CURRENT TOPICS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20171, 25 February 1931, Page 8

CURRENT TOPICS.

NOETHEBN EWE PEICES. , Ip yiew of theTbpening at Amberley on Monday of the North Canterbury ewe fairs. priees wiling at northern sales are interesting. At .Feildiijg, one,, of the principal sales, "where 28,000 ewes were, peunetl,->!.a pan of-20 twO'tooth Komneys sold at the big figure for this season of.,§2s, but this price was. well ahead of .the standard ruling for good, average pbeep. : A few of the bigger lines sold at, for., good two-tooths, 18s 6d, 13s Pd, 13s lid, 14s 3d, 14s 4d, 15s 64, 15s 9d, l<3s, 16s 3d, 10s 9d, 17s 6d, 18s 3d,, 38s 7d; small two-tooth ewes 8s 9d; Sb, 9s Od, 10s 7d; small ' ewes, 10s■ ■ 7d, 12s 9d; good four-tootli owes, 17s lid;-six-tootli ewes, 15s: Id; good four-year ewes, 9s 6d, 9s 9d, 10s," 10s 2d; four and five-year

8r 'it' \iiVi'** '* eyrcfc-Ss'Sd," 04 4flj 7s, 7s 6d, Saj.fiver year .ewfeV Gs 6d, 6s- Od, 6s Sd, 7s. * AtPahiatira Pair, where 14,000 were penned, best -foqr-year ewes sold at 10s Q&i and, two-tooths at 14s. At the «.!' W#ipwknra» wJe good fire-year ewes ,two-tooths ISJs lid,, and * 'Bp -Id. \ t C & «J-Qtie'(,oif' the benefits o£ big/ dairy /; '•JUtfl 5 taie' \ is that in '-tinea o£ I "ftuwq&i «s*eaa, auch as the present, tWy act as an intermediary Lotwcen I«d,tlt6 Bioxtgtigea. ci *tnsome istrlcts is entirely tietfeft 4oou(ited fassured jrhaps'ifc jnay'-be a long ■ sll, tie' -liquidated/ , Ttork >bas- als in this respect in tho 'At' if Meeting in- oisif.4 flay-*- to discuss • the rat of adjusting "fawn i'V.aecMfary. l Waln6d dona is connexion with gisS,S£' po^iow\pMhi^Jyiti|ly peaker, said /that* this' i ojjly fstaviig?' ofiQtjio veaiitfnt&Uibe e gutting further -into secretary agreed' that iraa ware ict wiped yut, bpcame mortgaged to rs. In one case,- liowof 'fhe'lnnd had agrcod ifi-cn .rimuci' *ui' *1 10s por acre P K%e decided Pt the .as -thea measure- implies, j§|Sto^ A but the 1 f [££& hard for many years 1 FPSk aCfaf?" position 'should be ' r ' fts : , II W-~ tol foi " a "y» aT 1 b 4># o£ a bad one., svery |]||M^)'W dt 1 [ot to-day, Yjbo started ' cai iook 1 tiack over many la y«rd 'of-'toil 'and self-denial, but: be te-iii' ; flplte of «th© better o'ppOTebanjm --But type 'of farmer >' it" on the kEkmS«,i - those who are on itj" apd' I };bave gone past, it, they, at least, have a e Y® n * hc y' I™™ L f «- r ®:7 <toT I'J 'oStiwo,, -Celrtftifily;t}»U,M »*»•( a MM- i 8 , now ' >« an/ fio% pLTm t andi the>inpTt- ( 'a'awesaity velli have, that. *««*.'- It».w no to n "imr," ,ov?u .it: satisfactory.