MOUNT POSSESSION.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16147, 27 February 1918, Page 8

MOUNT POSSESSION.

9 3 | I CLEAKING SALE OF SHEEP. ) I ~ [ At the Mount Possession clearing sale, conducted on Monday by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Com- ' pany, Ltd., thero was a very largo attendance of buyers from all parts of Canterbury, and never have sheep from the high * country up the Ajshburton Gorge brought anything approaching such high prices. Competition was keen throughout, and a complete clearance effected at the following prices:—

1 ». d. I 1358 two-tooth halfbred wo them .. 27 o r 1168 three-quarterbred wether lambs 21 6 j 1457 three-quftrterbred ewe lamos 27 9 853 halfbred wether lambs .. .. 17 3 > 710 halfbred ewe lambs .. .27 10 3 700 mixed eex three-quarterbred cull 3 lambs .. . • • • .. 21 1 1493 two-tooth halfbred ewes .. 35 7 202G four-tooth ha.ibred owes .. 42 6 1976 six-tooth halfbred ewes .. .. 40 G 2338 full-mouth ewes .. .. 26 4 5 723 four-year-old halfbred ewes .. 34 9 ( 1486 jivo-year-old halfbred ewes .. 2D 3 I 487 failing-mouth ewea .. .. 26 0 l £06 cull four, six, and eight-tooth ewea 35 l , 32 cull three-quarterbred ewes .. 39 G 103 cuil halfbred lambs .. .. 21 2 ' 16 cull black lambs .. .. 19 3 L