LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 4

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

KAIKOHE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHAXGAREI, this day. A small yarding was presented by the Xorth Auckland Farmers' Co-op., Ltd., at Kaihoke yesterday. Competition was brisk and everything changed hands. Quotations: Good dairy heifers, £4 5/ to £4 15.'; medium dairy heifers, £3 12 6 to £4 2, 6; dairy cows, £4 15/ to £5 2 6; fat cow* £4 18/ to £5 12 6; light fat cows, £3 15/ to £4 12/6; fresh conditioned cows. £3 12,6 to £4 5/; boner cows, 35/ to £2 17/6; yearling steers, £3 10/ to £4 7.6; yearling Shorthorn heifers. £2 I.V to £3 12 6; boner bulls, £4 10/ to £5 12.6; light boner bulls, £3 to £4 5/. OHAEAWAI. Quite a fair yarding came through for the Ohaeawai sale of the Xorth Auckland Farmers' Co-op., Ltd., on Thursday. Everything sold under the hammer. Quotations: Dairy cow 6, £4 15/ to £5 7/6; dairy heifers, £4 10/ to £5 5,/; light prime ox beef, to £11 7,6; fat cows, good quality, medium weight, £5 10/ to £5 19/; light fat cows, £4 15/ to £5 7/6; fresh conditioned cows, £3 15/ to £4 5/; boner cows, heavy, £2 10/ to £3 2,'; light •boner cows, 35/ to £2 7/6; cows and calves, £4 10/ to £5 1/; yearling Shorthorn steers, £3 15/ to £4 12/6; yearling coloured steers, £2 10/ to £3 5/; boner bulls, medium weight, made from £4 10/ to £5 5/; light boner bulls, £3 15/ to £4 7/6. PAPAKURA SALE. A moderate yarding was offered in the dairy section at the Panakura sale yesterday conducted by the Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Mr. ,T. Hardwick being the. auctioneer. Xo quality cattle were offered, the best of those in the dairy section making up to £8; fair cows, £5 10/ to £7: backward. £4 to £5 5/: fat cows, to £8 5/; good sorts, £6 to £7 10/: lighter. £4 10/ to £5 15/; meaty cows, £3 to £45/; bulls, £3 to £7 2/6; weaner pigs, to 19/. A quantity of timber and an assortment of farm sundries sold under good competition to a fair bench of buyers.