Pigs, Popery and Produce

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 206, 29 August 1942, Page 6

Pigs, Popery and Produce

The Dominion Auctioneering Company report receiving a capacity yarding of pigs at their weekly sale on Thursday. A slight increase in pi-ice was noted for all lines. Poultry was in keen demand, a special entry of yearling hens realising from 6s 6d to 8s each. Fruit and produce were in the usual supply. Pigs: Weaners, 25s to 37s each; heavy stores, £2 12s to £3 Is; medium stores, 39s to £2 Is each; porkers, £2 17s 6d to £3 3s each; slips, 265, 295, 35s to £2 4s each; sows, to £2 12s each. Poultry: Best laying hens, 6s 6d to Ss; table hens, os to 6s 3d each; medium hens, 4s to 5s each; heavy cockerels, 6s to 7s each; others, 3s to 4s 6d each; roosters, 4s to 7s each; ducks, 4s 9d to 5s 6d each; drakes, heavy, 6s to 7s 6d each; medium, 4s to 5s 6d each. Produce: Spring cabbage, os to 9s 6d per sack; savoy cabbage, to 9s Gd per bag; best cauliflowers, 12s to 14s 9d per bag; seconds, 6s to 9s 6d per bag. lettuce, 9s to 16s per case; leeks, to 1: 7d per bundle; parsnips, 6s to 7s pei bag; carrots, 3s Gd to 4s 6d per bag; swedes, 2s 6d to 5s per bag; spinach, 16s to 17s per case; celery, 13s 6d to 15s per dozen bunches; silver beet, to Os per bundle; radishes, 2s 3d to 2s 6d per bunch; spring onions, to 2s 4d pci bunch; onions, £2 per bog. Army Education. 11 That this meeting deplores the fact that to-day no provision is made for a continuance of education for tin general classes of youths aged 18 am upward in the Armed Forces of flu Dominion, and decides to make repvc sontations to the Prime Minister fo a proper education scheme, which it i. the plain duty of the State to provide, ’' was a motion carried at a meeting of men and women prominent in commercial, educational and professional life in Wellington.