NEW STOCK SALEYARDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 21 January 1936, Page 2

NEW STOCK SALEYARDS

OPENED AT RUATORIA FIRST SALE YESTERDAY LARGE ATTENDANCE Tim first sale in the new slock yards at Rnatoria was held yuslerdav bv Messrs Williams and Kettle, Limited, ami the Gisborne .Sheepfanners F.M. and At. Company, Limited.

About 2500 sheep wore offered, in addition to 450 cattle, and a big crowd of buyers attended. All present expressed themselves as pleased Dial stock sales would be held in Rualorin once more, after a lapse of a number of years, and farmers were pleased with Die lay-out, of the yards. The sale was a very satisfactory one. Values were on a. parity with Ala I a whom, and everything was sold, all hut two small lines being disposed of under the hummer, the two exceptions readily changing hands afterwards.

In Die shop section, a good class of animal was included in Die offering, and prices included: -I- and 5-year ewes 225; -1-, <5-, and >B-tooth ewes,

22s lOd; 2-toot,h owes, 23s lOd and 245; 4-toolli ewes, 25s fid; -I tooth wethers, 20s 7d.

Cattle offered were mostly young, and a good sale was effected, juices including: Rolled Angus heifers, 2year, .22 His; young Hereford steers, i’.'i Ills; Rolled Angus steers, .lit 9s; cows and calves, £5; Rotted Angus bullocks, C 7 2s fid; Rolled Angus steers. 2-year. £5 ,15s; fi Hereford steers, small, £4.