MARKET REPORTS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 5535, 8 October 1929, Page 4

MARKET REPORTS.

LONDON WOOL SALES. i i The Bank of New Zealand has received the following advice from their London Office under date 4th . October :— > The sales have closed with fair, competition at the lower levels. •Current Quotations: — i Merino super 15?4& to 16*4(1 per2lb •Merino ordinary I'Scl to 14d' per .lb. Merino inferior lOd to 12d per lb. ' Ha!f-bi'eds lod to 16d per lb. I 'Cross-bred fine 14d to per lb Cross-bred medium 13d to 13*4 d per lb. j Cress-bred' coarse to 13d per ! lb. ! DUVAUOHELLE MOiNTIILY STOCK! •SIALE. ! The monthly stock sale was held, at Duvaucheele saleyards on Friday, ' when a line of 33 wethers and about 150 head of cattle were yarded. The ' ( prices for all classes of cattle were 1 maintained at high prices and some ■good lines of two and 1 three-year-old-store bullocks brought big prices. There were not many prime beasts in the fat pens but anything- forward sold well at late rates. ' There was a. fairly large yarding of springers which sold 1 well if of good quality though heifers, which fonrod the major portion of the yardnig were not in such keen demand, j The range of prices was : — j Fat cows 2s Gel' to £16. j Fat heifers £8 7s Gd to .£l4 7s 6d i Yearling steers 1 £5 to £6 2s 6d I Yearling heifers £3 15s to £5 12s Gd j Store cows and 1 heifers £2 17s Gd to ! £6 10s. I Two and' three-year-old steers £1.2 j 7;- 6d to £15 12s Gd'. 1 Springers £7 5s to £13 10s j The following- .sales are reported : j Messrs Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd. rold on account J. Truman, 1 heifer fill 10s, 2 cows £12 7s Gd to £13 7s Gel; G. Kearney, cow £10 ; W. Newton, 2 at £'13 17s Gd, 6 heifers £9 5s to £11 5s 1 ; o.m account clients, springers £12 10s, £9, £10 10s, £11 ss, 8 yearlings £5 12s 6d, 8 steers £5 19s, 4 empty heifers £6 10. H. Matson and Co. sold' on account H. iMenzies,"4 fat cows £12 5s to £16; W. G. Harris, cow £9 ; J. Harris, 2 cows £8 2s 6d, 8 at £8 l'ss, heifer £8 7s 8d ; on account clients, 2 springers <8 5s and £]0 10s, store cow £6 17s Gd, 1 at £7, 1 at £2 17s Gd, 3-year £5, 2-year heifers £3 15s, 2-vear bulls £4 7s Gd, 2 cows £6 15s, 1 ait £6. N.Z. Farmers Co-op. Assn. sold on account S. J. Vogan, fat cow £6 12s od, 3at £S to £12 12s 6d; L. J. Priest, fat heifer '£14 7s Gd, 3 at £S i to £9 12s 6d; W. B. McKay, 2 fat cows £14 7s Gd ; W. Newton, 2 fat heifers £12; on account clients, 3 springers £7 ss, 1 at £8 10s, 4 at £10 10,:, 4 at £.10 10s to £13 10s, 10 3-year rteers £12 7s 6d, cdw £8 12s 6d, 3 yearlings £5 7s 6d, 2 cows £9 7s 6d. National Mortgage and Agency Co. Ltd., sold' o.n account B. H. Tosswill, •2 two and three-year-old steers at £14 17s 6d, 6 at. £12 10s to £15 12s 6d; or account clients, fat cow £13 7s 6d, ,3 yearling heifers £6 2s 6d, 3 at £4 10, 3 two-year-old heifers £6 2s 6d Loan and 'Mercantile' Agency Co, so,d on account of Mrs iM. J. LeLievre -7 sheep 33s 9d; W. McKay, 2 steers £10; on account clients, 6 yearling steers £5, dairy cow £12 15s, 3 heifers £I'l 5s to £13 15s