COMMERCIAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 11

COMMERCIAL

STORTFORD LODGE STOCK SALE. BROKERS’ REPORTS. The Hawke’s Bay Stock Brokers’ Association report holding their weekly sale at the Stortford Lodge Saleyards yesterday, when they offered for sale a medium yarding of cattle and a small yarding of sheep. _ A shorter market showed a firming tendency. There was a good attendance of buyers. The prices ranged as under:—Fat bullocks, £l4 to £l5 16/-; fat cows (light), £7; to £l2 7/6 (heavy); prime heifers, £ll to £l2 15/-; 2 and 4-ycar bulls, £9 14/6 to £ll 12/-; pearling steers to £5 16/-; empty cows, to £4 7/6; cow and calf, £6 8/6; dairy cow, £7 7/6; bullocks, to £ll 11/-; shorn fat wethers, 26/3; shorn ewes, 17/7 (light) 24/6 (prime); woolly fat ewes to 26/-; fat lambs, 20/6 to 25/7; woolly fat hoggets to 27/-; 4 and 6-th. wethers, 22/9; m.s. woolly hoggets, 21/1. The various brokers report sales as under:—

De Pelichet, McLeod & Co., Ltd.— 330 shorn 2-th wethers, 22/9; 357 shorn f. and f. wethers, 24/10; 1 6-th ewe and lamb, 41/-; 1 dairy heifer in profit, £3 5/-. Hoadley, Son and Stewart, Ltd.—2 fat heifers, £l2 15/-'; 3 fat. cows, £l2 13/-; 5 do., £l2 7/6; 2 fat cows (light), £7 2/6; 2 do., £6 5/-; 39 P.A. steers, £lO 16/-; 44 Hereford steers, ££lo 12/-; 20 P.A. steers, £ll 12/-; 15 Herefords, £ll 5/-; 9 Hereford steers, £ll 1/-; 11 Shorthorn steers, £10; 1 Jersey bull, Bgns.; 1 do., Tgns.; 11 fat ewes, 21/0; 14 do., 23/-; 7 do., 20/8; 6 hoggets, 27/-. Murray, Roberts & Co., Ltd.—7 fat Hereford bullocks, £l4; 2 do., £l4 12/-; 3 fat P.A. heifers, £lO 5/-; 1 fat Hereford heifer, £l2 5/-; 1 fat P.A. cow, £10; 4 fat P.A. heifers, £lO 10/-; 1 do., £l2 15/-; 3 fat P.A. heifers, £ll 3/-; 1 do. Hereford heifer, £ll 15/-; 27 yearling steers (P.A. and H.), £5 16/-; 23 do. heifers, £4 15/-; 1 P.A. bull, £ll 11/-; 1 fat ewe, 20/10, 2 fat lambs, 25/7. Dalgety & Co.—2 fat bullocks, £l6; 1 at £l5 10/-; 1 at £10; 1 fat heifer, £5; 1 yearling bull, £4 10/-; 1 fat ewe, 22/-; 13 fat ewes, 19/-. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.—l fat P.A. bullock, £l5; 29 fat ewes, 17/1; 20 do., 20/6; 6 fat lambs, 22/-; 4 fat woolly ewes, 26/-; 584 4 and 6-th. wethers, 30/4; 190 do., 28/2; 96 do., 25/1; 23 wether hoggets, 21/-. Williams and Kettle, Ltd.—l fat cow, £l2 2/6; 2 forward cows, £7; 3 fat cows, £lO 10/-; 1 heifer, £3 7/6; 3 fat tows, £10; 3 cows and calves, £6 8/6; 1 fat cow, £lO 1/-; 1 fat lamb, 20/6; 1 forward, cow, £4 7/6, 1 cow in milk, £5 3/-. 11.8. Farmers’ Co-operative Association Ltd.—7 fat owes, 22/6; 11 do., JU/-; 16 do., 23/-; 17 do., 24/6; 12 do.,

22/-; 18 do., 21/-; 11 do., 19/9; 11 do., 19/10; 1 do., 9/9; 7 fat wethers, 26/3; 5 do., 26/-; 1 do., 22/-; 1 do., 26/3; 46 ewes and lambs, 27/-; 9 steers, £9 14/6; 6 do., £7 2/-; 1 vealer, 32/-; 3 do., 37/6; 5 yearling Jersey heifers, £5 15/-; 1 dairy cow, £7 17/6; 1 do., £5 10/-; 1 Jersey bull, £lO.