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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1943, Page 3

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CARTERTON SALE. LATE RATES MAINTAINED. Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report as follows on their Carterton sale yesterday:—A good yarding of sheep, cattle and piggs was offered. Prices were well up to late rates and practically a total clearance was effected under the hammer. The following are some of the realisations: — Sheep: Prime fat wethers, 23s to 255; shorn 2-th. wethers, to 19s; medium b.f. lambs. 15s 9d to 16s: small b.f. lambs, 9s 2d, 10s 9d. 12s lOd to 13s 6d; medium woolly wr. lambs, to 12s 4d; small woolly wr. lambs, to 9s 6d; woolly ewe lambs, to 17s Id; cull b.f. lambs, 5s Id, 7s lOd, Bs. 8s lOd; small woolly ewe lambs, to Us 3d; store ewes, to 8s Cattle: Cows and calves, £6 10s, £7 ss. £7 17s, £8 to £8 ss; fat cows. £5, £5 17s Gd,- £6 6s, £6 10s to £6 12s 6d; forward cows, £3. £3 12s, £4 7s 6d, £4 10s to £4 16s; store cows, 30s to £2 15s: bulls, £3 17s 6d, £5, £6 7s 6d. £6 15s to £7 10s; forward Hereford cows, to £6 7s; P.A. cows and heifers, to £6 10s. Pigs: Baconers. £3 17s to £4; heavy porkers, £3, £3 2s. £3 3s to £3 14s; porkers, £2 155.-to £2 19s; light porkers. £2 7s to £2 11s; store pigs. £2 Is to £2 3s 6d: choppers, 37s 6d. £2 to £2 ss; slips, to 365; weaners, 20s, 21s, 245, 255, 26s to 26s 6d.