COMMERCIAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 10

COMMERCIAL.

LOCAL STOCK MARKETS

The Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation Society reports as under: — At our Kakaramea. yards on Monday we held a clearing sale of daily cows on account of Mr A. Hurley, of W henna - kura. In all 55 cows, mostly Shorthorn and Holstein cross, were ottered, and these all sold at quite good prices, the highest being £lO 10s. On Tuesday, at our usual Okaiawa safe, we carded a fair number of works cattle, all of which sold at recent rates. Fat cows £5 15s, boners £2 to £3 ss, canners £1 to £1 10s, Jersey yearling heifers £2 10s, weaner pigs 17s 6d, medium stores 31s. At Stewart Hoad, Elfcham, on Tuesday, on account of Mr Maurice Fitzgerald, we submitted to' a good attendance of buyers some 80 odd Holstein and Shorthorn cross dairy cows, most of which were in fair condition and on the drop. The total offering we sold at the very good average of £9 10s. On Wednesday, at Oeo, on account of Mr Alan Good, we had a very successful clearing sale of soing 75 Jersey heifers. There was a fair attendance of buyers, and the cattle, which, were mostly in condition and fairly close up, met with a ready sale. Whilst the total offering averaged £8 12s 6d, prices ranged from £8 10s to £l2 10s for best heifers and £C to £8 5s for others. On account of the vendors we sold small store pigs 255, porkers' £3, Jersey cross yearling heifers £2 10s, others 30s. At our Hawera sale on Thursday, we held a. fair yarding of store cattle and an exceptionally heavy offering in the dairy pens. There was a large attendance of buyers and the former sold at lat© rates and the latter .soldi at good prices, there being a keen demand for keife-rs and cows irrespective, of colours just coming into profit. Fat cows £5 15s to £7 6s, light fat heifers £4 5s to £4 17s. forward cows £5 to. £5 12s Gel, boners £2 to £4 os, canners 15s to 255, Jersey yearling heifers £2 18s. cull, hoggets 10s 3d to lie, medium hoggets - 14s, small store pigs 20s to 235.

In the dairy pens we sold 112 head of cows and heifers, a® follows: On account of Mr O. J. Dunlop, Jersey heifers dose- to profit from £8 to £lO ss; on account Brown Bros., of Ttukumoana, 35 Jersey cross heifers dose to profit, from £8 to £lO 10s, others £6 to £7 15s ; account S. Anstis, Heifers £8 to £9 10s; account Thomas Strothers, springing daily covvs £6 10s to £9 10s; account B. S. Lysaght, Jersey heifers £7 to £9 15s; account, J. T. Barkla, springing heifers £7 to £10; account Hams Bros., springing cows £7 10s> to £8; account H. P. Wills, heifers close up £7 10s; account T. A. Winks, heifers from £9 to £l3.

At Waver ley sale on Friday wle had a good yarding of sheep, store and dairy catt’e. There was a. good attendance of buyers, and a good sale resulted. Empty ewes, 17s 6d, best M.S. hoggets 19s to 19s 7d, others 17s 6d, medium B.F. hoggets 13s 7d to 15s 4d, fat cows £6 to £6 ss, forward cows £4 to £4 10s, store bullocks £8 12s 6d, boners £1 17s 6d to £3 Is, best Jersey heifers, close to profit, on account Campbell Bros., £7 .to £9;-on account E'mslie Bros;, £7 5s to £7 15s; on account of other clients, heifers from £6 to £7 10s, dairy cows £6 to £6 15s. On account of Mr N. Thomason we sold several horses and a. quantity of harness and sundries a.t good prices. We quote: Light draught gelding £23 and £3B, milk carter £2O 10s, aged gelding £9 10s.