LIVE STOCK SALES
Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having held a .successful salo of sheep, cattle, _ etc., on ' account of Jlr. D. Nicol. at Parkville. Eketaliuna, on Friday. A Rood attendance of buyers was present, and bidding was fairly animated throushout the sale. Woolly hoggets made 245. 5d.; cood shorn do., 17s. 4d. to 17b. tOd.; medium do., 13s. 9d.: mixed aged ewes in lamb, 293. 3d.; backward empty ewes, 16s. 6i1.; Lincoln rams, £3 3f1.; S.D. rams, 17s. 6d.; m.s. weaners, £1 17s. to £3 2s. £d.; uistceu-month steers. £4; boll, £7. ''A number of settlers at Jliramhi, near Thames, havo decided to co-operate to provide themselves with liine for agricultural purposes at cheap rates. In tho district thero aro Bfs acres of sea shell deposited to a depth of 10ft. It has been decidcd to purchase a crush in? 4 plant and an engine for haulage. It is expected that an ample supply of limo will ba secured, A deputation from the jiotorua Formers" Union waited upon tho Minister of Lands this week with reference to treeplanting on tho Ivaingaroa Plains. It was stated that_ tho land was . suitable for turnip growing, and that poorer land in the same vicinity was better suited for troe-panting. T|i& Ministpr promised to. 6ecure a report from the femiafc? Demartment on tho master.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 219, 5 June 1918, Page 8
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226LIVE STOCK SALES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 219, 5 June 1918, Page 8
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