MASTERTON SALE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1941, Page 6

MASTERTON SALE

COMPETITION REPORTED KEEN. The Associated Auctioneers report on the weekly Masterton sale as follows: —A good yarding of fat sheep and ■cattle was offered to a large bench of buyers. Competition was keen throughout. In the sheep section there were two clearing sales of ewes. In the cattle section good lines of all ages came forward. Tiie following list of prices will indicate values:— Cattle:—Fats: Bullocks. £9 15s; heifers, £6. £6 17s 6d, £7 to £8 10s: cows, from £5 15s to £7 3s: vealers. £2 5s to £3; Jersey cows. £5 15s to £6 10s. Stores: 31,-yr. steers, a c Geo. Shaw. 36 P.A. steers. £9 is: other small lots from £7 14s to £9 16s. Two and a-half year steers: 2,',-yr. P.A. steers. £6 5s to £7 ss; 2A-yr. coloured steers. £4 10s to 1 £6: 18-mos. steers, a c G. and E. Liverton, £6: others, £4 15s, £5. £5 12s. Wcancr steers, a c D. Stilborn. an exceptional line of 26 P.A. steers, £5. Hereford steers from same line, £4; others from £3 15s to £4 3s. Heifers: 21-yr. P.A. heifers. £4 10s to £■! IPs. Cows; Empty P.A. cows. £3 10s. £4 12s; enwty Hereford cows. £4 9s. Cows and calves. £4. £4 2s 6d. Light cows, £2. £2 15s. Sheep:—Fats: Wethers, 21s. 23s 4d: lambs, 19s sd, 235: hoggets, 18s, 19s: ewes. Ils. 12s. Stores: Ac Scott Bros.. 2 and 4-th. ewes. r.w. S.D. ram. 25s sd; 4-th. ewes. do.. 26s Id: 6-th. ewes, do.. 25s lOd: 6-th. ewes. cio.. 255. A/c Trass Bros.. 2-th. ewes.r.w. Romney ram. 22s 9d; 4 and 5-yr. ewes. r.w. S.D. ram. 18s to 18s 3d: w ewe hoggets. 21s 2d. A z c A. P. Southey and Son. P.B. Romney ewe hoggets. 24s 4d. A/c York Bros.. 2 and 4-th. wethers. 13s lOd to 19s Id: w. ewe hoggets. IGs Id. A/c W. F. McLaren. 4 and 5-yr. ewes, r.w. S.D. ram. 20s: others, w.w. lambs. 13s Id to 18s 10d; owe lambs. 21s 6d: ■ ■ 11, 12s 3c! to 16.: 3d: b.f. lambs. 14:, .:■/.: store ewes, 5s 6d to Gs 6d. Pigs: Good woaners, 10s.