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HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:— At the weekly s,tock sale in -the Frankton yards on Tuesday last the yarding was smaller than at previous sales, but prices lately ruling were in most cases maintained. Beef was firm ; also mutton, although the quality of the latter offered was plain. Breeding ewes met with good competition, but here also the quality was not good enough to rejal'se top values. Pigs were in much better demand, baebners and porkers advancing from 7s to 10s per head. Store pigs did not advance correspondingly. \Ve quote,: Beef : Heavy fat cows £7 'ss to £7, 16s ; fat cows £6 to £6 14si, lighter sorts £5 5s to £5 Ils, unfinished £4 5s to £4 12s; good framed store cows £2 10s to £2 15s, others £1 10s to £2. Sheep: Fat ewes 12s 6d to 15s 3d ; fat lambs 20s 4d to 21s, 5d ; forward lambs 17s; 2-tooth ewes 28s 6d; breeding ewes, mixed ages, rough condition, £l. Pigs': Heavy baconers £2 14s to £2 18s, light £2 6s to £2 10s; heavy porkers £2 4s to £2 9s, light 33s to 38s; slips 12s to 18s; best weaners 10s to 13s, 6d, others ssto'7s.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5237, 10 February 1928, Page 4
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205COMMERCIAL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5237, 10 February 1928, Page 4
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