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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 74, 20 December 1919, Page 12

Messrs. Harcourt and Co. report that there, was a large attendance at their rooms yesterday afternoon, when several properties wero offered at auction. No. 150 Moxhani Avenue, Kilbirnie, was sold to Mr. Maplesden lor .£925, and No. 101 Tinakori Road was sold to Jlr. R. PFlanagan tor J1650. The other properties, two in Tinakori Itoad, one in liny Street, one in Hugh Street, and ft section at Island Day, and u section in Essex Street, were passed in, and are now for 6ale privately. Mr. B. B. Shaw, an American shecPbreeder and rancher from California, who lately visited the Canterbury show, and purchased thereat some high-class Corriedalo rams at prices ranging from ono to three hundred guineas, also visited Mr. T. 0. Haycock's stud farm at. Tawalia, wiiero he selected ten Corrie<lalo ewe hoggets at twenty-live guineas eacli for shipment with lus southern purchasers, which are to bo shipped per Moana. As evidence of the Wa'irarapa's ability to produce the best of Corricdalcs, says tho Martinborough "Star," Mr. Shnw selected Mr. Haycock's ewes in preference to any of the same closs from southern breeders. Mr. Shaw stales that there is an unlimited demand for these sheep in the United States, and lie is quite sure that the ilocks in New Zealand will in l'uluro only be able to supply a fraction of American requirements, so rapidly are tho New Zealand sheep gaining popu larity, and so vast aro tho American territories.