NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO.'S REPORT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO.'S REPORT.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Stratford branch, report as follows :— On Monday, November 10, we held our supplementary bull fair in our Stratford yards. There was a "fair attendance, and a good entry of 62 bulls, a fair proportion not showing much quality. Good animals elicited fair competition, more particularly Jerseys, and 18 were sold, the balance being passed in as owners' reserves were higher than purchasers' ideas of value.1 Pedigree Jerseys, B|gns to 17gns; ordinary bulls, 55s to 1355; one pedigree Jersey was passed in at 30gns. On Tuesday "we held our usual heifer sale. The yarding was* small, but there was a fair demand ior trood lines at 97s 6d to WOs; cows in milk, up to £7 ss. On Wednesday. 12th inst>, we held our Kohuzatahi sale, when there was a good attendance of farmers and a fair yarding of 103 head of cattle, of which 315 changed- ownership at the hammer and afterwards. The following prices were made : Yearling i steers, small, 50s; fair quality, up to •63*: good average, up to Cos; 20-months to 2-year steers, from 72s 6d to 80s; empty heifers, none showing quality, 2 years and over, 71s; other lines passed in at 74s 6d; grown steers, 2 years, 89s to 955; 3-year "steers, up to £6 10s.