STOCK SALES

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3287, 5 March 1926, Page 2

STOCK SALES

\ New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received ’ the following cablegram from their , London House under date 3rd March: 1 —Butter: Choicest 1725, 1745; market . dull with downward tendency. Aus--3 tralian 1665, Danish 200 s. Cheese; 995, 102 s; market quiet. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having a good entry of | stock at their Huntervllle sale or . Tuesday, the 2nd Instant . Bidding . was again dull, especially for good rape lambs, failing mouth ewes also ’ being very hard to quit. Quotations: Small b.f. lambs, 8s lOd to 10s Gd; mixed sex lambs to 13s 4d; fair ewe lambs, 12s 3d to 14s; wether lambs, 10s to 14s; romney rams, 1J ,to If. guineas. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having received the following cmablcgram from their London house under date of the 2nd instant:—Wool sales open 9th March. The following are the available quantities of wool to bo offered: 44.000 New Zealand, 2000 Cape, 19,000 South American, 65,500 Australian, 40,000 carried forward. Our selling dates—llth, 22nd, and 25th March. Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Ltd., Palmerston North, report having a very good entry of both sheep and caittte at their Taihape sale on Wednesday, , March 3. There was fair competition throughout, the day and the bulk . of th e yarding changed hands. Quota- ; lions.—Cull lambs: 6s to Ss; small 1 lambs 9s 3d; wether lambs 12s 9d: m.a. ewes 10s, 10s Gd, 11s 6d to 15s Id; Romney rams 2,2 J, to 35gns; 18-months P.A. steers £4; 18-months Hereford steers £3 5s to £3 10s; 25year Hereford crossbred steers £6 2s; 3-year P.A. steers £6 19s Gd to £7; 1 cows and calves £2 10s; fat cows £4.