COMMERCIAL PLEASANT POINT SALE
STORE LAMBS SELL WELL About 60 head of fat cattle of mixed quality were yarded at Pleasant Point yesterday. Any beasts showing quality commanded keen competition. About 1200 fat lambs of very mixed quality were yarded and«one and a half races of fat sheep. Fully 800 rape lambs were forward in the store pens and competition was very keen, values realised in this section in some cases being over and above prices realised in the fat lamb pens. Values were: Fat Cattle.—Prime heavy bullocks, £l6/2/6 to £l9/2/6; prime medium, £l2/17/6 to £l5/7/6; prime heavy heifers, £l2/2/6 to £l5/2/6; light to medium, £9/2/6 to £lO/17/6; prime heavy cows, £lO/17/6 to £l3/7/6; light to medium. £5/7/6 to £B/2/6. Store Cattle. —Bulls, £5/10/- to £B/7/6; 18-month steers and heifers to £B/7/6; three-year-old steers to £ll/12/6; two-year-old steers to £B/15/-; dairy cows and heifers, £B/10/to £l2.
Fat Sheep and Lambs.—Prime heavy lambs, 27/10 to 33/7; prime. 22/10 to 25/10; light to 22/1; prime heavy wethers. 31/1 to 34/1; medium to 28/7; prime ewes, 20/4 to 26/10; medium to 18/-. Store Lambs.—Rape lambs, best, 23/6 to 25/5; good, 21/6 to 23/-; small, 15/1 to 18/6.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23113, 30 January 1945, Page 6
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194COMMERCIAL PLEASANT POINT SALE Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23113, 30 January 1945, Page 6
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