COMMERCIAL
MATAWHERO PIG MARKET A STRONG DEMAND There was a strong demand for pigs at the Matawhero stock sale yesterday and as a result keen competition ruled for the 'small offering of about GO pigs. The quality of the yarding was good. Values ranged as follows:—Weaners, 14s (id: slips, 18s Gd to 225; light porkers, 33s to 375; heavy porkers, 41s. WITAKATANH STOCK SALE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, held their monthly Whakatime sale on Thursday. A medium yarding came forward and sold under fair competition. The prices realised were on a par with other sales, although the demand for dairy stock lacked keenness, owing no doubt to a shortage of feed being experienced at present by farmers. Prices “were as follows: Fat cows, £4 15s to £5 15s; forward cows, £2 Gs to £4 6s; boner cows, up to 395; dairy cows close to profit, £8 to £lO 2s (id; dairy heifers, up to £5. The Mercantile Gazette records the registration of the following Gisborne company:—Jack Hughes Service Station (New 1 Zealand) Limited. Regt. as a private company, June 30. Office: Fitzherbert street, Gisborne. Capital: £IOOO into 1000 shares of £l. Subscribers: R. N. King 999, C. A. d’A. Blackburn 1. Objects: Service station, garage proprietors, and incidental.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19380716.2.97
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19684, 16 July 1938, Page 8
Word Count
213COMMERCIAL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19684, 16 July 1938, Page 8
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in