Bobby Calf Pools

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 3

Bobby Calf Pools

CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY’S PAY-OUT The New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association announce that for the season just closed forty-one pools were administered co-operatively by the company and on behalf of these pools a final cash distribution of oyer £23,000 has been completed. Altogether the company’s total collections to date amount to over a quarter of a million calves, of which figure j just under 395,000 were handled on bejhalf of pools, which represents an inIcrease on last year’s operations of over ! 07,000. The average live weight of calves collected from pools was approximately Gllbs., this being considerably lower than that experienced last year. Realisations, however, have shown a | substantial increase on those procured jlast season, the net average total payments at gate for the season in pools ■in the Manawatu, Eangitikci, Taranaki land Hawke’s Bay districts being as , follows. These payments vary according to weight of calf handled and the rate of cartage and cost of railage to port works.

Ter head. Apiti-Rangiwaliia 7/8.9d Ashhurst-Poliangina’ 8/0.5d Bulls 8/3.5d Bunnythorpc-Whakarongo .. 8/7.2d Colyton-Te Arakura 8/3.3d Fitzherbert-Linton-Aokautere 8/7d Halcombc-Makino S/8.9d Kairanga 8/5.1d Kimbolton-Kiwitea .. .. .. 8/5.9d Levin-Kuku 7/ll.ld Oroua Downs-Eangiotu .. .. S/7.8d Raetihi 6/7.3d Rata-Taihape 7/7.5d Eongotea 8/4.Sd Shannon 7/11.3 d Woodvillc 7/5.4d Mokoia-Wakamara S/7.3d Tutira S/1.3d