COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 52, 13 February 1918, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

WAIPUKURAU STOCK SALE. At the Wajpukurau saleyaids yesterday a large yarding of all classes of stock was offered to a fair attendance. The bidding throughout was very brisk, and the majority of the yarding offered sold at prices satisfactory to ail parties. Good f. and f. bullocks realised £l7 2/6, good 18-month steers £l2, good 18-month heifers £ll. Sheep: Fat and forward wethers (a good line) 33 '3, early shorn 2-tooth wethers 27 o-year-old ewes 24/-, fat and forward ewes with doubtful mouths up to 20/-. The various brokers report as fol» lows:—

Murray, Roberts, Ltd. —8 fat bullocks £l5 11/-, 24 fat ewes 28/6, 140 4-tooth ewes 28/9, 61 4 and 5-year ewes 24.9, 6 wethers 31/-, 5 2-shear Romney rams 61gns., 10 Romney rams I.,‘gn.s., 10 Lincoln rams lijgns., 5 2-shear Komney rams 6Jgns., 5 do 7gns., 2 2-shear Lincoln rams sgns., 9 Romney rams IJgns. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co., Ltd. —8 fat wethers 33/-, 376 2-tooth ewes 23/9, 291 2-tooth wethers 25/-, 138 mixed age ewes 22. -, 22 1-year-old bullocks 15gns. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.—l fat cow £l2 1-5/-, 2 S.D. lambs 5/-, 5 Romney rams 5 do sgns., 18 20-month steers £8 10/-, 28 weaner heifers £4 11,Williams and Kettle, Ltd;—ll steers £lO 2'6, 2 steers £l, 6 heifers £6 10/-, 1 cow' £2, 3 heifers' £4 15/-, 2 heifers £1 10/-, 13 empty heifers £7 8/-, 6 18inonth steers £9 10/-, 38 forward bullocks £l7 2/6, 10 heifers in calf £l3, 19 weaner steers £4 8/-, 12 bullocks £l6 2/6, 23 weaner heifers £3 16/-, 39 weaner steers £5 3/6, 22 18-month steers £9, 22 yearlings £6 7/6, 15 weaner heifers £4 lb -. 31b lands i) 10, 172 f. owes 19/10, 6-5 lambs 5/1, <8 wethers 26/-, 1 S.D. rani 2jgns., 1 4shcar S.D. ram llgns., 2 2-sheai Roiuney rams BJgns., 9 Romney rams 2gns>., 34 fat ewes 27/-, 51 lambs 5/-. 98 lambs 11/7, 2 2-shear Romney lams 9Jgns , 8 4-year-old do 2/gns. De Pelichet, McLeod and Co.—s fat cows £l3 10/-, 18 cous with calves at foot £l3 16/-, 11 3-year-old bullocks £l4 7/6, 14 18-months steers £lO J 2.-6, 33 18-monihs steers £l2 15 18months heifers £ll 6 -. 30 at £ll, ol fat ewes 29/1, 66 at 27,5, 189 _fat wethers 34/-, 716 2-tooth uetheis 2.,--, 460 at 33.3, 459 at 32 -. 336 4 and 5year old ewes 2-1/-, 36 2 and 4-tooth ewes 32/6, 91 2-tooth wethers 32'-, o shearling Romnev rams £5 o'-, 4 at £5 s'-, 4 at £3 13 '6, 10 at £3 3,-. 2 at £2 2/-, 15 aged rams £T 1 -. 5 do £T ' Hawke’s Bay Farmers. —1 3-year heifer £8 15.'-, 2 yearlings £-5, 1 weaner £l, 8 3-year steers £lO 15 -, 3 3-vear-old steers £lO 5/-. 22 mixed sex weaners £3 3/6. 20 do £3 14--, 12 do £3 4'6. 17 do £4 13/-. 8 do £5 110 15-months to 2-year steers £l2 10/-, 6 fat ewes 24 0, 31 at 24. -, 290 mixed sex lambs 11/-. 211 4-tooth wethers 33/4, 222 mixed sex 2-tooths 28/3, 30 at 21'6. 107 2-tooth wethers 27/11, 80 mixed sex lambs 9. -, 40 culled 2-ths 12 '-, 14-1 mixed sex lambs 6 'l, 43 ewes and lambs 2'9, 56 4-tooth wethers 28/6. 12 forward ewes 22 -. 4 2-shear Southdown rams £2 12 2 2-shear Lincoln rams £3 3