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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15229, 29 May 1920, Page 5

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| .-- » I 'F.lec Tel. Copyright— fniied Pross Assn.(Australian and HZ- CaWs " Association.) ■ , LOJNDON, May 27. j Th.c . flrfidfora wool market iB quiet, awaiting the opening of the London sales. The whrat idaffcet is fairly 'active. Several Au.siralian parcels Sold at offiIcial rates. Flour is m good demand, but only a small quantity has been released. Oats are firm, La Piatas on spot being quoted at Go_ Gd. Be{U)9 are Quiet. Peas are flrrri, Tasnianiah bliies real's! ng 25s to 27s a Hundredweight, arid N?w Zealand duns 125s a Quarter.- The sugar j market is unchanged ' '

! 'The New Zealand Lean and. Merearl* ! tile Agency Co., Ltd., report helving held their weekly live stock s'aie at the Malawhero Yards on Wednesday, 20th ihst-, ' when a good yarding of sheep and a few head of cattle were offered to an average attendance. For fat stock there was very 11; tie demand, very few lots reaching owners' ideas of values. The • aemand for store sheep was again easy, and fully half our yarding was. passed m. Our yarding included 5687 sheep, oi ;' which number 2861 sold; 36 head, of cattle, 22 sold; pigs 17, all sold. The loilowing prices were realised during the 1 day: Fat wetbers, up to 325; lighter; 30s 1 M; fat owes 28s; forward wethers, 2 and > 'i-tooth, 30s 9d; small 2-tooth wethers, 24s 9d; forward ewes, 23s to 24s 9d; aged store ewesj 17s Gd; small 2-tooth ewes, 16s 6d; mixed age ewes with rams, 18s Od to 23?; woolly hoggets, 18s to 20s; ' medium do., 14s to 17s; good shorn hoggets, 17s; medium do., 15s Id; cull hoggets, 9s 2d to los SU; light heifers, £7 12=i Cd; 18-months* steers, off color, £4; dairy heifers (backwward sorts), £6 12s 6d s to £7 7s 6d; pigs, weaners 123 to 15s Cd ;■ ; ' '