MASTERTON PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 16

MASTERTON PRICES

■ Bidding in some instances was slightly restricted at the Masterton spring cattle fair on Tuesday, but taken throughout the prices obtained were satisfactory. Dalgety and, Co., Ltd., offered a large yarding which sold as follows:— . '■ ■ '

Three-year-steers: Ace. G. Moore and Sons, 74 P.A. steers, £8 15s; 17 Hereford do., £8 12s 6d; 9 P.A. do., £8 2s 6d. Ace. T. R. Barrer, £8; others, £7 17s 6d, £8, to £8 2s 6d. Two-year-old steers: £6 15s, £7 to £7 10s. One-year steers: Ace. Tiki Tapu Station, 72 yearling P.A. steers, £6 4s; small do., account same venders, £5 7s; others, £5 4s, £5 12s 6d, to £5 15s. One-year heifers, £3 11s, £3 12s 6d, £3 15s, £3 17s 6d, to £3 19s. Two-year heifers: Ace. J. A. Card, £6 12s 6d; others, £6, £6 Is, to £6 2s 6d. Three-year heifers: Ace. Mesrs. Moore and Sons, £6 17s to £6 19s. Empty cows: Ace. T. R. Barrer, £5 to £4 16s; others, £4, £4 4s, £4 7s, to £4 15s. Fat bullocks, £11; fat heifers, light, £5 17s 6d, £6, £6 12s to £6 17s 6d; fat dairy cows, £4 10s to £5 ss. , ■ Wright, Stephenson, and Co., made the following sales:—Yearling steers: Ace. R. F. R. Beetham, Brancepeth, 18 Hereford steers, £5 Is; ace. O. H. Beetham Morland, 17 Hereford steers, £4 11s; ace. John Andrew, lea, 9 P.A. steers, £5 11s; ace. Peter Andrew, Langdale, 22 Herefords, £5 17s; ace. J. H Cameron, Tinui, 60 P.A. steers, £6 ss; ace. R. S. Pilmer. Tinui, 19 P.A. steers, £5 16s; ace. T. Wyeth, Mount Bruce, 9 P.A. steers, £ 5 2s. Yearling heifers: Ace. R. F. R. Beetham, 28 Herefords, £3 16s; ace. O. H. Beetham, 15 Herefords, £3 15s; ace. Peter Andrew, 12 Herefords, £4 2s. Two-year and three-year-heifers: Ace. Mrs. E. A. Russell, Rawhiti, 25 3-year P.A. heifers, £7 12s; 15 3-year P.A. heifers, £7 12s 6d; ace. R. S. Cameron, 10 two-year P.A. heifers, £6 10s; ace. R. S. Pilmer, 18 two and three-year P.A. heifers, £6 7s 6d: Three-year steers: Ace. R. H. Moor, Carrington, 30 P.A. steers, £8 10s. Empty cows. Ace. Lady Ferguson, 41 P.A. cows, £5 16s; ace. R. S. Pilmer 9 P.A. cows, £5 12s. Four-year bullocks: Ace. J. H. Cameron, £9 to £10. aFt cows: £5> 15s, £6 10s, £6 12s 6d, £7, to £7 11s. I Fat heifers: £6 18s to £7 14s. Fat bullocks: £9 10s to £11 4s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., made a clearance at the following rates:—Ace. N. McKay and Sons, 3 and 4-y«ar P.A. and P.A.-cross bullocks, £9 2s; ace. W. H. Dickens, forward bullocks, £9 Is; yearling steers, £4 11s to £5 2s; ace. Abbotsford, yearling P.A. steers, £6 2s; ace. S.-,Schofleld, 2-year steers, £5 15s; ace. Thos. Wyeth, speyed heifers, £6; ace. other venders, small yearling P.A. heifers, £2 12s; yearling steers, £4 to £5 3s; forward cows, £5 10s; store cows, £2 to £4.