SELLING CATTLE BY WEIGHT.
TO TKK EDITOR. Sir, — In Mr Buckland's letter to the Tamahere Farmers' Club re selling cattle by weight, he says the charge for selling will be raised from 3% to 4% or, say, 25%. Put it in another form, Mr Buckland sells, say, £1,200 worth of cattle per week —alow estimate, 1 think, — 1% on which is £624 a-year for a few hundred, pouuds for machine and yards. That is the way that the auctioneers have grand villas and grounds and keep racehoises, &c , &c, while the poor farmer 1 , on whom he lives, eats the bread of carefulness in' bis bumble home and thinks himself fortunate if he is not compelled to leave, it, after years of labour, to earn his 1 living some other way, I trust the club will, be manful PBOugh to say to, Mr Buckland and Mr Punter we intend to have .our cattle sold by weight, and we will not, pay more than 3% commission.; Perhaps Capt. Runciraan could tell what the, charges are in Amerioa.-r-I'ani, &c, ! " , -, - C<^WS,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1864, 17 June 1884, Page 2
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178SELLING CATTLE BY WEIGHT. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1864, 17 June 1884, Page 2
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