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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 204, 27 August 1909, Page 3

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MESSRS ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS' REPORT. Horses.—At the Haymnrket on Friday last we had an average entry. Wagon and express sorts realised from £25 to £30; bnggy hoises and hacks, £11 5/ to £21; light harness and ordinary riding eorts, £6 to £18; weeds and ponies, all prices. Gig, iltt; spring trap, £8 10/. Hides, Skins, Tallow, etc.—Hides: Ox, od to 6Jd; cow, 4Jd" to 51d; calf, 6d to fjd; kip, 4Jd to old; horse, 10/ to 15/3. Tallow, £1 to £1 2/U; horsehair, 1/5; bones, 4,1). Skins: Best Butchers', 3/ to 5/11; others, 3/6 to 4/0; dry nnd country, 2/9 to 5/S; small and damaged, 1/ to 2/6. At l'apakura Valley on Saturday we held a special sale ot Mr H. Muir's dairy cows, etc. There was a large attendance nnd very satisfactory prices were obtained. Cows sold from £6 10/ to £8 12/6 for best, others £3 10/ to £5 10/; heifers, f3 to £5 IS/; heifer calves, £1 12/; bull, £6 15/; bay mare, £26; grey Ally, £14 17/6; chestnut mare, £10 lb/; mowing machine, £8 10/; disc, £2 12/6; separator, £3 10/; troughs, £1 10/ to f3 0/; paddock gates, £1 to £1 2/; gig, £8; dray, £4; sows, £4 1/ to £5 1/; boar, £4 14/. A number of cows nnd heifers on account of other owners made from £3 17/6 to £8. On Wednesday, at the Pukekohe Yards, we held a special sale of dairy cattle, and put through 458 head. There was a large attendance of buyers, and a strong demand for good cows and heifers. Late high values were well maintained. Cows carrying second to fourth calves and close to profit made from £7 10/ to £9 15/; others not so forward, £6 to £7 5/; more aged sorts, £4 10/ to £5 15/; old and Inferior, £2 10/ to fl. Choice heifers met with keen competition, selling nt from £7 7/6 to flO; others, £4 10/ to £G 15/; sinnll and weedy, £2 15/ to £3 15/. The advertised Holsteins realised from £4 10/ to £S: bulls. £2 15/ to £10 10/. At Remuera on Thursday stock of all classes were well represented, and on the whole prices were easier, owing no doubt to the dirty weather prevailing. The advertised dairy cows nnd heifers brought from £2 to £3 10/; dry, 30/ to £4. The store bullocks were not all sold. Two pens brought £6 2/6 each, the balance being pnssed. Young and fat calves rangen In price from 2/ to 48/; 50 sold. There was an average yarding of fat cattle of choice quality, nnd last week's prices were barely sustained. Steers ranged In price from £!> to £10 7/6; cows, £4 to £7 12/6; 362 sold. Fifteen hundred and thirty-two fat sheep of real good quality were penned. Prices were on the down grade, although our quotations were higher. Extrr. heavy wethers brought from 20/ to 24/6, lighter weights to 18/; heavy ewes to 17/6. others to 15/; spring lambs, 12/ to 10/. Pigs, penned in larger numbers than usual, sold freely. Small realised from 7/ to 12/; slips, to 18/; porkers, to 38/6; no heavy penned; 157 sold. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 28. Wheat: Old, 4/11 to 5/. About 10,000 bags of new wheat have (been sold locally at equal to about 4/ In the country. Flour: £11 10/. Oats: Algerian feeding, 2/2 to 2/3; seeding, 2/4 to 2/5; Tasmanlan, 2/7 to 2/8. Barley: Cape, 3/3. Maize: 3/10 to 4/. Bran and pollard: £4 15/. Potatoes: Tasmanlan, £7 10/ to £9 10/. Onions: Victorian, £7 10/; Japanese, £9 to £10. Butter: 116/. Cheese: OJd. Bacon: 7|d. MELBOURNE, August 26. Wheat: 4/6 to 4/11. Oats: Algerian feeding, 1/9 J. Barley: Good malting, English, 3/0; Cape. 2/8. Maize: 3/6. 'Bran: lOd. Pollard: 1/. Onions: £6 to £6 5/. Potatoes: £4 5/ to f4 10/. ADELAIDE, August 26. Wheat: Sales 4/6}, holders asking to 4/8. Flour: £10 15/. Bran and pollard: lid. Oats: Algerian, 1/10. KAIAPOI WOOLLEN COMPANY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. The -annual meeting of the Kaiapol Woollen Company was held to-day. The directors' report recommended a dividend of 7 per cent on ordinary shares, nnd 6} per cent on preference shares. After making provision for depreciation £4000, repairs f2241, and reserve £1500, and after providing for the dividend, the profit and loss account showed a (balance of £841 7/1.