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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18817, 4 March 1931, Page 2

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CATALOGUE FOR LONDON SALES. United Preee Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON March 2. New arrivals for the wool sales on March 10 are: Australian 50,000 bales New Zealand 28.000 bales, Soutl American 24,500 bales; held over 90,000 balesIt is expected that about 171,000 bales will be offered. BRADFORD TOPS MARKET. United Frees Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 2. Bradford tops market prices are hardening. Business Is restricted by the advance in wool in Australia. BRITISH WHEAT MARKET. United Press Association- -By Electrte . c.egraph—Copyright LONDON, March 2. The cargoes demand is inactive. The quotations are unchanged. Parcels are in small request and unchanged. London futures —April 19/10, June 20/-. Liverpool futures —March 4/21, May 4/41; July 4/55, October 5/7 7-8. PROLIFIC PIGS. CANBERRA STATE FARM RECORD. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright CANBERRA, March 3. What is claimed to be an Australian and New Zealand record, probably a world record, for a welght-for-age litter, has been established at the Government pig farm at Canberra, with a litter of eleven pedigreed large white Yorkshire pigs, which, at six months, weighed 25061 b, and at three months weighed 8581 b. Their sire Is described as the most i prolific, his litters averaging during . the past four years 13,1.