COMMERCIAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20917, 17 October 1942, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

WAIROA STOCK SALE A small yarding of sheep and cattle was offered at tho North Clyde stock sale, Wairoti, on Thursday. There was a strong demand for hoggets at full late rates,, and although bidding was slow for ewes with lambs one exceptional pen with very forward lambs made ISs 3d. all counted. Cattle were dull of sale. Auctioneers report as follows: — Hawke’s Bay Farmers.— Dairy cows, to £9 ; fat heifers. £5 to £6 7s 6d; yearling Jersey steers, ,£2 Is; ewes with good lambs (all counted), 18s 3d; woolly fat ewes, 19s; wether hoggets, £1 Is (id. Williams and Kettle, Limited.— Aged ewes with Southdown lambs at foot. 13s 6d, all counted; ewe hoggets, medium, 24s to 24s 3d- cull do., 17s 3d; wether hoggets, good medium, 22s 6d; culls do., 9s Gd; mixed age wethers, light condition,-22s Gd; cull do.. 17s 7d; Southdown cross hoggets, ISs Gd; store ewes, 12s Gd; fat ewes, ISs. ’ ' Dalgety and Co., Limited.—Thirty-three w.w. hoggets, 25s Gd; 42 do., 21s 3d; svewc5 v ewc lioggets, 21s; 4 w.w. hoggets, 9s Id. OPOSSUM SKIN . SALE Heavy passings occurred at the sale of epossum skins in Dunedin yesterday,- and Dalgety and Company report that the values generally were 20 to 30 per cent below those of the previous sale in November last year. Blacks were difficult to sell, while threequarter grown, smalls, thirds and inferior were practically unsaleable. The offering totalled 70,000 skins.