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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 291, 13 November 1912, Page 2

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LIVE STOCK SALES. i Dalgety mid Co.-vptmy, Ltd., report , having held t!>--ir weekly sale at \V:h- . ptikur.-m yesterday, and quote the fol- . le.wing prices 3-yea.r steers £(’> - 1.3 6, 91) 3-yenr steers Lti' 12/-, 7-s - 2-ye;>r steers Co. 5 -, (>l5 2-vcar steers t Ct-18 3! yitoilmg steers £ll G, 19 ■ P.A. yearling steers £1 7.-, 16 2-ytoir - steers £-1 1 23 2-yoar steers £ 1 12 (>. 8 3-vea.r steers Co 103 P.A. steers . £512 -, bnHock.s £7/12 (j, 3S > yearling heifers C 3 17-6, 17 vcarling . P.A. heifers £3 17. G. ,t heifer £5 I'd -. springing heifer To/Tt’/-, sound heifei . £5 -.5 sound lieiL-r -Co. iO -. cow-. ; at'd 3 calves £5.4 12.9 v,ctbr.- hoggets 19 '-, 74 sto-e ewes II 'pl. Williams and Keltic, Lid., repoH. the . following sales at Wmj::iktirau yest-w . day:—B fat cows a-:d iieif'?: ; £8 15 -, i 8 at £B's S at £7.T3-'6, huilto-k .£:> . 2,6, 6 heifers £ti. I<> y<Ar.fugs C2 16 !>. i Tlie Now Zf'filaiH: L<:;i» and Mcrrap.- . tiba Agt-iiey- Co., Ltd., l i-'g -t on Ua-li sate at V. aii-iiki:■yesterday as !-<v- . lows:---451 4-year-<dd lad'acl;.; £B, 15 a; iP .'IG'-, 111 3 and -i-ve.if-oid Hi'kcl:s £6 14 43 :?-year-o’d hullccks £5 18 <5, , 16 3-year-old bullocks £4-'l9.'- to £5 . It)'-. PUNK OF Ais PR'.I AM?. , C'..U Jt.'Dll l ti-x,U2 Z*’-I?.OJr, p . | a.”ia held in London onriv in October, . | said that Australia cor.iim-.cd in c state J of prosperity, although daring the Int- . |tc-r part cf 1911 and the e.ir’- part of ]1912 there had beer- so miivh dry v.caj th tn- that there was considerable anxiety I with regard to the flo.--k<-. Fortiinsti'!y j about the end of May afid the beginning of 3u::e tain had come and prevented what might have been, and was almost expected to be, a considerable disaster. They had toceived a cable w the effee/ that at the present time pro-sprr-i,-, of )wth pastoral and agricultural interests wore very good. That means that they would probably have- a very big wheat c.-op in ?,!■<■ .ralia. It was j interesting in that t-<: iiiv- etinn to rote [that the statistics, of the British Board iof Ag> iciillr;"a showed that daring the past year Die whc export:; of the I Empire had been more than sufficient to j supply die needs of the I'liiti d King- | do:n. He believed t:<;st that was the I fit- l time that had happened, and. <>.' I course. Australasia was lakii'g an ini - Iport.int part m the >■ apply. Other eviI donee of the prosperity of Australia I was t’ue deposits ii> ih ; ’ biraks. which at | the end cf -Juno amoiintod to £175,000,j i/iOT. shov. iiig r.:i in--.-ea■ during tlie [past four years of ahoui £3(>,l)0l).0(H), [while ether signs we:-:' aft’ord-d hy the [ lia::res of exports and imports. Durinjj, the six -months ended June the exports frot:) the Coinr.innv. 1-tlth r.::n:;iii Ird to 31 niiJlions, and the imports to 37 millions. The ref-rigerr.t'.-d industry was flcuri.shing, red w 'th rega'.d to wool the position was ! atisiactrwy. T’fi.-ir bai-nnte-sheet reflected the general prosperity.