CLEARING SALE AT PARAWERA.
Messrs Dalgety and Company report having held a very successful clearing sale at Parawera. on Wednesday last on account of Mr S. C. Houston, who has sold his farm. There was a large attendance, and stock and implements sold at top market rates. The following prices were obtained: 202 aged woolly ewes and lambs 20s 3d (all counted), 296 ditto 20s 2d, 210 ditto 20s Id, mixed-sex hoggets 21s 3d, 4-tooth Southdown rams 4i gns., aged rams 22 gns., cull ditto ss, sows £2 3s, Devon boar £3 10s, 41 store pigs £1 4s 6d. The dairy herd consisted of good young Jersey cows, and commanded very keen competition; the best realised to 10s sd, and the 47 head of dairy cattle made an average of £6 12s. Good cows in milk made £7 to £9, medium ditto £5 10s to £6 10s, inferior and faulty £3 to £5, 2-year Jersey heifers r.w.b. £4 10s, Jersey heifer calves £2 ss, McCormick mower 14s, top-dresser £l7, block waggon £34, pig houses £3 10s each; sundries at usual rates.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3846, 16 December 1936, Page 2
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181CLEARING SALE AT PARAWERA. Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3846, 16 December 1936, Page 2
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