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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 February 1913, Page 5

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PAHIATUA STOCK SALE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report as follows: We offered a good yarding of both sheep, and cattle, on the 11th inst. There was an improved tone in.the sheep market, the » demand heing keener and prices better than late rates. Cattle sold at recent prices. Quotations : Four tooth wethers 15s (id, sound mouth ewes 8a 8d to 12s Id, shorn lambs 5s to Bs, Shropshire- rams 21s, 18-month .steers £3 ( Js 6d to £3 12s, empty cows £3 Is to £3 12s 6d, dairy heifers £2 133 6d to £3 15s mixed weaners 25s to 355, bulls.£2'los to £3 17s 6d. MASTERTON STOCK SALE. The New Zealand Loan Jiid Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Reduced, report: We held our usual weekly «ale at Sol way on Wednesday,, when wo offered a good yarding of: sheep and a,' fair one of cattle to a, fair attendance of buyers. Rape lambs made from 8s to 10s, cull lambs 4s 3d to 6s. ewes 8s to 10s, cull ewes 4s Id to 5s s)d, fat cows £&. 10s, empty heifers £3 Is, heifers in calf £4 10s. WATPOUA SALE. .Messrs James Macintosh and Co, report having held their usual weekly sale in their Waipoua (Masterton)' was dull,') ut we managed to effect ed an entry of 3000 sheep and fifty, cattle. Bidding under the hammer was dull, but they managed to effedi) a sale of about 2000 sheep and 30 head of cattle at the following prices r Woollv lambs Ss ftl to 10s 3d, shorn do. 6s to o.s, ILF. do. 6s 4d ro 9s Sd, F.M. ewes (is 3d to 10s 3d, call do. 3s lOd to 4s, mixed 2-tooths 10s, dairy heifers £3 18s, yearling steers £3, springing heifers £5 6s, fat cows £5 7 S 6d.

JOHXSOXYILLE STOCK SALE. (By Telegraph.—Tress Association.) JOHNSOXYILLE, Last Night. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale as follows: A good yarding of sheep and cattle came forward and -old at late rates. Prime bullocks £lO 7 (kl to £lO 10s, lighter do. £9 IJS.S. light do. £8 J2s Cd to £8 17s Gd, vealers 225, prime wethers 18s to 18s i><], light do. 10s fkl to 1.75, prime heavy ewes 18s. good do. 15s 6d to 16s, 'light plain do. Ms Get to 14s M, prime lambs 14s Cxi to 14s 10d. medium do. lis 6d to 12s.