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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2217, 15 June 1908, Page 1

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house sale: Tliero was only a small attendance of /buyers at Messrs ' Williams and Kettle’s horso sale on Saturday. The horses offered were not of a very high class, and a spiritless sale resulted. Unbroken, poines sold for from os to 10s, and hacks ranged in price from £3 to £lO. ; PRODUCE 9AODES.: t Messrs E. S. Malcolm and Co. report as follows on the poultry and produce sales on 'Saturday:—'Ducks Is lid to 2s• 2d. fowls 1 9'd to 21, roosters 2s to 3s' 6d, eggs 2s 2d and 2s 3d, butter lid ami is, walimts.4d, potatoes Id lb; or 13s sack, onions IJU ,Ib.. or 10s Gd 1001 b sack, carrots, cabbages, and , turnips at usual rates, pumpkins 2s 6d and 3s.per sack, .marrows 2s doz., a consignment of 180 aoz. cliilled egges .brought Is (kl ,per dozen. GISBORNE EXPORTS. ‘ The Customs Department, reports that -The exports of .produce 'fronUlhe port of Gisborne during the month erf May were : 3991 cwt of frozen 'beef, valued at £4364; 9780 cw- of mutton, coin] rising. 20,070 carcases, valued at £12,959; 3608 cwt of lamb, comprising 12,075 carcases, valued at £6502.; 662 hides,' valued- at £728; -29.72 b skins,' valued at £2648.; lot .tons of tallow, valued at £2752; and 960.964 lbs .'of wool, valued-at £28,834,