COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 1 April 1913, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

The .yew Zealand/ Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—We held sales during the week at Ob—po, Ngaruawahia, and Otorohanga, and report good yardings of cattle, which nearly all changed hands. Prices: Fat cows, £6 to £7; fat heifers, £6 5/ to £6 10/; store cows, £3 8/ to ■— 19/; forward cows, £4 4/ to £4 12/; 2i-year-old steers, £4 12/6 to £4 17/6; 18-inonths' old • steers, £3 16/ to £4; 15----months' old steers, £3 5/ to £3 10/; two-year-old heifers, in calf, £4 13/ to £4 17/; cows and - calves, £5 5/ to £5 15/; springing heifers, £6 10/ to £7 10/; well-grown calves of good quality £1 15/ to £2 6/, medium sorts ;£1 8/ to £1 : 12/, others £1 to £1 4/; two-tooth to f.f.m. ewes, 11/9 to 13/; two and four-tooth wethers, 13/7 to 13/10. -

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering ' Company, Ltd., report:—

.:.'; MATIERE SALE. j At' the Matiere yards on March 26th we j had an entry of 1,400 sheep and 1,100 head f of cattle, and have to report a very good / sale. Two-tooth w.etbers made 13/ to 13/6, / good woolly lambs, 0/ to 11/; really good /_j Romney-Lincoln ewes, up to 14/; f.f.m. / ewes, 0/3 to 12/; four-tooth wethers, 15/3; / J three-year steers, in good order, £6 1// J to £6 15/; 2-i-year-old steers, of which there 1 was a good entry, £5 3/ to £5 15/; 1J t'J / 2-year steers, £3 12/ to £4 10/; fat coww' H £55/ to £6; calves, 30/ to 37/6. / #;| OTOROHANGA SALE. , / /jjj At Otorohanga on March 27th there Was/ ■• a fair entry. Prices ruled much the same as iv Waikato, and nearly everything ; \vai disrtosed of. " / |. . ac Tirau, on March 27th, we had an entry of 2,712 sheep and 013 head of cattle. There was a good inquiry, and practically every- - thing -was disposed of. Eat two-tooth ewes and wethers sold at 17/6; fat ewes, .14// to 14/10; f.f.m. ewes, 10/ to 13/6; good store lambs, 8/6 to 9/10; cull lambs, 4/3 tool); small fat steers, £S 14/; fresh 3i-year steers, £7 15/; fat cows, £5 to —; really good weaner calves, "38/ to 4s?,' medium sorts 33/ to 36/; small calves, 20/ to 25/; 2-year-old dairy heifers, In calf, up to £4 18A ' T. ! .1

MORRINSVII—S S4-B. /' At Morrinsville, on March;_h,/ we had a very small entry. There was' a good inquiry, and prices improved far all classes of stock. ft

PROPERTY SALES.

—iessi-s Paul Hansen and Co. will offer iby public auction at their Land Sale Rooms to-morrow, at 2.30 pjn.jthe Lyntoti Estate, Tab Road, 'Epsom, <Jlv|rded into eleven sections. As the numljer of allotments are small In this estate, the prices are fixed with a' view to' clean-j; the whole of the estate on the day of/sale. -1 There will also be offered at the same time _—le acres of pasture land at Pa-oatoetoe on easy terms.