WAIPUKURAU SALE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 237, 19 September 1934, Page 5

WAIPUKURAU SALE

The Brokers’ Reports

The Associated' Auctioneers report that at the Waipukurau sale yesterday, fat cattle met a keen enquiry from outside interests, while there was an improved demand' for store cattle lines from graziers. Fat sheep rates were very much on a par with last week so far as prime lines were concerned. Individual brokers report the following sales:— Williams and Kettle, Ltd. 24 Hereford cows £3 11/-, 5 at £4 15/-, 2 at 10/-, 5 at £4 13/-, 9 at £4 5/-, 24 Shorthorn cows £3 8/-, 8 at £4 2/-, 9 at £4 3/6, 3 at £4 6/-, 5 P.A. cows £2 18/-, 10 at £4 9/-, 3 at £4 7/-, 4 Shorthorn heifers £4 11/-, 8 P.A. heifers £4 11/-, 3 cows and calves £3 5/11, 31 3-yr. P.A. steers £5 6/-, 8 at £4, 11 at £4 15/-, 13 at £5 6/-, 5 at £3 16/-, 1 steer £1 7/6, 1 fat bullock £9, 1 at £5 17/6, I stag £3 5/-, 7 cows 33/-, 1 Jersey heifer £1 7/”, 1 springing heifer £4 7/6, 5 P.A. steers £4 15/-, 1 Shorthorn steer £3, 10 P.A. cows £2 10/-, 1 Shorthorn cow £2 6/-, 1 steer £2 12/-, 1 second calver £2 17/6, 1 fat cow £2 10/-, 55 fat ewes 25/1, 19 at 22/-.

Hawke’s Bay Farmers. —23 fat ewes 17/10, 25 at 17/-, 10 at 22/6, 10 at 24/10, 28 maiden ewes and wethers 25/9, 48 fat hoggets 21/6, 4 at 18/1, 34 ewe hoggets 23/3, 1 wether hogget 19/-, 3 fat wethers 22/-, 1 fat P.A. cow £6 9/-, 1 fat heifer £4 15/-, 2 Jersey cows in profit 20/-, 3 at £1 12/6, 1 spinging Jersey cow £2 10/-, 1 at £2 2/6, 1 at £1 2/6, 6 pigs 18/-, 1 at. 28/-, 1 sow 5/-. De Pelichet, McLeod and Co., Ltd 1 . — 6 P.A. cows (P.A. bull) £4 6/-, 8 at £2 13/-, 3 Hereford cows (P.A. bull) £3 8/6, 6 2-yr. P.A. heifers £2 18/-, 1 Jersey cow £1 5/-, 22 fat ewes 18/9, 96 at 24/-, 1 at 18/-, 15 at 21/-, 24 at 21/1, 14 wethers 29/-, 2 at 20/-, 2 at 33/- 2 weaner pigs 23/3, 1 at 17/-, 6 at 18/-. Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd. —1 fat P.A. bullock £9 17/6, 4 at £9, 7 at £6 5/-, 1 fat Shorthorn bullock £6 15/-, 1 fat Jersey bullock £5 15/-, 3 fat P.A. steers £5 10/-, 1 fat P.A. cow £5 7/6, 1 Jersey cow £1 10/-, 11 P.A. 3-yr. steers £5 2/-, 1 P.A. bullock £5 5/1 1 Jersey bullock £1 13/6, 3 prime ewes 26/-.