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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 25 June 1938, Page 10

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AEERDEEN ANGUS SALE 100GN. BULL FOR GISBORNE HALF OFFERING SOLD (Special !o tin; lfinahl.) HASTINGS, this day. I A bull purchased for lOOgns. at the Aberdeen Angus sale in Hastings yesterday was for the Gisborne district. It was sold on account of Mr. T. May, Waipawa, to the Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Gisborne, and was the second highest priced animal at the sale. The top price was llOgns. for a 20-monlh-old bull olfered on account of the estate of the late Mr. W. A. Mact'arlane and bought by Mr. ,1. F. Knight, Palmerston North. Only half of the total number offered was sold under the hammer, the average being about ,‘lOgns. Purchases for the Gisborne and vVniroa districts included the following:— T. Davey, Wairoa. —From C. G. Ncstor-Bayliss, 2(lgns; from T. May, Waipawa, 27gns and 37gns; from J. A. MacfaiTanc estate, Hastings, 23gns and oOgns. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Gisborne. —From T. May, Waipawa, 50gns and 1 OOgns. PEDIGREE JERSEY SALE TOP BRICE 100GNS. J At a dispersal sale of Mr. J. L. | Heckler’s Jersey stud, Mastcrton, the j top price for the day was lOOgns.,

paid by Mr. H. R. Matthews, Bunnythorpe, for the 10-year-old leading herd sire, Tc Aule Sybil’s Marvel. Top price in the female section was 52gns„ paid for Heckler Sunlight. Mr. Heckler had not tested his cattle. Although the offering included a number of cows which were unsound in the udders and a few suitable only for breeding purposes, the whole of the catalogue, of 134 lots, averaged ltijgns DEMAND FOR POULTRY YESTERDAY’S SALE A keen demand for all kinds of 'poultry is evident at present, and the following range of prices was obtained at Harwich's Auction Marl, Peel street, yesterday: —Black Orpington roosters, young, 4s 3d, 4s tid, 4s Bd, 4s 9d, 4s 10d and 5s each; Black Orpington hens, 3s 3d, 3s 5d and 3s Gd; White Leghorn cockerels, 3s, 3s 3d and one special bird 5s fid: White Leghorn hens, 2s Bd, 3s and 3s 7d; mixed bred cockerels, 3s 7d and 3s fid; drakes, 2s 7d and 3s. There is also a keen inquiry for pullets of any breed. EGG PRICES UNCHANGED Egg prices in Gisborne remain unchanged at 2s (id per dozen, retail and 2s 2d to the producer. ‘CURSE OF SILVER POPLAR’ Power to check the spread of silver poplar, which has been desired by the New Brighton Borough Council for some years, has been taken by the council. The council took advantage of the recent addition of silver poplar to the schedule of the Noxious Weeds Act, and passed a motion formally declaring it a noxious weed. Cr. J. N. Clarke remarked that silver poplar might look very pretty, but to realise its effects it was necessary only to see •“’the curse of silver poplar on Jubilee avenue.” The Mayor, Mr. E. L. Smith, said that the council would not have power to order the clearing of pronertics.