VALUE OF JERSEY WEEK

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1930, Page 11

VALUE OF JERSEY WEEK

SALES IN NORTH TARANAKI. SUM OF £13,133 IN FIVE DAYS. Quietly, and unostentatiously as far as most people in Taranaki are concerned, Jersey week in North Taranaki has just passed. Yesterday., and to-day the sales were concentrated in Central Taranaki, and next week they move south. The great majority of people, how-, ever, Who have pursued .their daily round this week and divided their thoughts between football and earning a living, have probably not realised what a big thing financially Jersey Week has meant to the New Plymouth district. In spite of falling butter-fat returns and unemployment the prices for stud stock this week showed an appreciable increase on those of the last year or two, and a sum of no less than was paid, at five pedigree Jersey sales for a total of 347 cattle offered. It is a fine feather in tho cap of Taranaki that the province is regarded so unmistakeably by the rest of New Zealand as the home of the elite of the Jerseys, for outside breeders from all over the Dominion, especially from the Waikato and East Coast districts, purchased the majority of the cattle. Thp.t buyers were not afraid to pay-for good stock is apparent from the fact that one cow brought 3524 guineas, one 275 guineas, one 210 guineas, one 200 guineas, and quite a number between 100 and 200