MATAWHERO STOCK SALES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 5

MATAWHERO STOCK SALES

There was a large attendance at the Matawhero saieyards yesterday, frhen the local stock auctioneering firms conducted their fortnightly sale. The attraction was no doubt a line of pedigree bulls offered by Messrs Common, Shelton and Co., on behalf of Messrs < Hutchinson Bros. The pans included a] line of about 400 head o^f cattle from Whakatane. The sale was one of the best of. the season, there being a keen demand for all classes of sheep and cattle. Prices fpr sheap- were well maintained at recent prices, while in the cattle pens prices were in advance. A feature of the sale was a line of prime fat bullocks offered by Messrs Dalge'ty and Co., on behalf of the late H. D. Buchanan's estate, which realised from £15 15s to £17 17s. Lighter bullocks brought from £11 5s for fats, .stores from £8 ss ; , fat cows brought from £12 5s *to £15 7s 6d, stores from £7.- Heifers brought from £7 15s to £8 15s, steers £6 2s 6d to £8 12s 6d> weaners £2 10s, calves' 36s to 395. Shorn hoggets realised 13s for culls, medium sorts to 15s, and better sorts to 18s 6d ; woolly hoggets realised up to ,19s and 20s ,6d; 4 and 6-tooth ewas brought front -23s to 255 ; ewes in lamb 245; wethers, brought from 23s 6d to 265, and to 29s 6d for good forward, lines. - ' /.-.-.

The line ,qf ten pedigree, bulls offered^ on. behalf of Messrs Hutchinson Bros, by. Messrs Common*'. -Shelton and Co. sold at the following prices: Lot 1, "Welcome ; Lad" (calved .August, 1914 ? sire Knight Erantj, 45 guineas;, lot 2, "Gad Boy" (calved September, 1914, same sire), 49 . guineas ;, lot 3, "Royal Gem" (calved August, 1914, same sire), 49 guineas; lot 4, "Old Gold Ist" (calved October, 1914, same sire), 51 guineas; lot 5. "Gisborne Ist" (calved August, 1914, same sire), 58 guineas; lot '6, ."Reform Ist" (calved August, . 1914, same sire). 54 guineas; lot 7, "Electric Light Ist" (calved August, 1914,, sire Elect, 15th), 46 guineas; lot , B, ' "Lion", (calved September, 1914, same sire), 60 guineas;-; lot 10, "Mahaki" (calved October, 1914), 53 guineas.