STOCK MARKET

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 48, 13 February 1945, Page 7

STOCK MARKET

AUTUMN SHEEP FAIR

DALGETY & CO's SALE

Messrs Dalgety and Company Limited report having held their Autumn Sheep Fair on Saturday February 3. The offering was well up to advertised numbers, and included some particularly good lines of well grown and forward conditioned 4th wethers for which there was spirited competition throughout, top pricc for this class of sheep being realised for a line of 292 exceptionally well grown and good conditioned wethers on behalf of Mr J. Redpath of Wairata which realised 31s Ikl. Other good lines of -l.th wethers sold at 28s 9d to 31s 3d. A particularly well grown and forward conditioned line of 2th wethers' offered on account of Mr A. G. Pile realised from 27s (id to 2!).s (id ? the latter price being paid for 100 of the "tops" of the offering. There was a strong representative attendance of buyers from the Waikato, Te Puke Rotorua and Whakatane districts and competition throughout was keen the total offering changing hands at prices very much in vendors' favour and considerably in advance of those which have ruled for a good number of years. The. offering of ewes> comprised a number of good lines which are. offered here annually and met with spirited competition, top price being paid for a line of 224 sound good constitutioned 4 and 5 year ewes on account of Mr A. EGeliert of the Wairata Valley which made 25s 6d. The offering of 2th ewes included some well grown ) early shown the best lines making up to 28s paid for a pen of 111 offered on account of Mr A. G. Pile. The yarding of lambs included some pens of very well grown and forward conditioned early shorn wether lambs. These met with good competition and changed hands at from 17s 9d to 20s fid. A few pens of ewe lambs, offered made from 18s to 19s medium mixed sex lambs •1 making up to IGs (>d j with smaller inferior sorts changing hands at from 10s to 14s 3d. There was also a good offering of Romney and Southdown rams the former making from 4 to 6% guineas for 1 shear sheep and the Southdown, the offering of which was limited and for which there was keen competition making up to 8 guineas, 7 guineas, being paid for 2 and 3 shear good quality sheep.