COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 141, 31 May 1911, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

WAIPUKURAU SALE. The fortnightly sale of live stock was held, yesterday at Waipukurau saleyards, when there was a very large yarding of cattie and sheep, every pen in the yard being taken up. There was a large attendance of buyers, both local and from a distance. Fat cattle consisted of several pens of well-finished bullocks and cows, which met with, fairly good competition. The balance of the pens was of secondrate quality. Store cattle consisted of a few pens of 3 and 4-yr-old bullocks of good quality, but did not get the attention they deserved. Two and a-half year steers and weaners filled the balance of the pens, and sold at fairly good prices, though not up to last sale’s quotations. Fat sheep consisted mostly of good ewes and a few pens of wethers, which met with only a fair enquiry, several pens being passed in. Store sheep consisted of wethers, hoggets, ewes in lamb, and empty ewes, and met rather a dragging sale all through. However, by the end of the day a good clearance was effected.

Williams and Kettle, Ltd., report :—Cattle : 35 fat cows from £6/1, - to £7/1/-, 28 fat bullocks from £B/1/- to £B/18/-, 2 fat bullocks £B/8/-, 8 3-yr steers £5/17/-, 14 IA-yr steers £3/4/-, 15 yearling steers £l/17/6, 12 fat heifers from £4/17/- to £6/18/-, 21 fat cows from £5/2/- to £5/17/-. Sheep : Sixty fat

wethers 13/5, 34 fat ewes 11/-, 214 mixed hoggets 7/4, 180 hoggets 5/9, 157 hoggets 6/2, 133 wethers 11/1, 83 empty ewes 7/7, 50 forward ewes 9/4, 51 forward wethers 12/1, 109 ewes 4/9, 130 empty ewes 6/2.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co,, Ltd., report:— Cattle : 24 fat bullocks from £7/15/to £9/5/6, 11 forward bullocks £6 6/6, 7 2-yr steers £4/5/-, 2 li-yr steers £3/14.,-, 9 weaner heifers £2/5. Sheep : 591 shorn hoggets from 5/10 to 9/3, 91 cull 2-th ewes 7 11, 128 cull ewes 2/9.

The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Coop. Assn, Ltd. report:—Cattle : 76 weaners (mixed sexes) £2/8/6, 17 3-yr steers £4/16/6, 16 18-month steers £3/17/6, 8 cows in calf £4/5/-, 5 fat cows £4/11/-. Sheep: 210 fat ewes from 9/- to 11/4, 49 2-th ewes 7 10, 26 2-th wethers 8/3, 240 empty eweij 5,7, 61 cull lambs 5/3. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report: Cattle : 53 2-yr Polled Angus steers £l5. 16 weaner steers £l/17/6, 21 at IS,-. 7 steers £2/15/-, 39 2|-yr. steers £3/10 -. Sheep: 217 fat ewes fiom 10 11 to 12/-. 138 fat and forward wethers 13 -, 363 shorn lambs 6 1, 360 2-th ewes 9/2, 250 lambs 7 290 ewe in lamb 7/-, 400 lambs 7 2, 38 wethers 7 3, 86 empty ewes 6/-. 1028 lambs from 3/7 to 8/-.

Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., report : Four weaner steers £2/3/6, 23 2-yr steers £3/18.-, 9 cows £.3, 19 cows anr calves £1 ’7/6, springing heifers £4/2/6 to £6/1/-. Sheep: 31 fat ewes 12/-, 66 fat ewes 11'8, 44 at 10/-, 180 cull ewes at 3/2, 130 at 4/6.