AUCKLAND’S HONEY CROP

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 913, 5 March 1930, Page 10

AUCKLAND’S HONEY CROP

POOR YIELD EXPECTED With the advance of the season, it is becoming more and more apparent that the honey crop for the Auckland Province will not be one-half that of :i normal season. The excessively wet ueather of December and January, the chief gathering periods of the bees’ year, while inducing fairly good growth, prevented the bees from gathering the nectar.

CAMBRIDGE STOCK SALE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Hamilton, reports: At the Cambridge sale yesterday w© submitted a good yarding of sheep and cattle, and a medium entry of pigs. There a good demand for all classes, with the exception of 3 8-months to 25-year-old steers, which ■were dull of sale. We quote—Fat cows and heifers made £7 16s to £9 10s; killable cows. £6 12s to £7 ss; fleshy boner cows, £4 17s to £5 14s; small - framed cows, £ 3 IGs to £4 12s; dairy cows, £ G 10s to £ $ 10s; bulls, £4 to £G 10s: four-year-old ewes. £1 Gs Gd: sound-mouth ewes. 17s 2d: aged ewes, 10s to 13s sd: prime fat lambs, £1 7s Gel to £1 10s Gd; light fat lambs, 16s Gd: shorn* store lambs, 12s lid: unfinished porkers. £2 6s 6d to £2 13s: store porkers, £1 12s to £1 17s 6d; slips, £1 6s to £ 1 9s 6d; good weaners. 17s to £1 Is; smaller weaners, 12s to 15s. A. AND T. BURT, LTD.

NEW DIRECTOR APPOINTED Mr. William Moriey, late managing director of Mason, Struthers and Company, Ltd., Christchurch, and formerly manager of Briscoe and Company. Ltd., Wellington, has joined the board of directors of A. and T. Burt, Ltd., Dunedin.