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FAT'STOCK SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Ltd., report: At Westfield yard i on Wednesday fat stock came forward in more than average numbera, and the yarding was ofeicellent quality. Prices were not quite as high as th n previous? week, best oxen selling to 31s, others 29s to 30p, cows atid heifers 26s to 29s perl 001b?. Steers sold at from £8 10s to £l4 12s 6d, cows and heifers £4 10s to £9 10s. Calves came forward in larger numbers than usual, and sold a shade easier. No heavy weights yarded. Medium weights £2 10s to £3 ss, others 30s to 475, smaller 20s to 295, small and fresh dropped 3s tol7 3. Sheep were penned in scarcely average numbers and advanced in prices from 2s to 3s per head. Wethers in wool sold at from 23a 6d to 28s 9d, shorn wethers, best 20s to ?As 9d, others 15 3d to 19s 9d, best ewes 21s to 24s 3d, others 16s to 20s 3d, hoggets shorn 17s 6d to 19a d. Lambs yarded in full numbers, and sold at last week's oircea. Best quality Is 6d to 22s 6d, others lis to Is, store iambs 5s 9d to 10s. Pigs j —Baconera £3 to £3 14s, large pork | ers £2 5s tu £2 18s, porkers 30s to j 425, slips 25s to 2Ss 6d, weaners 16s j to 22s Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd report on their Johnsonville sale as follows:—Medium bullocks £lO 10s to £lO 15s, light £9 10s to £lO 2s 6d, prime woolly Methera 48s 9d, prime wolly ewes 263 7d, prime heavy shorn wethers 22s 6d, prime wethers 21s 4d to 21b lid, jnedium wethers 18s 6d to 19s 2d s prime ewes 17s lid, medium 16s lOd, prime lambs 15s to 15s 6d to 15s 9d, plain 13s to 13s 6d.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 621, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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312COMMERCIAL. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 621, 22 November 1913, Page 5
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