HIGH PRICES PAID
ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE [ Per Press Association. ] DANNEVIRKE, Oct. 13. The annual sale under the auspices of the N.Z. Aberdeen Angus Cattle Breeders’ Association held at Dannevirke to-day indicated a strong demand for quality bulls. Of 125 catalogued, some of which did not appear, 105 were sold, there being only a few passed in. Buyers were present from all parts of the Dominion. A healthy tone prevailed throughout. Top price of 355 guineas was paid by the wellknown Akitio breeder, F. Armstrong, for Jolly of Kowhiwhi, a two-year-old offered on account of L. A. P. Sherriff, Taihape. Offered on account of the estate of A. S. G. Carlyon Gwavas, a yearling, Sussex of Gwavas, was bought by Henry Thacker of O’Kain’s Bay, Banks Peninsula, for 330 guineas while another yearling, Suffolk of Gwavas, was bought by J. E. Richardson, of Waikato, for 300gns. Other prices realised ranged from 250gns., 210gns., 180gns., 165gns., 161gns., 150 gns., 130gns., 120gns., 100gns., downwards. Top price last year was 200 gns. and the average 66 2-3gns. This year the average was 65 2-sgns., but there was a bigger offering.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 244, 14 October 1937, Page 5
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