LOAN AND MERCANTILE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 246, 17 October 1929, Page 4

LOAN AND MERCANTILE.

Tie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., reports:— .Beef was .penned in fewer numbers than last week. The market showed a better tone: and values improved. Extra choice ox sold to £2 3/ per lOOlb; choice and prime, £1 19/ to £2 2/; ordinary and plain, £1 17/ to £1 18/6; prime young oow and heifer beef, £1 18/ to £2; other eow 'beef, £1 IS/ to £1 17/ J extra heavy prime steers, £17 10/ to £18 10/; heavy prime, £15 17/6 to £17 7/G; lighter prime, £14 10/ to £15 15/; light prime, £13 to £14 7/6; unfinished and email, £11 to £12 17/6; extra heavy "prime young cows jind hdfere, £12 10/ to £13 15/; heavy prime, £11 to £12 7/6; lighter, £0 to £10 17/6; light cows, £7 10/ to £8 15/; other cows, £6 to £7 7/6. Prime steers from Mr. Fred Bregmen realised up to £18 10/; prime fat cows penned by Mr. W. Roberta, Pakuranga, realised up to £13 1/. Sheep were yarded in average numbers. There wae a steady demand, ■with values on a par with last week. Heavy prime wethers, shorn, made £1 8/6 to £1 0/6; medium", prime, shorn, £17/ to £] 8/3; light prime, ehorn, £1 5/ to *1 p/9; email and unfinished, ehorn, £1 I 2v $} *^ ; heaVT P rim * ew€s - £1 V' 3 V) r a 9; mediu m prime, £1 0/6 to £1 1/ light prime, 18/ to £1; prime shorn ™f£ fi y £i g / 9 - s p™* iambs VL £t v 1 ln aV / taße n «mbere, competition wae keen and values again advanced Heavy prime made £1 vffi Z £1 14?" medium prime. £1 ft/ ( .'fi w ?'?: Vorkm, £2 10/ to £3 3/: small an A* jmwncfi, vt to i.2 8/. Store pi R8 were la keen demand and valuoe advanced on Jato qiiotfttione. Largo efcorce mado £2 tn £2 8/; eHM, £1 10/ to £1 18/; weanej, 10/ it> £1 2/. Calree wore (penned in aver-

age numbers. Values eased on late quotations. Runners made £5 to £7 8/6; heavy vralers, £4 to £4 10/; medium, £3 8/ to £3 18/; light, £2 10/ io £3 6/; smaller, £2 'to £2 8/; email and fresh-dropped, 7/ to £1 18/; rough calves, £1 to*£l 15/. ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS. Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report: Our beef pens contained 264 head, as n against 284 head at last Wednesday's mar)l ket, comprising 171 steers and 93 cows and n heifers. There was a steady demand 3 J throughout. First quality medium and light- ~ weight cattle were slightly better worth. Other classes were unchanged. Extra * choice ox sold to £2 3/ per 1001b; choice and prime, £1 18/ to £2 2/; secondary * and plain, £1 15/ to £1 17/; prime young ■* cow and heifer beef, £1 16/ to £2; ordinal ary cow beef, £1 12 /to £1 15/; extra * heavy prime steers, £17 15/ to £18 12/6, ■J the latter price for steers from Mr. G, * I Vosper, Maungatautari, bought by Mr. T. '" Baster, Ponsonby Road; heavy prime, * £15 15/ to £17 12/6; lighter prime, £14 r to £15 12/6; light prime, £12 10/ to £1 8 17/6; small and unfinished, £9 to £12 7/6; 1 extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £11 15/ to £12 17/6; heavy prime cows , and heifers, £10 10/ to £11 12/6; lighter J prime, £8 to £10 7/6; other killable cows, 3 £5 5/ to £7 17/6. The highest averages , for steers were:—Eight from Mr. G. Vosper. Maungatautari, £17 8/2; 24 from , Mr. W. Vosper, Cambridge, £16 11/10; \ seven from Mr. L. R. W. Reid, Te Hoe, . £16 4/8; 16 from Mr. W. C. Ring, Hinuera, - £16 2/10; 16 from Mr. John Hanks, Te i Aroha, £15 10/9; 11 from Mr. W. J. . Ellett, Ihumata, £14 13/7; 10 from Mr. i E. A. Price, Cambria Park, £14 .12/. . There was a moderate yarding of sheep, i and only a limited demand. Values were i much the same as those ruling last week. Extra heavy prime wethers, woolly, £1 17/6 to £1 19/; heavy prime, woolly, £1 15/6 to £1 17/; shorn, £1 8/ to £1 9/j medium to heavy prime, woolly, £1 14/ to £1 15/3; shorn, £1 6/6 to £1 7/9; light to medium prime, woolly, £1 12/6 to £1 13/9; shorn, £1 5/ to £1 6/3; unfinished, shorn, £1 2/ to £1 4/9; extra heavy prime young ewes, woolly, £1 9/; shorn, £1 1/6 to £1 4/; haavy prime, woolly, £1 7/6 to £1 8/6; shorn, £1 to £1 1/3; lighter prime, shorn, 17/ to 19/6 (787 sheep sold). The 74 spring lambs penned were of good quality. There was a keen demand, with a sharp rise in ' values. Extra heavy prime lambs made £1 16/ to £1 17/9, the latter price for lambs from Mr. Noel Litchfield, Patumahoe, bought by the Auckland Meat Company, Ltd.; a line of 27 lambs from Mr. N. Litchfield averaged £1 16/10; heavy prime lambs,' £1 13/ to £] 15/6; lighter prime* £1 8/9 to £1 12/6. Our calf pens were again well filled. Prime vealers sold at late rates, but values for all bucket-fed and small calves were lower. Heavy runners made £6 8/ to £9 17/6; two prime Hereford heifers from Mr. H. A. Swafh'eld, Papatoetoe, realised £9 7/ and £9 17/, being purchased by Mr. John Rowe, Newmarket, and Mr. A. W. Scotting, St. Helier's Bay; heavy prime vealers made £4 15/ to £5 6/; medium, £4 4/ to £4 8/; light, £3 to £3 11/; small vealers, £2 4/ to £2 12/; good bucket-fed calves, £1 13/ to £1 18/; rough and unfinished, 19/ to £1 7/; fresh-dropped and small, 3/ to 15/ (239 calves sold). We had an

i average yarding of fat pigs. There was keen bidding for all classes, values for baconers being very firm, with prices for porkers showing an increase. Choppers made £2 5/ to £3 10/ (no heavy choppers were Offered); heavy prime baconers, £4 16/ to £5; medium,. £4 9/ to £4 13/; light, £3 18/ to £4 2/; heavy porkers, £3 5/ to £3 9/; medium, £2 16/ to £3 1/; light, £2 10/ to £2 13/; small and unfinished, £2 4/ to £2 7/. The demand for stores was also good. Best made £2 4/ to £2 12/; smaller, £1 16/ to £2 1/; slips, £1 7/ to £1 12/; good weaners, 19/ to £1 4/; small, 13/ to 16/ (357 pigs sold).