DEMAND FOR LAMBS
PRICES INCREASE AT PAHIATUA.
The Auctioneers Association report as follows on the Pahiatua sale: A yarding of over '4,000 sheep, mostly comprising lambs, was offered to a good attendance of outside districts and local buyers. Generally the main lines of lambs yarded were far superior in quality than the previous week’s offering and the market accordingly rose in comparison. Top lambs were in keen demand, condition and size being a credit to the breeders. Black-face lambs were again in short supply. Woolly wether lambs also comprised a small percentage of the yarding. Quotations: Top quality lambs (extra good), shorn, 17s 3d, 16s Bd, 16s 7d t 0.165; shorn lambs (good), 15s 7d, 15s, 14s 6d to 13s 9d; woolly wether lambs (good), 16s 7d, 16s to 15s 3d; b.f. lambs (good), 17s Id, 16s 4d to 15s 9d; shorn wether lambs (medium), 12s 7d, 12s 4d, 12s, Ils 6d to 10s; medium w.w. lambs, 13s 9d, 13s, 12s 6d to 11s 8d; small w. lambs, Bs, 7s 6d to 7s; cull ewe lambs, 10s, 9s 6d to 9s; fat wethers (2-ths), 20s 3d, 20s, 19s 6d. Horses: Hacks, £lO, £9 10s to £7. Pigs: Weaners, 14s 6d, 14s, 12s 6d to. Ils. '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 3
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205DEMAND FOR LAMBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 3
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