SELLING OF SHEEP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18579, 13 December 1934, Page 4

SELLING OF SHEEP

NEW ARRANGEMENTS EWE FAIRS TO BE HELD T.wo important changes in the selling of sheep will be made at Gisborne early in the new year. Bam fairs will no longer be held at the Matawhero saleyards but at tne snowgrounds, while ewe fairs will bo tried out for the first time at Matawhero.

Special arrangements are being made by the Poverty Bay A. and P. Association for the selling of rams. The pen accommodation was extended prior to the last Show, and some thousands of rams can be accommodated now, while tenders are being called for the erection of a selling rostrum at a suitable point beside a ring into which the rams will be led. This system of selling has many advantages over auctioning in the pens, for in the ring the rams are displayed to better effect than is possible when huddled together in the pens. Such a system of selling rams at fairs has been discussed for p long time in Gisborne, but it is only this season that it has been possible to make the necessary arrangements.

In deciding to hold ewe fairs, the Poverty Bay Stockbrokers’ Association has been prompted by the desire to relieve congestion at the weekly sales held at Matawhero. The weekly sales at that time arc usually very congested, with particularly large offerings of breeding ewes, and with separate fairs set aside for the offering of such sheep both the ordinary sales and the special eviie fairs should be conducted with greater dispatch than was possible under past arrangements. It has been decided to hold two ewe fairs, one on Monday, Febrtiary 4, and the other a fortnight later!