HAWKES BAY A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.
BAA! lIAjIBi AIT lIAOTINGS. [Press Association.] HASTINGS, Jan. 29. The annual ram fair under the auspices of the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society was concluded at Hastings to-day. Every entry of (English Leicester flock rams was sold, at prices ranging from 1-] to 3 guineas. Soutkdowns were eagerly competed for at prices ranging from sto 10 guineas. Romneys, which were yarded in large numbers, had only a fair sale. Stud rams Avere not largely entered, and the highest figure realised was 33 guineas 'for ,a shearling Romney, bred and sold, by Mr. E. J. Riddlcford, of (Lower Hutt, and bought iby Mr. G. (Beamish, of Whaniawhana. Prices offered did not agree Avitli vendors’ values, and many of the stud rams-were passed m tinder'the hammer.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2413, 30 January 1909, Page 5
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