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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 November 1924, Page 8

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jMABKET REPORT. The Farmers’ Co-op. Organisation Society report: AVaverley sale, Friday/ 28th. inst.: A very good yarding of mixed cattle came forward, some extra heavy fat cows being yarded and meeting* keen competition. Prices for heavy-weight cows, £6 18s, £7 15s; good cows, £5 15s, £6 10s; young empty cows, £3; store and forward conditioned cows, £2 los, £3 14s; 4-year steers, £6 16s; Jersey cross empty heifers, £4; crossbred ditto, £3 12s 6d; small line woolly ewes (27) and lambs (39)* made £3 *3s. On account of Air F. Pearce a good line of shorn 2-tootli wethers made 29s Id.

- On Friday, the 28th, we conducted a, sale on the Oeo Road, Auroa, on account of Air J. D. Borrie. There was a good attendance of buyers, and competition was keen throughout. The cows were a good lot, being practically all fawn Jerseys, and made from £8 to £ls ss, the whole herd averaging £ll 10s. There were not many implements, and a 9-coulter Empire Jr. drill brought £3l, set of tripod harrows £7, dray £ls, and an aged gelding £3l. LONDON WOOL SALES. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house under date of the 2oth inst (delayed in transmission): — Wool sales opened; attendance of buyers is large; competition animated; selection principally merino wools and slipe and scoured crossbred; Continental and English buyers are buying freely. As compared with last sale’s closing rates, merino wools are par to 14d ..higher; greasy crossbred, fine quality, 24d to 3d higher, few offered; greasy crossbred, medium and coarse, 3d to 44d higher; slipe crossbreds, 2£d to 4d higher. LONDON TALLOW MARKET. The Bank of New Zealand, produce department, has received the following advice from its London office, under date November 26: Tallow: The demand is rather quiet and the market is 6d per cwt. lower. Alessrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house under date of the 26th instant: Seven hundred and sixty casks of tallow offered; 190 sold. There is a poor demand for tallow at unchanged prices.