AT ADDINGTON. , At the Addington saleyardi on JSfod.nesday .a new Australasian 'record' Jar f at abeep ;was. put trp. m. the >ale".pf;^r F. Bull's Shropshire Romney and, Shjropshire cross wethers. Mr Bull jbasAwtfje before held the record^with £3 ijfr^pd two years ago, and last year ,his sheep reached £8. 'At the sale this Week- this . record was further improved upon'Snd now stands at £14 10s. A pen of .thpee 'two-shear Romney -Shropshire Jbrofcs wethers, which have won two first prijie^ at the_ Duneddn Winter Show, were '$*$*, knocked down to Messrs Dixon Bros'.'- *V £9 10a. Three other sheep of the same age and breeding "Brought £6, the bqs|| being Mr F. H. S.teel. The eensatibn^ctt tfyo sale -came when three two-shflJSr Shropshire' wethers, which beat ' tffe ■crossbreds at . the Malvem Show, ".wra sold under keen competition io 'Metujft Dixon Bros, at £14 10s per bead, aftt& established a new Australasian report Three more of the same age aaid bre<fjtj went to Mr H. Bull at £7 ss, and tbipp^ to.'ljffr F. Fairey, of Nelson, at £^^15^; Alt' the sheep were magnificent epecj 7 metis, and the sale caused considerable excitement; ' >&T