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[?] Planters Ask: [?]hy Not Sell little On Application?
m a Special NG Correspondent, number of fairly successful sales in New Guinea and New n over the past eight months rrompted the suggestion that Sew Guinea Administration \ extend the services of its department to specifically sell on application. the recent sales have been ctions, and the cattle offered ,ve been described as “stock s to Administration require 3rs who attended the most sale—at Kurakakaul Live- Station near Rabaul—were emphatic in their views that should always be available vate sales if the Administra dshed to give concrete assis to a potential cattle industry, banter who attended the sale sed the general opinion when d: ’s face the fact that few of >w much about cattle, but if ild come to a livestock station uy one or two beasts after r , a bit of advice, we would iegin to learn, would be ready to pay for and ready availability, and hat a plan of this nature receive consideration.”
Rabaul sale was held on r 15, and was the first cattle i in New Britain since 1926 a yarding of nearly 1,000 was , compared with a yarding of the recent sale.
£2O A Head
ioneer Bernie Viggers, of i, completed the sale in about lours, getting an average price ; over £2O a head, ials of the Department of Iture —which operates the akaul Livestock Station—did mment to a great extent on itcome of the sale, but ex l general satisfaction at the obtained. main point noticeable in the I was the lack of consistency, g often lapsed for worth lines, and yet sometimes d very high for poor quality gs. 1 the offering consisted of lines, and the yarding was up of Aberdeen Angus, rras, Jersey Cross and Jersey, price was £3B/10 - each for f three heavy Aberdeen Angus
Steers, bought by Lae butcher Mr Eric Whitton who came to Rabaul for the sale. Mr. Whitton was the largest individual buyer, paying a total of £BlO in all for 38 cattle Other buyers included Roman Catholic mission interests, planters a native truck-driver and a native store attendant.
In view of Mr. Whitton’s attend ance at the sale it was particularly noticeable that no Rabaul butcher ing interests were represented.
Within 24 hours of the walls of the Suva Military Cemetry being repaired and painted in October part of them had been broken down and defaced by vandals. Fiji frequently suffers outbreaks of vandalism.