SCRUB HORSES WANTED
BRISK TRADE IN KING COUNTRY (From Our Own Correspondent) TAUMARUNUI. Saturday. For a week or two past several Maori buyers have been busy in the Taumarunui district buying up Maori ’ scrubs;’ the popular name for native horses. Very large numbers of the animals have changed hands at prices ranging from 10s to 15s, but it is reported that in some eases "ilori,” with a shrewder head than his fellows, and with visions of great wealth, lias held back for a rise in the market for scrub horseflesh. and is now demanding the exorbitant price of 30s a head. The average pakeha regards 10s as a reallv good price that should be accepted without hesitation-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 395, 2 July 1928, Page 12
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117SCRUB HORSES WANTED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 395, 2 July 1928, Page 12
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