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YESTERDAY'S LOCAL SALE. GOOD COMPETITION. A full yarding came forward at Cambridge yesterday when the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., held. their usual bi-weekly stock sale. Competition was good on beef and fleshy cows. Store cattle sold readily, a slight demand existing for in-calf heifers. Pigs were yarded in exceptionally heavy numbers and met with poor bidding. Quotations: — Fat cows £5 17/6 to £7 17/; fat heifers £4 15/ to £5 16/; forward cows £3 12/ to £4 6/; store cows £1 10/ to £2 14/; 18-months steers £4 4/ to £5 5/; 20-month in-calf heifers £5 to £6 10/; yearling heifers, £2 5/ to £2 12/; bulls £3 to £3 5/;' shorn lambs 15/0, 13/2, 11/7, IV; B.F. lambs 15/9. Pigs: Porkers 28/ to 36/; good stores 22/ to 26/; others 14/ to 18/; slips 8/ to 12/; weaners 5/ to 8/; others 2/ to 4/6; breeding sows £1 7/6 to £2.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2924, 17 April 1928, Page 5
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