AT WESTFIELD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 184, 5 August 1936, Page 8

AT WESTFIELD.

BEEF SHORTAGE.

PRICES UP 1/ PER iQQyj

GOOD QUALITY OFFERi Ng

| The cattle pens were very bare attt jwestfield fat stock sales to-day. yarding of beef was some hundred head short of last week's figure. The quality of stock offered was good and a k sale resulted. Quotations are 1/ yJ* 11 at 31/ per 1001b for prime ox beef ° a ill 30/ per 1001b for cow and heifer beef A line of steers sold on account'' t Mr. J. H. Haughton, Waimauku 1 f to £14 Id/, top price Tor tlie dav' Bp ! Wd was £13 paid for a steer from Mr H. Stone, o Waerenga while first-clasa beef from the farms of Mr R h t, and -Mr. B. Keed, in the same di'sH realised up to £12 10/ in both cases n yarding of calves was shorter a fairly keen demand, prices verv v P r firm on last week's rates. Two exs. tionally choice runners sold on a nm , , of Mr. J. A. Hill, Olunewai, made £7 "J

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS. Dalgety and Co., Ltd. , Beef.—We yarded 209 bead' of berf comprising 19 steers and *190 cows heifers, against 233 head last week Ti quality -was again first class and wast keen demand, prices improvinz 1 / „„ 10011) on last week. Extra choice ox iu to 31/ per 1001b; choice and prime 971 to 30/; secondary and plain, 22/ to' 2«/ prime cow and Jieifer bppf 98/ * 30/; secondary, 22/ to 27/. No extra f * or- heavy prime steers were penne/ lighter, £10 12/6 to £11 12/6; light fo i to £10 5/; small and unfinished £g 7/1 to £0 2/6. Extra heavy/prime cows and heifers, £9 to £10 12/6- Wr £7 15/ to £8 15/; lighter, £5 15/ 17i 10/; other killable cows, £2 10/ to' £5 10/ N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd Beef. Our yarding was less than an average one. Competition was keen and values firmed about 1/ p er 1001b on St weeks sale. Extra choice ox sold tn VI per 1001b; choice and prime, 27/ to 30/• secondary and plain, 24/ to 26/; priml young cow and heifer beef, 27/ to W secondary, 22/ to 26/. Extra heavy pfi Steers ranged m price from £13 15/ f. £14 15/; heavy, £12 10/ to £13 10A lighter, £11 to £12 0/; light, £9 to fio 10/; small and unfinished, £7 ,t 0 £» 1;/ Ext™ heavy prime young S heifeis, £ J to £10 15/; heavy £7 in/ to £S 15/; lighter, £6 to £7 5/;' light £4 to £5 15/; others, £2 10/ to £4 Calves.—Our yarding was lew than usual few heavy vealers being penned and the majority of calves heing. smalL Ihe demand was keen and the values showed an advance 011 last week's quotations. Runners, £2 10/ to £6 9/; heavy vealers, £5 0/ to £5 15/; medium, £410/ £1 to £* Z? '/ 3 10/ 2° £ ! 5/; smaller £3 to £3 8/; others, £1 10/ to £2 16/rough calves, £1 to £1 10/; bobby cal™ 0/ to 10/. 1

INDIVIDUAL LOTS. Steers. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile r, c i 1 r c^" I • -ktd.—On account of P. and 1. Mil , Maungaturoto, 8, £8 15/ to £a 10/; A. Oil-, Will, 3, £9 10/: H. K 1 opper, .Karaka, 7, £8 2/6 to £9 17/6; estate of B. Weston, Papatoetoe, 5, ffi 12/ iS to £8 17/0; J. H. Haughton, Wai'U'l I'.ku, 10,. £12 5/ to £14 15/. I'M.—On. account o' Din-le, Waiotira, it, £8 7/6 to £10 15/; 17/0 Tlxau > 10 < £s 5 / .to £t • Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd. —0a account of (J. Akn-a Baker, Port Wailiato, 9, £8 to £11 10/; jT. Stone, Waerenga, to £13; R. H. Reed, Waerenga, 8, £11 to £12 10/; B. Reed, Waerenga, £10 12/6 to £12 10/. Cows and Heifers. _ DaJgety and Co., Ltd.—On account of JJingle and Sons, Waiotira, 16, £5 7/6 to V ir'ft ex silvei 'hope, 21, £7 to £8 15/; A. iiell s estate, Helensville, a line, -up t° W; ex Gisborne, 10, £7 5/. to £5 Thomi«on and Ernst, WJiakatane, 9, to £8; Trewin Bros., Marohemo, 10, £6 17/6 to £9 10/; C. Proctor, Oiiinewai, 9, £5 15/ to £5 5/; H. Windsor, Matangi, a line, up to £8 10/; J. A. Hill, Oliinewai, 8, £5 to £10 12/6. Alfred Buckland and Sous, Ltd. -On account of Boll's estate, Papamoa, 3, £9 7/6 to £10 17/6; C. Alma Baker, Port Walk a to, 9, £6 8/ to £8 10/; A. P. Piker, Gisborne, 20. £7 17/6 to £10; J. Gibnan, Pakmanga, 2, £6 12/6 to £8; W. Main, lirau, 18, £7 12/6 to £9 15/. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.—On account of J. H. Haughton, Waimauku, 4, £6 7/0 to £10 15/; F. R. Paulsen, Te Kauwhata, 9, £5 ~/(j to £S 10/; R. 11. Reed, Waerenga, 7, £5 32/0 to £9; E. W. Reed, Waerenga, 2, £7 10/; ex Gisborne, 19, £7 2/6 to £8 10/; Be IPs estate, Helensville, 3, £7 15/ to £9 7/6; J. Egan, Karaka, 5, £5 5/ to £8 17/6. Calves. Dalgety and Co., Ltd. —On account of Dingle and Soils, Waiotira, 8, £3 14/ to £5 12/6; J. Hastie, Matata, 14, up to £3 ]6/; J. A. Hill, Oliinewai, 2, £7 and £7 1/. •

Alfred Bnckland and Sons, Ltd. — On account of F. Marris, Xaumai, IS, up to £2 19/; Hamilton Bros.. Whenuakite, o, £3 to £4 16/; H. 1). Jones, Onewliero, L £4 1/; J, McFarlane, Port Waikato, 1, ££ 1/.: F- T- Roberts, Mangere, 1, £2 7/; VV. Collie, Glen'brook, 1, 25J.

Ken- Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. —■ On account of RGraham, Mangere, 2, £2 13/; T. A. Gubb, Hoteo, 10, up to £3; S. Petrie, Maungaturoto, 1, £3 5/; R. Wvllie, Papatoetoe, 3, up to £3 1/; A. Orr, Wiri, 3, up to £4 11/; J. Egan, Karaka, 1, £6 9/; W-Cash-more and Sons, Clevedon, 7, up to £G 7/.