COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 316, 30 November 1910, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON WOOL SALES. [by telegraph.—press association-.] Wellington, Monday. The second series of the wool sales in Wellington opened this morning when there was a large attendance of buyers. The catalogue contained 8300 bales. A feature of the opening sales was the strong competition, for the higher classes of wool, which in some cases were a farthing to a halfpenny better than at the previous sales at the beginning of this month. Yorkshire made strong competition for the medium qualities, which were on about a par with the previous sale. Continental wools were in keen demand, also low grade wools suitable for rugs and blankets. Speculators competed freely at the opening, but prices'were beyond them.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report: On 23rd November we held our usual Matamata stock sale, yarding 955 cattle, 551 sheep, and 35 pigs. There was a very large attendance, plenty of competition, and good prices obtained throughout the sale. Strong 2 tooth ewes and wethers 14s, shorn forward ewes lis 3d, cull hoggets 9s 3d. fat ewes in wool, 14s 3d, aged ewes in wool with lambs 15s, fat and forward cows £4 15s to £5 16gs, fat steers £7 15s to £B, fresh 34 year steers £5 15s to £6 lis, store 3 year steers £o to £5 10s, 2 year steers £3 7s Cd to £3 15s, yearling steers £2 12s 6d to £3 3s, 2 year dairy heifers £4 os to £4 17s, choice dairy heifers 15 months old £3 15s to £4 4s, ordinary yearling heifers £2 10s to £3, store cows £3 to £3 10s, bulls £3 to £6 6s, dairycows and heifers £5 to £7 10s. At Pio Pio on 33rd November, we yarded 270 head of cattle. There was a large attendance, and practically all sold at prices fully up to those ruling ■" in Waikato. We quote:— 2h year steers £4 14s to £5 Is, 15 to 18 months steers £3 6s to £3 10s, yearlings £2 8s to £2 Is, empty 18 months heifers £8 15s to £4 4s, yearlings £3, springing heifers £4 5s to £5 10s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— We had a good yarding of cattle at Pirongia on November 23rd. There was good competition throughout, and only one pen remained unsold. We quote: 18 . months to 2 year steers £3 15s to £4, 16 months steers £3 _to £3 6s, yearling steers £2 8s to £2 Ids, 18 months dairy heifers, choice £4 ss, empty cows in fresh condition £3 to £3 15s, fat cows £4 15s to £5 2s, weaner pigs 15s. oi At Pio Pio on the same date_3 to og year steres made £5 2s 6d to £5 14s, 2 to 2i year steers £3 18s to £4 ss, 15 months steers £2 14s to £3, heifers. £2 14s, 2 year heifers £4. At Hamilton on 24th November, we yarded 400 head of fat and store cattle, and 500 sheep. Fat cows made £4 17s 6d to £6 ss, 15 months steers £3 2s, yearling heifers £2 15s, choice 16 months heifers £4 Is, others £3.3s to *3 4", 2 vear heifers £4 Is to £4 3s ~ springing heifers £7 to £8 2s Gd, dairy cows £5 10s to £8 2s 6d, 2 year bulls £3 17s to £4 12s 6d. The sheep all sold under keen competition. Fat ewes shorn 14s 2d to 17s Sd, 2 tootn wether 3 14s, woolly ewes and lambs 18s 6d, lambs lis to 12s 3d, weaner pigs 8s to 14s, slips 16s to 18s, porkers 23s 6d.

Messrs Da'.gety and' Co. Ltd., report:— We held our usual stock sale at ie Uku on 23rd November, when a full yarding of cattle came forward consisting mostly of yearlings and 15 months steers, all of which sold readily under the hammer, with the exception of two pens, the owner of which had too bie a reserve on. The sale all through was brisk and we feel sure as time goes on the sales will very much improve. We quote as follows:—2 year steers £4 12s, yearling steers £2 18« 6d to £3 2s, yearling heifers £2 12a, empty heife'rs £3 8s to £3 15s, fat' cows £4 lis. milch cows £6 to £7 ss, hacks £lO. On Saturday, November 26th, we held our usual monthly sale in Te Awamutu yards, when a full yarding of cattle came forward, also fat sheep and pigs. Most of the cattle sold well under the hammer, competition for pigs was not so keen, while fat sheep, which were not of very good quality, were passed in without competition. Considering that the second day of the Auckland Show was held on the same dav as this sale, the attendance and yarding was both very good. We quote as under:—Forward heifers £3 19s to £4 2s, forward cows £4 12s 6d, empty 2 year heifers £4 4s, IS months empty heifers £3 10s, 18 month steers £Z 5s to £3 10s. mixed yearlings £2 Bs, yearling bulls £4 4s to £5 us, porkers 33s to 345, weaner pigs 13s to 13s 6d. ~„„„„„