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BURNSIDE SALE SHEEP MARKET UNDER-SUPPLIED (N.Z.P.A.) DUNEDIN, Jan. 6. At the first stock sale at Burnside this year the number of cattle yarded was 350. The sale was slack throughout. Prices could be quoted £1 a head lower than at the last sale. The top price for bullocks was £2l/2/6. Prime beef could be quoted at from £lB/2/6 to £l9/2/6. Best cows realised from £lO/12/6 to £l2/17/6, heifers from £lO/2/6 to £ll/17/6. The sheep market was under-supplied. There was a keen demand. Ewes showed a sharp rise from 4/- to 5/- a head above the last sale's prices, while wethers were better by 3/- to 4/-. The lamb market of 900 was firm from start to finish. The Increase in values could be quoted at 2/- to 3/- a head above the last sales. Best lambs met with a ready sale at 31/6, while prime fetched 27/6 to 30/-. There was a fair yarding of fat pigs, mostly baconers. Best quality made up to £5/8/-. Good baconers from £4/18/- to £5/6/-. Best porkers made from £3/10/to £3/15/-. Theer was a limited yarding of store cattle. One pen of rather small three-year-old bullocks made £lO/18/-.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22473, 7 January 1943, Page 4
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