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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1942, Page 5

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MASTERTON SALE STORE WETHERS BRING LATE RATES. DEMAND FOR LAMBS. The Masterton Associated Auctioneers held their weekly sale at Masterton yesterday there being a small attendance of buyers. The fat sheep section showed a slight improvement, while the quality of the store sheep was generally of an average standard. Store wethers maintained values well up to, if not above, lates rates. With a small exception, the ewes offered were not up to previous standards and sold accordingly. Good shorn wether lambs sold well, as did top woolly wether lambs, whilst all medium classes of sheep were easier. The quality of the ewe lambs varied, and competition in most cases was not spirited. The following prices ruled at auction: — Fats: B.F. lambs, 245, 23s 4d, 21s Id; wethers, 235, 20s 4d, 20s; ewes, 10s, 10s 6d. Stores: 2-th Wethers, 22s 6d, 20s 4d, 19s, 16s; 2-th. ewes, 25s 6d, 21s 6d, 19s 8d; small, 12s 2d to 16s; 4-th., 6-th. and 4-yr. ewes, 14s; 5-yr. ewes, 13s 2d, 10s 3d, 9s; m.a. ewes, 12s, 12s Id to 13s; b.f. lambs, 17s 6’d, 16s 6d, 14s; shorn wether lambs, 18s, 16s 7d, 16s 2d, 14s 3d, 13s 3d; small, 8s 7d; woolly ewe lambs, 19s 9d, 14s 7d, 14s, 13s 2d; small, 10s 4d; m.s. lambs, small, 6s Id, 6s 6d; woolly wether lambs, 16s 6d, 13s 3d; small, 8s 7d, 9s Id. Rams: Southdown rams, ign. to 3 gns.; Romney rams, jgn. to 2gns.