STOCK SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1926, Page 4

STOCK SALES.

WESTFIELD. ; I _____ Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report: — Yesterday fct our weekly Westlleld stocK market, our beef pens contained 515 head, as against 508 hpacl last week, comprising 2G2 steers, 259 cows and heifer?, and four bulls. There was an improved demand, and ltg-htwelght choice and prime oxeti were better worth. Prime heiler beet was also a trifle firmer. Extra choice ox sold to £1 14/; choice and prime ox, £1 12/ to £1 13/6; ordinary and plain ox, £1 7/ to £i 10/; prime young cow and heirer beer, £1 5/ to £1 9/; ordinary cow beer, £l to £1 4/; plain and rough, 15/ to 19/; heavy prime steers, £13 to £H 15/; no extra heavy weight cattle penned; lighter prime steers, £11 lv/ to £12 17/6; light prime steeps, CiO to £11 7/C; small and unnnished steers, £6 10/ to £9 15/; extra heavy prime young cows and tiel'fers, £9 to £!) 17/G; heavy prime cowe and hetTcrs, £7 5/ to £8 17/(5; lighter prime cows and heifers, £6 to £7 2/6; other tillable cows, £4 15/ to £5 17/6; old and Doner cows, £2 10/ to £4 12/6; bulls, £3 to £11. There was scarcely an average yarding or sheep, the demand and values being- similar to last week's sale. Heavy prime wethers made £i 8/0 to £1 10/0; medium to heavy prime wethers, £1 6/ to £1 8/3; light to medium prime wethers, £1 4/ to £1 5/9; unnnished wethers, £1 do £1 3/9; extra heavy prime young , ewes, £1 2/ to £1 4/6; heavy prime ewe 3, £1 0/6 to £1 1/9; lighter prime ewes, 18/ to £1; liglu killable ewes, 16/ to 17/9; other ewes, 14/ to 15/6. The lambs which came forward met with steady sale at ruling rates. Heavy prime lambs made £1 4/ to £1 5/6; llg-hter prime lambs, £1 2/ to £1 3/9; light prime lambs, £1 to £1 1/9; email and plain lambs, 14/ to 10/6; Calves were penned In less than average niimtiers, the demand being- steady 'throughout, with values about equal to late quotations. RUnners made from £3 3/ to £4 5/; heavy vealers, £3 1/ to £3 18/; medium vealers, £2 2/ to £3 11/; ligrltt vealers, £i 11/ to £2 1/; small and fresh-dropped, 2/ to 21/ (200 sold). A good yarding or pigs sold at prices equal to last week. Choppers made £1 17/6 to £4 12/; heavy baconers, £3 18/ to £i 6/; light and medium, £3 11/ to £3 15/; heavy porkers, £3 to £3 5/; light and medium, £2 9/ to £i 16/; small porkers, £1 16/ to £3 5/; unfinished pig-s, £1 14/ 10 £2 e/. store pigs sold steadily at late rates; best, £1 12/ to £1 18/; smaller, £1 4/ ■to £1 10/; weane'rs, up to 18/ (431 sold). The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency report:—At Westflekl fat stock market yesterday be6f was penned In less than average numbers, prime choice quality cattle selling readily under keen competition at an advance of 2/ to 3/ per 1001b. Other classes remained unchanged. Extra choice ox sold'to 35/ per 1001b; choice and prime ox, 30/ to 34/; ordinary and plain ox, 23/ to 29/; prime, young cow and heifer beer, 26/ ito 30/; ordinary cow toeef, 21/ to 25/; rough beef, 15/ to 19/; heavy prime steers, £13 15/ to £15; fighter prime steers, £12 .to £13 10/; light prime steers, £10 to £11 15/: unfinished and small, £8 10/* to £9 15/; heavy prime young- cows ami heifers, £$ to £8 15/; lighter, £7 to £7 15/; liglit cows, £5 to £6; other cows, £2 10/ to £4 15/. Sheep were yarded In less than average numhers, and consequently improved in Values, especially ewes. Heavy prime "wethers made £1 9/ to £1 10/6; medium prime wethers, £1 7/ to £i 8/0; light prime wethers, £1 5/ to £1 6/0; small and unfinished wethers, £1 2/ .to £1 4/9; heavy prime ewes, £1 2/ to £1 4/; medium prime ewes, 10/ to 21/6; light prime ewes, 16/ to 18/6; inreriorly fatted ewes, 7/ to 8/. Lambs were penned in average numbers, and sola at late quotations. Heavy prime made £1 5/3 to XI 6/6; medium prime, £1 3/6 to £i 5/; light prime, £1 1/ to £1 3/; unfinished, 10/ to 17/. Pigs wore penned in average numbers. Values Tor baconers remained, firm, but porkers -were easier on late quotations. Choppers sow from £2 12/6 to' £4 17/6; heavy and medium baeoners, £3 18/ to £4 6/: light baeoners and heavy porkers, £3 to £3 16/; .medium porkers end light porkers, £2 8/ to £2 18/; small and unfinished porkers, '£1 15/ to £2 -5/. Store pigs in average numbers sold at late quotations. Large stores made £1 5/ to £1 12/; slips, 16/ to £1 3/; weaners, 8/ to 16/. Calves were penned In small numbers, and were dull of sale, only beat quality calves meeting with any competition. Runners made £3 3/ .to £4 2/6; heavy vealors, £2 5/ to £3 6/; medium, £t 12/ to £2 2/; light, £1 to <£i 10/; smaller, 10/ to 18/; small and freshdropped, 3/ to 9/; rough-calves,6/ to 12/ Dalgety and company. Limited, report as follows on the Westfield sale yesterday:— Beef. —There was a smaller yarding- and in consequence values improved, especially Tor well-finished cattle. Extra choice and prime ox made 34/ jrer 1001b; choice and prime, 28/ to 31/; ordinary and plain, 25/ to 27/; prime young cow and heirer beef, 26/ 20/; ordinary, 21/ to 23/-. rough, 16/ to 2(/,. Sheep.—A. fair yard-. Ing, there being little or no change in! values. Heavy prime -wethers made £1 10/6; medium, 28/ to 29/6; email and ■unfinished. 23/ to 26/; best heavy prime ewes, 22/6; medium, 21/: light and unfinished, 17/ to £1. Lambs.—A small yarding, prices being practically unchanged. Exporters were not very keen. Heavy prime lambs made 23/6 to 25/; medium, «l 2/ to £1 3/: lipht, £1 to £1 l/; shorn, £1 t/ to £1 2/. calves.—A short yarding, competition being- keen tor good quality, but plain calves met with a dull sale. Runners made £4 to £4 8/; heavy vealers, £2 15/ to £3 5/; m«dlum, £2 1/ to I 2 ii/- light £1 12/ to £2; small, 14/ to £1 2/;'rreshvl??P ea, t?< t0 £7/ - Piers'—An average yarding-. Prices Tor baeoners were firm at late rates, but porker 3 were slightly easier Medium and heavy baeoners, £4 to A «w'*« /P*4«/ BCOne J, B ana heav y Powers, «3 2/ to £2 15/ medlum and "B™ Porkers! — IL_ AT7CKLAND. Alfred Auckland and Sons, Ltd., reportDuring the week we held sales at Westlleld, Pukekohe, Pokeno, and Runciman, and a pig- sale at Waiuku. There were fair yarttlngs and prices obtained were similar to those ruling the previous week. Dairy cows at profit made £10 10/ to £15 5/ Tor best; second grade, £6 10/ to £10- aged and inferior, £2 10/ to £6; three to rour-year-old steer.s, £6 10/ to £8 5/- two to three-year-old steers, £4 15/ to £6 10/----yearling to 18-month-oid steers, £3 10/ to £4 10/; empty young cows, £2 10/ to £3 15/; aged store ' cows, £i to £2 5/----18-month-oM dairy iielfers, £3 to £5- light fat steers, £9 to £11 5/; rat cows and heifers, £5 to £8 2/6; rough fat COWS, £3 15/ to £4 17/6; boner cows, £2 10/ to £3 12/6; best calves, £2 to £2 10/; smaller calves,-si 10/ to£l 17/; small calves, 15/ to 27/; heavy bulls, £6 to <t& 15/; *ood herd bulls, £7 7/ to £12 12/; small bulls, £3 to £5. Pigs at Waiuku realised about Westfleld values. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:—Wβ held sales during the past week at Westlleld and Warkworth, all classes of cattle selling at late quotations. We quoteDairy cows and beirers, close to proflt, best £11 to £14 10/; others, £8 to £10 10/----backward springers, £3 10/ to £7 io/aged cows and inferior heifers, £2 to £3 7/6; bulls, £2 10/ to £7; empty cows, £1 10/ to £3 5/; yearling to 18-months heifers £1 10/ to £3; yearling- to 18-months steers, £3 5/ to £4 10/; 2 to 2}-year steers, £4 I's/ to £5 17/6; 3 to 3j.-year steers, £6 to" £7; 4 to 4i-year steers, i? 2/6 to £7 15/----grown steers In forward condition, £7 17/e to £8 5/. HAMILTON. Tlie Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report:—At the weekly stock sale held in the Frankton yards on Tuesday, rthere was a small entry of cow beef. No fat steere were penned. With, the exception .of a few pens, the quality was not up to the usual standard, and well-done cattle sold at advanced rates. The sheep pens were filled -with, principally ,rape and store lambs, there being a short market or rat sheep. Prices -were firmer ror all classes. Although the bacon companies >have reduced their price to s*d on scales, fat pigs easily maintained the values of lute markets and sold at prices equalling Cd to 64d per lb. Beer: Medium prime cows made £8 to £8 hifrL ll^- 61, ' £0 "/ to £7; light cows and r% ?Z; ?° 1° £5 17/6; plaln and ordinary, 17/fi? e£\ 10/; vea . ler S. £1 11/ 10 £1 17/6; store cows, £2 to £2 10/ SheeD--8/3: 8-ood-iramed inimi lo " l cul,s ' 6/ to 22/6. Pfg? HeavY T?P p v " d " moutlletl ew es, to £.J 5/- Mod T,™ Oners made £S 17 / S/tftWjw" la/ t0 « to ngm baconers , % £ V°/j \°? a P or porkers, £2 10/ to £ » <// ,/l med lum £ 2 5/; slips and «m,, 14/: lieht ' £2 to 30/; weaners, 6/ t QI 3/. POrkers ' 25/ 1o

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:— SX the HanMlton sale on Tuesday there was an average yafdlns or rat cows, and prices were flrm at last week's rates. A. small offering of store cattle met with a fair demand. Sheep were penned in increased numbers, and sold under brisk competition. \Ve quote: Prime rat cows. £? 1/ to £8 M; lighter. £5 11/ to £0 5/; rough rat cows, £-i 6/ to £5 I/; row? in rresh condition, £3 11/ to £i 3/; veaner S.H. ■Steers, £2 to £2 1/; bulls. £3 15/ to £5; dairy heirers, close to profit, 15/ to £7 10/; fat ewes, £1 0/1: good woolly lambs, 15/; medium lambs, ii/fi to 12/3; small, 7/6; aged store ewes. 8/9 to o/. Pigs were again yarded in full numbers, the yards being full, competition for baeoners was keen, last week's prices being fully maintained. PorKers sold at late values, .stores and weaners being dull or sale. Pfiime heavy baconers made £3 16/ to £4 if; medium, U 6/ to £3 13/; light, £2 16/ to £3 3/; porkers. £2 8/ to £2 12/: others, £2 to £2 5/; good stores, £1 10/ to £3; Slips, £1 2/ to £i 8/; winners, 14/ to 16/6; others, 8/ to 12/. ADDINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUaCH, Wednesday. The knowledge 1 hat the freezing works trouble was about overbad a helprul effect on the , Addington market to-day. The store sheep market was much brighter, while tooth Tat sheep and lambs sold with more uniiTormlty. Fat cattle, 'However, lost the preceding week's 'advance. Store sheep.—Tlipre was a much larger entry, wethers "forming: the bulk. Forward lambs sold particularly well, as did several lines or breeding owes. All round it was the best sale for some -weeks. (Jootl rape lambs, 22/6 to 34At ordinary lambs, 19/ to 21/6; cull lambs. 11/ to 17/; three-quarter-bred ewe lambs, 24/; forward Tour and six-toothed halilired wethers, 26/ to 27/8; four and ?ix-toothed halfbred wethers, 24/3 to 25/6; g-ood two-toothed half-bred wethers, 23/ to 25/; two-toothed hairbred ewes. 34/4; aged ewes. 10/3 to 14/1; low-conditioned aged ewes, 6/ to 8/6. Fat Lambs.-—Aitotal or 1660 were penned. There was some competition for export, and lambs made averape. schedule prices. Extra prime, to 34/; prime, 30/3 to 32/6; medium-weight lambs. 28/ to 30/: light lambs, 25/6 to 27/9; store lambs, 23/6 to 21/3. Fat Sheep.—Thorp was an average entry, for which there was well-sustained competition. Values were slightly easier than last week, but practically up to schedule rates. Several export firms operated and bought a limited proportion or .the entry. Extra prime wethers, to 37/1: prime wethers. 31/ to 33/6; medium wethers, 28/3 to 30/6; light wethers, 26/ to 28/; extra prime ewes, to 3 1/1: prime ewes, 26/ to 38/6; medium ewes, 22/6 to 25/0; light ewes, 19/6 to 22/. Fat Cattle. —A total or 575 were yarded, mostly cows-, but generally it was a good quality emtry. The entry was rar ahead of butchers' needs, and prices came back by 40/ to 45/ per head for big bodies, and to 35/ for smaller. Extr-a prime beef made to 42/6; primp, 37/6 to 40/<i; heavyweight, 34/6 to 37/6: medum quality, 33/ to 36/, and cow and rough hopt, rrorn 29/6 down to 22/C> per 10O11). Extra prime heavy-weight 'steers,- to £"10 7/6; prime heavy-weight steers, £16 to £17 ir>/-. prime medium-weight steers, £ii to £15 15/; medium steers. £11 15/ to £13 15/; ligitt Steers, £9 to £11 10/: rough steers, £6 15/ to £8 15/; extra prime heifers, to £11 17/6; prime heifers, £9 5/ to £11; ordinary heirers. £o 15/ to £9; light heifers, £4 to £6 10/: extra prime cows, to £12 7/6; prime rows, £8 to £10 10/; medium cows, £5 15/ to £7 15/; light cows, £3 15/ to £5 10/. Veaiers\ —There was a good sale. Calves, 15/ to 45/; extra, to 65/; runners, to £6 10/, Store cattle.—Two and three-yoar steers. £5 ;to £8 10/: two-year heirers, £2 to £2 15/; COWS, 25/ to £4 5/. Dairy Cattle.—The entry was small. Good springing cows, £8 tn £14; inferior to medium, £4 to £7 10/; best heifers, £7 to £9 10/; others, £4 to £6 in/. Fat Pigs.—A good baconer sale was experienced, but porkers eased in price. Choppers, £3 to £r,; baconers, £3 12/ to £5 15/ (average price per lb, 6d to 7d). Porkers. 50/ to 06/ (average price per lb, 7d to 7Jd). Store Pigs.—There was an improved demand, all classes selling freely. Weaners 20/ to 28/; Slips, 30/ to 40/; stores, 36/ td 50/. KAURI GUM INDUSTRY. The following table shows the exports or kauri g-um from January l to December 31, 1925, and their destination:— • ' Destination. Tons. Value. United Kingdom 2355* £180,022 United States of America 2622 211,486 Germany 138* 5,0*3 France 130 7,903 Netherlands r>7 2,280 Canada 56 3,901 Belgium , :?:( 1,168 Japan 11! 512 Australia 11 1,539 . 530S £415,772 COMPANY REPORTS. NEW ZEALAND REFRIGERATING CO. The directors of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company have recommended the payment of final dividends Tor the year ended October 31, or 9d and 4id respectively on the 20/ and 10/ shares. As the usual interim dividends of 6d and 3d. were paid in July, the distribution Tor the. year-is at tho rate or 6i per cent, tlie same as In each of the three preceding years. Following Is a comparison or the company's profits ana appropriations ror the last three years:—• 1923. 1924. 1025. Brought forward . £45,773 £47,376 £49,039 Net profits 49,103 59,163 38,320 £94,876 £106,53!) £87,308 To Reserve 10,000 20,000 — Dividend, Gi p.c. 37,500 37,500 37,500 Carried forward . £47,378 £49,039 £49,868 WELLINGTON TRUST CO. The annual report or tho Wellington, Trust, Loan, and Investment Company for the year ended December 31, states that the sum to the credit of profit and loss, after allowing ror £100 written off business premises and £4550 4/3 brought forward from the previous year, is £16,555 17/4, from which £-4375 was paid as an Interim dividend at the rate of 3* per cent. The directors recommend that "a rurther dividend be paid at the rate or 4 per cent for the second hair year, amounting- to £5000, making- 7* per cent for the year, and that £3(TOO be added to the reserve fund, making: tho latter £75,000. This will leave a balance of £4180 17/4 to be carried forward. Following is a comparison of the company's results and appropriations ror the ■last three years:— 1923. 1924. 1925. Brought forward £3,789 £4,523 £4,550 Net profits 8,850* 11,402 12,008* £12,648 £15,925 £16,55G To reserve — 2,000 3,000 Dividend p.c. 6i 7j 71 - Amount 8,125 9,375 ■ 9,375 Carried forward £4,523 £4,550 IZiil • After writing off £2168 from properties in 1023 and £100 in 1925. LONDON WOOL SALES. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 10. The wool sales opened and prices declined from 5 to 7j per cent. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) PROPERTY SALES. T..'Mandeno Jackson -will sell by public auction at their rooms, 9, Commerce Street, at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning, -under conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Court at the request of the second mortgagee, a well-built two-storey residence, two sleeping porches and all modern conveniences, and outbuilding containing two rooms and bathroom, washhouse, garage, dark room, etc., and over half-acre Innd beautifully planted and laid out in garden, etc. (Dilworth i lease, over 30 years to run, at. £38 yeat), in Kemuera Koad, just beyond Market Boad. The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency • Co., Ltd., will offer for sale by public auction at their land sale rooms. Xower Albert Street, to-morrow, Friday, at 2 p.m., instructed by Mr. F. A. Fitzwliliam, his freehold property of 392 acres, at Albany, mostly in rough feed -with plenty of kauri and very heavy ti-tree for firewood; also acting under instructions from the Registrar of the Supreme Court, a dairy farm of 262 acres, about 10 miles from Te Puke, all been grassed' but partly gone back. ... i