FAT STOCK SALES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10282, 10 July 1911, Page 5

FAT STOCK SALES

JV QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED. -' At fa© meeting of the Masterton -A. : aJdid>P. Association on .Saturday last, Mr JVC. McKillop asked how ;the. fat stock sales were progress.ing. He would like to know if they were going to be continued, or to drop out. The Chairman: Perhaps Mr Cooper can give us some information on the :subject. IMx O. C. Cooper pointed out that -tihe first sales/ had been held on a -falling beef market. The majority -of the sheep" sent in had not been fat. .He thought that if the sales were -continued, /and the right class of ; stock wa« ©emit in, they would eventually be successful. A complaint Ifiid Jbeem made that the vendors had placed too high reserves on the first sheep sent am. He l recognised that ■breeders wanted better prices in the yards than they would get at their __."/, 'farms. - Mf MoKillop (Stated that they saw reports of tike fat stock sales in the : South. He thought these should be ' forthcoming in >Ma.sterton. In answer to a question, the Pre- /-. sident stated that the first sales 'had v«* "'been held under the auspices of the Association/. Mr Cboper expressed the opinion that with fat stock and lower reserves outside butchers would operate. The discussion then dropped.