STOCK MARKET.
Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Masterton stock sale held on Wednesday, 26th inst.: —We had a good yarding of sheep and also of cattle, stock being in excess of advertised numbers. Business at auction was good with the excepion of breeding ewes, which was inclined to drag. The bulk of the yarding, however, changed hands at satisfactory prices. Cattle were in much better demand, a total clearance resulting Quotations Sheep: Fat wethers, 12s; ewes in lamb, lis to 14s for young sheep; woolly lambs, good, 9s 7d: shorn lambs, ,6s 6d to 7s lid; small lambs, 5s lOd. Cattle: Well bred forward bullocks, £5 17s; three-year-old steers, £4 13s 6d to £3; two arid a half year steers, £3 8s to £3 16s; eighteen month steers, £2 7s to £3: mother reared steers, £2 2s 6d fat; cows, £4; empty cows, £2 to £3, according to condition. Pigs: Porkers 31s, 355, £2 8s 6d.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3200, 28 May 1909, Page 7
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159STOCK MARKET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3200, 28 May 1909, Page 7
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