OPOTIKI PIG SALE
BACONERS TO £4 Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report having held their fortnight Iv. pig sale, when a full yarding of aU classes of pigs came forward. Then? was an average attendance of buyers together with the usual'* bench? of export and bacon curers operating. Competition was keen for all classes of baeoners, Avhich sold, at slightly lower values than previous: fixture, this no doubt due to ther Opotiki Bacon Company restricting: their purchases, whilst porkers also* sold ifnder keen competition at last sale's rates. All otlie.r plasses of pigs showed an easing" Ifendency. The best sale was a line of sevenbaeoners 011 account of Miss Leod, Woodlands, realising £4. Realisations:— Heavy baeoners £3 17s Gd to medium prime baeoners £3 12s to £5 17s (kl; light £3 to £3 10s; heavyporkers £2 10s to £2 15s; mediums porkers £2 5s to £2 7s 6d; light 35s to £2; choppers £3 to £3 lis; light £2 :o £2 10s; stores £2 to £2 7s 6d; slips. 25s to 30s; medium sorts 15s to 20 s;wcaners 8s to 12s.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 148, 17 April 1940, Page 8
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181OPOTIKI PIG SALE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 148, 17 April 1940, Page 8
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