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Newspaper
Bunbury Herald
Location
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1914
Page
3
A fair week in farming country with drought pressing sellers to lower values. Cattle yarding at Copleys Siding was smaller but prices recovered. sheep faced an over supply of mullion and prices fell. store pigs were hard to sell due to feed shortages. Horses: medium draught mares 22 to 226, medium geldings 14 10s, light aged 3 15s to 6s, yearlings 3 5s. 11 horses sold. no cows yarded.
Only 304 cattle arrived, Midland Line supplying most of the offering. Quality scarce with no heavy bullocks. prices rose versus last week. Handy weight bullocks to 17 pounds 17s 6d, best cows to 14 pounds 1s 6d, noting overall strong market as 79 cattle were sold.
A heavy yarding of 6100 sheep and lambs, 570 pigs, and four cattle was offered at North Fremantle in December. Prime lambs and heavy weights sold firm to higher while sheep eased and many pens remained unsold at close. Pigs fell to 7s 6d for slips with limited demand beyond prime light porkers. total sold 3410 sheep and lambs, 410 pigs, 6500 unsold.
A list of livestock consignments with counts from multiple buyers and districts. Notable entries include hundreds of sheep from Beverley, York, Wagin, and Dowerin, plus a spread of fat cattle and hoggets. Owners and consignors include Mitchell of Northampton and Pearce of Bridgetown among others.
Dalgety and Company Limited reports in mid December 1914 that northern areas Derby Broome Fitzroy and Bamboo Creek saw over two inches of rain while southern regions had little rain. Demand remains strong for crossbred wethers and ewes and station ewes, with no large mobs on the market. Store cattle for fattening are in good demand but few local cattle exist. buyers expect overland mobs next season.
Quality scarce with limited tolls. Prime cattle sold £15 to £16 10s and some £17 17s 6d. Useful stock £13 to £14, plain £9 to £11, a few inferior lower. Best cows £14 1s Gr, good £11 to £13, useful £9 to £?
At Fremantle market on December 16 the yarding totaled 6100 sheep and lambs, 570 pigs and four cattle. Prime heavy Merino wethers sold from 18s to 21s 3d, with fair 14s to 16s and stores 12s to 14s. prime ewes fetched 15s to 18s, with good 14s to 16s and inferior stores 10s 3d to 12s.
A brief item notes the sale of stock for Mr. James Gardiner of Moora. The listing is a concise private sale notice with the name and location readable from the fragment.
The report lists lamb prices by weight and quality from prime heavies to stores with values from 6s 6d to 18s and up to 20s for exceptional. Pigs show back fatters 50s to 63s, choppers 45s to 56s, heavy porkers 38s to 43s, and stores 12s to 16s, with other categories at 7s 6d to 12s 9d and weaners minuscule.
Account Gascoyne owner lists livestock at market prices in York district including 411 bullocks, 3 Lincoln rams, 276 ewes, 400 lambs, 750 ewes and 50 to 150 ewes in varying weights. Katanning district reports 201 wethers and 142 ewes with lambs. Moora district records 272 sheep and 25 sheep at listed prices.
Eustace Cohen announces joining M. J. Herbert Bales to form HALES and COHEN in Perth. They practice as architects in Forrest Chambers M. Georges Terrace and Austral Chambers Stephen Street Bunbury. Also listed: Education, accounts, and trust funds services offered by local agents.
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