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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 143, 8 February 1939, Page 1

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FORTNIGHTLY PIG SALE The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report as follows: — Wo had ft heavy yarding of pigs m, Jill classes and report a good .sale, throughout. Ifaeoners and heavy poffters sold well. Stores, slips and wonders show an easing tendency. Prices realised wore:— -gHeavy baconers, £3 6s to 63 10s; JijfUter haconers, 62 19s to £3 os; heavy • porkers, £2 11s to £2 16s; light pork, £2 3s to £2 9s; good store pigs, £2 to £2 7s; .smaller stores, 32s to 38s; good slips, 15s to 31s; „weani.'i's, 8s to 13s. No choppers were vnrdoifc

WHAKATANE ANNUAL LAMB AND WETHER FAIR .Messrs. Dalgety and 00. Ltd. rejiort having lield their annual. lamh jiihl sheep lair on Friday the 3rd. February and Saturday the Ith. February. At the lamb' fair the fully advertised entry camci forward and there was ji big percentage of good iambs submitted. There was a large and representative attendance of buyers from .all parts of the Bay of Plenty, no. outside representation being evident. Competition was exceedingly keen for all classes of lambs at an advance on recent rates, especially on the cull section of the entry. In the majority of cases realisations exceeded vendors’ expectations and practically ax total clearance was effected under the hammer a feature, of the yarding being i lie number ol small purchases of from 10 to 50 lambs made by local

■dairy farmers. The following day a. very heavy yarding of eves ' and wethers came forward exceeding the advertised numbers, the - entry including 2,300 .sheep from East Const on consignment basis. There was. a. large and representative attendance, buyers ■coining front) as lar as thei Waikato distriets. ,t«ood ewes of all ages met with very keen eompetition tit tin adVitnee on late rales whilst interior / classes of ewes sold under steady < / v competition at late rates. Wethers were \arded in considerable numbers, being' chiefly Fast ("cast consignment sheep which met with keen competition iit fully rates realised tit other fixtures, with practically a total ■clearance being efleetcdi under the

Immmer. Wlmkatnno Lamb Fail', 3rd. I'ebrunry.— Principal sales: Aeeount 11. X. .1. Tipping, 117 ewelambs 10s 4d ; aci (Hint Hutchinson Bros. Junior, 53 nether lambs 10's Od, 72 sit 8s 2d; account J. Leather. 71 wether lambs at 8s 8s 1; aeeount Kirks Estate. 78 ewe Jambs 13s Id; aeeount Tipping Bros. SO ewe lambs lOs 8d ; account Clift AJj<Culloch, 100 nether lambs 19s Gd; aeeount Kirks * Estate, 115 wether lambs 8s Gd ; aeeount 0. Tipping, 172 wether lambs 8s (id; account 'Lipping Bros. 110 wether lambs 8s 2d; account J. Li. Spence, I 19 wether lambs 8s 9d. Wlmkatano Sheep Fair, February 4. —Principal sales: Account LI. Walworth, East Coast, 15 21 h| ewes 21s; account Branson, East Coast, 79 4 and 5-year ewes 19s (id; account LI. X. J. Tipping, 154 G-yenr ewes .11s; account M. I. K. Bobcrts, 87 5 and ti-yr. ewes 12s; aeeount Kirks Ea;tate 88 5-year ewes 13s; account Williams Bros, and' Tiekner. 202 2-th-wetliers 13 s. Last (Oast. ('aiisigunient Sheep; Account Butlan.l 119 2-lb. Wvethor^' 12s 2d; account H, Kemp, ■ 2-th. wethers 13s Id; . .fWcoi'lnt t, 134 2-tli. wethers 32s lid p;account) Sliariand. 189 2-tli. vvethei;s:.,J:?fe 2d; account Evans, 78 2-th.,7iViOthers" 12s Id; account Halliavell, .wet licr.s 12s (id; account • Fairlie j 'T7l|j 2-tIL wethers 13s 2d; account Fraser, 107 2-tli. wethers 12s '9d; C-iffrk, 170 2th. wethers 13s ; ; ';hcpnpit t ' A'-. .McCulloch. 81 2-t h. wethorb 13h'Bd .'and 04 at 12s (id; ac<:puni|:CWi> I'inping 82 fat wethers IGp 6d Facecgint H. X. J. Tipping, 152 wctlievsi 13s . (kl.; v account 'l ipping