LEVIN STOCK SALES

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 February 1915, Page 3

LEVIN STOCK SALES

DALGETY AND L'O.'S REPORT.

Messrs Dalgety and Company Limited report having hold their usual weekly

sale at Levin on Friday, the 19th inst., when they offered to a good attendance of the public a satisfactory yarding of both sheep and cattle. In sheep there was a good enquiry tor breeding ewes and wethers, and lambs were a little easier. The same remarks also apply to fat sheep. In cattlo sonic very good lines of 3-year-old steers were yarded and each lot ottered was sold under the hammer at prices on a par with late rates. The principal sales effected were as under:— Sheep.—Low-conditioned four and 4 five-year ewes 12s to 13s Id; failingempty ewes 8s 4d to 10s 4d; 2-ttjptir~irethers (small) los (3d; medium W.F?"woolly lambs 9s (id; II.F. woolly lambs 9s; cull lambs 4s 3d to 5s (3d; fat ewes 17s 2d; fat wethers (light) 20s 4d. Cattlo.—2J and 3-year steer 6 £6 lis, £6 15s, £0 17s; 2-year steers £5 Is, £5 15s; fat cows £5 to £0 iOs; 18nionths steers (low condition) £3 to £3 4s; fat licifers £5; 2-year heifers (in calf £4 ss; bulls £4 6s to £6 7s. ABRAHAM AND*WILLIAMS LTD. Messrs Abraham and Williams Ltd. report:—At Levin on Friday the yardin gs offered were well up to the average, bidding for all classes, however, was inclined to drag, but in most eases the various lots changed hands and very little went out unsold. Quotations: — Sheep—Fat ewes 17s 6d, 18s sd, 18s 6d, to 20b ; fat woolly lambs, 16s Id ; a nice line of 207 4 and o-year breeding owes realised 18s Id; other lines of f.m. ewes made from 10s 6d to lis; 2-tooth ewes 17s; mixed ag<y| ewes 15s 4d; forward lambs 8s Id to 10s 7d ; store lambs 6s 4d to 7s sd; cull lambs 4s 9d to 6s. Cattle.—Fat cows £5 19s to £6 18s; forward cows £4 5s to £4 12s Gd; store cows 21s to £3 Is; "2-year steers £3 13s 6d, 3-year steers £5; 18-months Jersey heifers £3 18s Cd; 18-month dairy heifers £3 4b to £3 lis 6d ; springing heifers £5 to £6 6s; weaners heifers 25s to 295. Pigs.—Porkers 235, 255, 2Gs, to 355; stores 13s to 15s; weaners 7s, Bs, 8s 6d to 10s.

Mr Royd Garlick, director of physical culture to the Education Department, died on the West Coast train on Saturday afternoon. After an inspection of a teachers' camp at Greymoutli he was" returing from there, and on leaving the train at Otira, he walked over tho big hill, and on arriving at the Big Hill was in a profuse perspiration and I complained of pains in the chest. When on the train again Mr Garlick grew rapidly worse and died at 2.15 p.m. when the train was near Darfield. At tho inquest the medical ovidcnce sho.veff that death was due to cardiac hernia consequent on deceased's previous exertion.