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(Elcc. Tel. Copyright-United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. CabVe Association.) % 'Lo(NßONviru]y 14. At the wool gales prices were firm -at recent rates. : Gii»ssbredsV'tre' \tnchanged, but theiie is stronger general competition. :i . The following prices toa.ve bee*n realised for the fleece 'portioris 'bf the Npw Zealand clips named: Highfield, top price 22^d, average price Zl^d j Avondale, 22d and 20* d ; Way,' i94d and 17£ d. {' •On' -the Bradford market 'there is small business. Merinos and fine cmssbreds •ir;: cxti-i.TKi-.ly firm with a hardening tendency. " Low crossbreds a"re sligfitly easier. Sixtyfourn SZd, siupei* 60's 51d, 56' 40d, 50's 33d, 46>-28id, 40's 27id. The New Zealand Loan aaid Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report of their fortnightly live stock sale held at the Matawlxero yards on' Wednesday^ 12th hist;' The large advertisement of cattle attmHed a' good ' attendance of settlers, most of whom Arere keen on business. We yarded 2288 sheep and sold 1545, also 764 head of cattle (679 sold) also 12 pigs. All classes of sheep were selling at figures much m advance of last sales prices, while tha unlimited demand- for cattle created high "prices for all sorts. , The following figures wore realised during the day., Fat ewes 27s 6d to 29s 6d, -forward *ewes 23s- to 24s 6d, mixed age ewes with rams' 29s 3d to 30js, full mouth owes with rams 23s 6d to 27s 3d, forward wethers 51s 6d, cull hoggets lls 6d, cull ewes 17s, fat bullocks. £13 15s to £15 10s, light steers £10' 15s, t\yo-yeav steers £10, 18---months stesrs £6 17s 6d to £7 17s 6d, fat cows £9 5a to £11 *-ssj forward cows £7 IPs to £8' issV4short lioW'heifere m calf £11; 2i-yeam heifers m calf £9 12s 6d, smaller ditto £8 2s 6d, »Btore 6ows £7 ' 15s td • £8! -9s ' 6d, ; '18-mohths heifers £6 to £6 6s j 'dairy 'heifers' springing £8 ss* ! toi £10, 15s. cows in< profit '£11 10s, Weaner3 £4 17s d. oalves £2 15s ; pigs, baconevs. :'£3;' porkers "3Qs, slips 20s.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14045, 15 July 1916, Page 5
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