LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 46, 24 February 1939, Page 11

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

PAHIATUA EWE FAIR The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., offered more than 5000 ewes and a few pens of lambs to a small attendance of the public at the second Pahiatua ewe fair on Tuesday. Few outside buyers were present, and prices generally were easier than at the first fair. For four-year ewes, Messrs’ Smart’s Estate's entry topped the sale at 20s. Of the two-tooth ewes, a particularly outstanding line offered in conjunction with Abraham and Williams, on account of Messrs. Dougherty Bros., sold at 26s 3d, topping the sales by auction. An attractive pen of wellbred and grown woolly ewe lambs, offered in conjunction with Abraham and Williams, on account of C. C. Tolley, went to a Masterton buyer, after keen competition, at 20s 7d. Vendors met the drop in prices very well. Prices are:—Two-tooth ewes, account Dougherty Bros., 26s 3d; account Smart’s Estate, 21s 6d; account E. Burr, 24s 7d; account G. Hull. 19s Id; and account other vendors, 21s to 18s 9d. Cull pens, 17s 6d to 16s. Older ewes: Account Smart's Estate, 20s; account Le Leivre Estate, 19s 4d; account F. Kent, four and five-year, 14s 2d; account Geo. Hull, four and six-tooth ewes, 19s Id; account A. J. Patchett, five-year ewes, 14s; account Wm. Hull, 14s; account M. and M. Buckley, 13s 9d; account W. Mitchell, m.a. ewes, 14s; account J. V. Crawford, 14s; account W. A. Cook, twotooth wethers, 16s; account J. R. Gardiner, m.a. ewes, 18s 6d; account G. Styles, five-year ewes, Ils Id; account J. R. Hay, 7s 3d; account R. K. Bamford, 13s 6d; account Ben Hay, 12s 6d; account C. C. Tolley, s.m. eewes, 7s 9d: account A. R. Wylie, two-tooth ewes, 23s 6d; account Ben Hay, 18s 6d; account F. Ridder, 245; account F. Kent, four and five-year ewes, 14s 2d; account L. Timmins, f.m. ewes, 8s; and account other vendors, six-tooth ewes, 19s to 15s 4d; five-year ewes, 12s to 10s 3d; twotooth ewes, 18s 6d to 17s 6d; f. and f. two-tooth account W. H. Bryant, 16s lOd; account MurphyBros., w.w. lambs, medium, 10s; account Geo. Hull, four and six-tooth wethers, 14s lOd; account same vendor, shorn wether lambs, 8s 8d to 6s 6d; account Geo. Bryant, shorn wether lambs, 9s Id; account G. Hull, shorn ewe lambs, ,12s; shorn b.f. lambs, 9s 3d; and account other vendors, woolly wether lambs, 6s 9d; and b.f. lambs. 10s 6d.