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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10664, 20 June 1912, Page 7

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JOHNSONVILLE STOCK SALE. (By Telegraph —Special to the Age.) JOHNSON VILLE, Last Night. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., .report on their Johnsonville sale as follows: —A good yarding of prime sheep and cattle came,forward. Bullocks were on a lino with last sale, but shdep were a shilling a head easier all round. Prime heavy bullocks, £9 to £lO ss; lighter, £9 to £9 _ss; light, £-8 12s 6d to £8 17s 6d; medium wethers, 17s; prime ewes, 15s Od to 15s 9d; prime ewes, 13s to 14s; extra prime lambs, 16s to 16s 3d; prime i lambs, 12s 2d to 12s 7d. CLEARING SALE. Messrs James Macintosh and Co. report as follows on the clearing sale held on account of Mrs J. Bailey, of Parkvale, on Tuesday, the 18th insfc.: —We offered a small dairy herd of 15 cows, which were offered i-0 a good jj attendance of buyers. The cows were in splendid condition, and sold readily under the being as . follows: —August calvers, £6 I 3« 6<l | to £lO 2s 6d; September calvers, £6 to £9; spring cart mare, £2l ss; spring cart, £l3; dog cart, £lO 15s; and a lot of sundries at full market rates. WAIPOUA STOCK SALE. Messrs James Macintosh and Co. report on their Waipoua sale as follows: —A fair yarding of sheep came forward, consisting mostly of lambs and forwiard ewes, which sold readily under the hammer at full market rates. In cattle only a small yarding came forward, but were all disposed of with the exception of one pen. 1 Quotations are as follow : —Fat lambs, 13s 4d; forward ewes, 10s to 10s 9d; store ewes, 8s 6d; ewes in lamb, lis; good shorn lambs, 10s 4d to lis 3d; cull rams, 7s 6d; fat cows, £5 12s; heifers in calf, £4 10s; dairy cows, £5 i 10s to £6 2s 6d.