STOCK SALES.
The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report as follows: - At Ngaruawahia on Wednesday last we held our Annual Sheep Fair The full advertised number came forward, and all available space had to be brought into requisition, all drafting yards and pens attached to cattle as well as sheep pens being occupied. The total yarding was 11,850 ewes, wethers and lambs, and 170 rams. People were there to do business, and with the exception of one pen of aged ewes anda few rams, all were disposed of. Wethers made from 12s 6d to 13s 9d for fats, and 10s to 12s for stores and forward sheep. Good woolly lambs 8s to 10s sd; smaller sorts 6s to 7s 6d; best shorn lambs 8s to 9s Id: smaller 5s to 6s 9d; 2 tooth ewes 15s to 17s: 4 and 6 tooth ewes up to 17s7d 2 tooth black faced 12s to 13s; fresh full mouth ewi-s being annual draft; from breeders Izs to He; aged ewes 8s to 10s. Rams: Leicester 3 to 3J gs.; Romneys 2 to -IJgs; Lincolns 2\ to -Igs.; Shropshires 1 to 2fgs.; aged rams 5s to 15s.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 135, 1 March 1909, Page 5
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193STOCK SALES. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 135, 1 March 1909, Page 5
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