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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9700, 3 November 1909, Page 5

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(By Telegraph—Special to Daily Times.) JOHNSONVILLE, Tins Day. Messrs Abraham ami Williams, Ltd., report on their Johusouville sale as follows:—We offered a good yarding of prime sheep and cattle, which sold readily at late rates Best bullocks, £1) to £9 2s (kl, equal to 2ls (id per hundred ; good shorn wethers, 13s 4u to 13s 7d; prime shorn ewes, 13s to 13s 7d; good ewea, 12s 7d; prime woolly wethers, 19s Id; medium, 18s; medium woolly ewes, los (id ; plain, 14s <)•!. A heavy yarding of lambs realised: prime, 11s; goorl, 10s 3d to 103 sd; others, 9s lid to 10s.

Messrs Abraham aud Williams, Ltd., report on their Pahiatua sale held yesterday, as follows:—We iiad a good yarding of sheep aud cattle submitted to a large attendance. All classes of sheep met keen competition, and cattle up to late rates. We quote:—Ewes aud lambs, 17s («d to 20s 9d ; young dry ewes, 15s 2d ; fat ewes, los Id ; hoggets, good. 14s <5d to 15s 4d; small hoggets, 9s; 2-year steers, small, £3 3s (id; fat cows, light, £3 los to £4; springing dairy cows, £4 7s (5d to £5 10s; cows in calf, £3 10s to £3 16s; cows aud calves, £2 18s Gd to £3 4s; forward cows, £2 los £3 4s; springing heifers, £4 2s 6d to £4 los; backward heifers in calf, £3 to £4; empty heifers, £2 14s Gd; bulls, £3 15s to £5 ss. Messrs Dalget.y and Co., Ltd., held their fortnightly sale at Pahiatua, yesterday, and report as follows:—We had a fair yarding of sheep aud a good yarding of young cattle. Very few buyers were operating, and bidding was consequently slow, some of the lines failing to reach vendors' prices. We quote: —Mixed hoggets, 11s 9d to 13s Id; ±'at and forward wethers, lGs 3d to l(ss 9d ; ewes with 100 per cent lambs, to 18s 2d ; empty cows and heifers, to £3; 15 to 20----months steers, £3 8s (>d io £2 12s (sd; 2 to steers, £4 ss; bulls, to £4 lis. Owing to next Tuesday being the King's Birthday no sale will be held next week.

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