Selling Stock by Weight.
A spasmodic attempt was made a few years ago to get the Auckland and Wai* kato stock salesmen to sell fat stock by weight ; and, if we remember rightly, says an exchange, a weighbridge was actually procured by one of tho Auck. land firms to inaugurate the system. For some reason or another it was not erected, and the agitation for the adoption of the system eventually fizzed oat. Thanks, no doubt, to the persistent efforts of Mr M'Jaunett, this method of selling stock is rapidly extending throughout Great Britain. At the Stir* liug market on the 21st March, the sales* men announced that cattle were to be sold per cwt. and afterwards weighed for settlement/ For the first pen of bullocks the bids came promptly, and within a few seconds they were knocked down at SOsSdpoicwt. The anctioneers were; highly pleased with the short tune the bidding! occupied, and the arrange* ments for weighing arc described as go complete that a large liuniber of cattle are weighed with great expedition and accuracy.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 282, 4 June 1896, Page 2
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