COMMERCIAL.

Northern Advocate, 3 September 1919, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

DALGETY AND COMPANY.

NORTHERN STOCK SALES

Messrs Dalgety and Company report having held the following stock sales during last week:—

Pakotai, Saturday 23rd.—There was a fair yaiding, but cattle did not forward as advertised, which was rather disappointing , to buyers who had come some distance. We quo, L e as follows: 3-year steers, £9 10/ to £10 5/; 2 and 2£-year steers, £8 10/ to £9; 2 i to 3-year heifers, good quality, £8 to £8 10/.

Tangiteroria, Monday 25th.— Good yarding but with the exception of a few pens the condition was not good, no grown cattle offering. Quote as follows: 2 to 25-year steers, £7 10/ to £8; 18-months to 2-year steers, £5 10/ to £6 10/; calvee, £1 to £2 10/; empty cows, £6 10/ to £9, according to condition; dairy cows (nothing special offering), £7 to £9 10/. Maungakaramea, Tuesday 26th.— Small yarding. Very few changed hands. Whangarei, Thursday 28th.—Good yarding, fair competition for alii classes of good quality. 3ji to 4-year steers, £11 15/ to £13 1/; 21 to 3year steers, £7 10/ to £8 18/; yearlings to 18-month steers, £2 5/ to £4 11/; calves, 15/ to 34/. Empty cows were in good demand, fair number offering, the prices ranging from £5 15/ to £8. Big yarding of dairy cattle, but owing to the scarcity of feed prices were in favour of buy sirs. Quote as follow?: Good cows, in fir condition, £10 10/ J o £13 5/; second quality, £7 to £9 5/; good heifers, up to £10 7/6; backward and low-condi-tioned, dull of sale. Sheep: Few pens yarded. Fat wethers, record prices were obtained, making up to £2 7/; fat ewes, £1 12/; store wethers, £1 12/; woolly hoggets, £1 1/.

Kamo, Friday, 29th. —Fair yarding, prices on a par with Whangaro!..

During the week we held two clearing sales, one on account of the Northern Transport Company, at Kaikohe. Bidding was keen throughout, everything being disposed of at satisfactory prices, hacks and harness horses making from £10 to £26. Gig and buggies were keenly sought after, and with the exception of two were all dispose.d of, prices from £15 to £36. Several lots of harness sold well. The other sale, on account of A. McCardle, Titoki, was well attended. The dairy stock was showing the effects of a bad season. Prices were as follows:—Dairy cows, £10 to £14 10/; heifers, £8 to £11; 18----month heifers, £5; draught horses, up to £36. All sundries sold at satisfactory prices. At the conclusion of the meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on Thursday, Mrs •Beck said that she wished to air complaints that had been made to her a? to the way in which certain hospital food was cooked and vegetables washed. It had been reported to her that slugs had been found in the cabbages <m patients' plates, and the meat was so hard that there were times when it could not be eaten. Mr J. W. iMcEwan (chairman of the Hospital Committee) said he would not refer the. matter to the committee, but would at once see the house steward about the matter, and if he could get no satisfaction he would see what could be done in another way. Mr F. T. Moore said that if the hospital would pay the price it could get as good meat as anyone else. Mrs Aitken said that was not the cause of the trouble. The meat was all right —it was the way it was cooked.