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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 November 1926, Page 10

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DAIRY PRODUCE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., has received the following cablegiiain from its London house, under date ,10th inst. : Butter.- —New Zealand choicest, .stoieel 140 sto 1425; market quiet. “Controlled,'’ 148 s to 150 s per cwt; very little sold. ~ Cheese.—White, “controlled, 80s to 87; coloured, 85s- to SSs; market steady. OPOSSUM SKINS. Messrs Dalgety an dCo., Ltd., quote current prices ior opossum .skins as foll° Binds. 10s 9d to 11s -Id; first greys, 10- ;kl to 12s 3d; greys 8s to 8s Bd} first blacks, Bs'6d to 9s 3d; blacks, 6s lOd to 7s 3d; first browns, / s *>d ; Browns, 5s Id to 6s Gd ; slates. 6s; kittens. 2s Gd to 3s 3d; damaged Is 6d to 4s Gd. LOCAL MARKET REPORT’ The Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation Society reports as follows: At Haivera oil Tliursduy we had an exceptionally heavy yarding of both fat and store cattle; there was also a large snt-rv of pigs and a tew dairy cattle and sheep. There was a large attendance of buyers from all parts of the district and bidding was brisk throughout. 'The market still shows a strong demand for good store cattle, but fat stock have a tendency to fall off slightly. The following is a range of prices. Heavy fat cows £9 to £l4 2s thL light fat cows and heifers £7 to £8 15s. fat bullocks £ll to £l2 10s, fat heifers T'S good paddock cows £5 to £6 ss, good store cows £4 5s to £5. boners £2 to £3 12s 6d, can tiers 15s to 27s od, three-year-old empty Hereford and P.A. heifers £4 (is 6d, two-year-old steers £4 10s three and four-year-old bullocks £6 to fir 7s 6d, yearling Jersey heifers £3 6s to £3 15s, sound Jersey bulls £7 to £ll, best dairy heifers (close to profit and calved) £7 5s to £8 10s, others £4 10s to £7. Sheep.—M.S. woolly hoggets 22s to 26s lOd, store ewe hoggets 18s, .shorn forward ewes 17s to IS*. Pigs.—Large stores £2 t<> £2 6s, medium do 28s to 37s Gd. wcaneivs 15s to 265. At Waveriey on Friday we submitted a good yarding of all classes of fat and store cattle to a good attendance of buyers. Bidding was good throughout and-a good sale resulted. Fat cows £7 to £7 ids. fat heifers £6 iss to £7. paddock cows £5 to £6 6s. store cows £3 10s to £4 15s, boners £2 to £3 ss, canners £1 to 355, store three and four-year-old bullocks £6 2s Gd, two-year-old steers. £4 15s, Jersey yearling heifers £2 os. to £3 10s, P.A. bulls £6 6s, forward woolly ewes 20s Id, do wethers 24s 6d, weaner pigs 22s Qd to 255.