AUCKLAND STOCK- SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 53, 2 March 1916, Page 8

AUCKLAND STOCK- SALES.

The N.ew Zealand Loan and Mercantile As K*S- Cp™P*ny,. Limited, report!-? At Westfield yards last Thursday dairy cattle were penned in small numbers',ahd sood-at. late rates. Best dateTcows and heifers £7-10/ to £11 IS/, to £1; empty, cows, £3 to £6 15/:-bulls £0 in/ *°$°A ?° , store *&_&s&. v At Albert lards on.Friday horses were yarded- in-.small lumbers, iellim? at late rates. . :.Heavy. draughts, £25 to £S4 in/ S^Ti'f-l S& 10/: hacks.'.£lo" to £18; light harness horses. £9 10/ to £17H? n iS?7 f4^lo/ - to *»; 10/ upwardsto' £2 10/.' Quantity harness at late rates On ,Saturday at Avondale we held' a clearing sale on . account of Mr T r Thomas, practically everything b'eins sold at .late prices. - »«= =~iu At -VV,hitford.on .Tuesday we held a clear- ; mc sale on account of Mr W. H SkltHi There--was;a- large attendance of burrs' everything being sold at late rates. - Messrs Alfred Buckland and : Sons ,reAt.'the Haymarket on Friday.last we bad.an average yarainj: of horses. Area draughts reausea- from £14 10/ to t*t draughts £28 to £3i,<gro«r6' and .bakers' cart class £15 10/ to light harness sorts £7 to £14 10/. c \_ nouTrti and ordinary 10/ to £12 Tsrh? spring carts flu 10/.to £16. The thoroiitS bred mare Arch-Girl sold for M:guta*is^ At Pukenui oa Tuesday we held a cltunnoe sale at Mr F. Rodger's. There« well? 86 ' :attendailce ' an<t . everything sow We held our weekly sale of dairy inn store stock at Westfield on TAuTsdav fS? niary-34. There continues to he ,?n" united demand, for dairy lows best Jit iug from £12 to £14 15/, othere Sf L AY aged and inferior £4 10/ Uy_f if ) '*2 m a i £3 10/.to £4 15/. calves £1 10/ .to £2"la/ iAt Opaheke on Tinraday, FebroarV <v we conducted|*'Clearing of Mr ,T. O.Shea. There -was a large attendance, and everything; sold well the cows meeting with-a specially sale Cows, milking and to ; calve July and ■Ausust. brought from £8 to £11 a/ \ B <?,ZZ £7 to £11,2/(3. horses £20 to £36, "carts 1? to £20.' ploughs £2 to £2 15/. V tS fl ' We held our usual monthly sale in tva Pukekohe Yards on/Monday 7 and for . _\ time of year had a large yarding. B,,vor* were present, ami practically evemSinc .sold, young cattle being keenly-WS-i£l te ih/^;m° v a^J^ iters solil "* from ! S„-■' - a 2 ?'• em Pty cows- £4 .to xn |7/a fresh-condition three/to three and n half year-old steers £9 to £10 10/ two , % --hall year-olds £6 to ' £7 18/, T yeartuib to 18-months' steers £4 to -£5 5/ BO ort «w calves' £2*lo/ to £3 3/. mixed .to £2 14/, smaller carves n-lSAtoTif s/ JS-montlMf-Jietfere £4 to £4 16/, fct^»m