MATAWHERO STOCK SALE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2154, 9 August 1907, Page 2

MATAWHERO STOCK SALE.

There is a slackening off in tlie quantity of stock coming forward, owing to the bad weather and the difficulties of travelling, but still the Matawhero sales continue fairly sue-< cessful. At yesterday’s sal© a moderate attendance was recorded. Yearlings were not large hut fair business was recorded. 'Messrs. Common, Shelton and Co. and Dalgety and Co., who submitted their lots first, report tlie following sales:— 2l hoggets 12s Id. 26 ewes in lamb passed in, 28 do. 9s. 32 wethers 16s, 1 cow £6 12s 6d, 1 heifer £6, 1 steer £7 12s 6d, pen of •3 cows £5 17s 6d each, 10 cows passed in, 2 cows and 1 heifer passed in. 2 butchers’ cows £4 each, 1 milking cow £3, 1 young bull £T 7s 6d, 8 heifers and 1 cow passed in. Mr. F. Carron’s dairy cows sold at from £5 •3s to £lO each.

Afessrs. AVilliams and Kettle and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. had a medium catalogue. Sales were effected as follows: —ls ewes and 16 lambs, passed in; "9 fat and forward ewes, passed in ; ? e iS ost . er cross hoggets from Alur:>.iy s To Arai, 13s 3d. A. J. Cameron ; 14 hoggets /s Id, Zinker; 16 ewes in lamb 16s, AA’. Judd; 38 owes 7s, Zinker; 22 fat ewes 16s 6d, Pilcher- 6 hoggets 12s, A. J. Cameron ; 34 good healthy hoggets 8s 6d, R. H. Shanks; 28 tat ewes 16s 6d, Gordon: 30 fat ewes, passed m ; 34 ewes in lamb 6s, Zinker; 66 ewes in lamb 12s 6d Hugh; 44 ewes in lamb 16s 3d, AtcGanston; 2 wethers los 7d, AV. Allen • •99 forward ewes, passed in ; 253 hoggets 10s 4d, J. AValker; 134 hoggets 13s, Humphreys; 69 ewes in lamb passed in; 40 fat ewes 16s Id, E. T. Harries; 43 fat ewes, . passed in Pigs: 1 Berkshire boar 31s, Alley 3 porkers 13s, Alley ; .2 porkers 14s Judd; 2 pigs 16s 6d. Cattle: Air.’ 1 eddies dairy herd. Cows sold at from £2 10s to £5 15s. 1 bull £4 ss. Other sales were: 1 heifer £4 10s. Alley; 8 calves £1 Is, Te Rawini; 1 heifer £2 ss, Boyd: 1 heifer £5, E. Harries; 1 heifer £3 12s 6d. Alley; 1 heifer £2 15s, Lumsden: 4 heifers £3 15s, C. Bartlett; 7 beef cows £4 7s 6d, Gordon; 7 do. £4, Gordon; 8 beef steers £5 12s, Stevens; 1 cow £5 15s, Alley; 1 beef cow £5, Gordon ; 22 calves 10s, Jefferson; 1 calf 10s, Jefferson; 2 Jersey heifers £2 2s 6d, C. Bartlett.