PEDIGREE JERSEYS

Northern Advocate, 14 June 1935, Page 10

PEDIGREE JERSEYS

| OFFERING AT TAMAHERE. ! TdP PRICE, 45 GUINEAS. lSpecial to "Northern Advocate ."l HAMILTON, "This Day. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auc- ■ tioneering Co., Ltd., in conjunction with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., conducted a sale of pedigree Jerseys on ’ Wednesday, at Tamahere, on behalf of Mr F. S. Veale. The auctioneers ’ state that the prices realised were the best recorded for pedigree Jer- ” seys in the Waikato for some time. The best price was 45 guineas, paid ”by Mr W. C. Mears, of Walton, for the cow Milady of Tamahere. Mr Mears paid 40 guineas for another cow, and Mr C. Dickinson purchased , Royal Lady of Tamahere for 37 gui--5 neas. The bull that fetched the best price. Summer’s Master of Tamahere, was sold to Messrs Porter and Field, of Kumeu, who paid 27 guineas. The same purchasers bought the cow Lady Ina of Tamahere for 30 guineas. The average price real- - ised for the whole offering was 23 * guineas. ' PIG SALE VALUES AT PUKEKOHE. [.Special to “Northern Advocate ."l AUCKLAND, This Day. There was a small yarding of pigs at Pukekohe yesterday, reports Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd. ' 'Bidding was steady, and values were ' on a par with those ruling at other ‘ centres. No extra heavy baconers > were offered. Medium baconers made I from 56/ to 63/; light, 48/ to 52/; * heavy porkers, 36/ to 42/; light and medium, 28/ to 34/; unfinished and small, 16/ to 26/; stores, 15/ to 20/; slips, 11/ to 13/; weaners, to 11/; sows, due to farrow, 30/ to 52/6. The average price per lb for both bacon- , ers and porkers was from 5d to 54d. T - PRODUCE MARKETS SYDNEY AND ADELAIDE. > SYDNEY, June 13. Following are today’s quotations on the Sydney Produce market: Wheat: Dull. Quotations at country - sidings, 2/64, equal to about 3/14 for bagged and 3/2 for bulk lots, ex trucks, Sydney. Flour, £ll 5/. Bran and pollard, £5. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £l2; Victorian, to £9 10/. Onions, Victorian brown, £ll. Maize, 4/2; Adelaide prices are: —Wheat, grow- . ers’ lots, 3/. Flour, bakers’ lots, £ll 12/6. Bran, £5. Pollard, £5 2/6. Oats, Algerian, to 1/10. Barley, 2/7. MINING NEWS ALEXANDER RETURN. Alexander Mines (Reefton) return for May (April figures being given in parentheses):—Crushed, 287 (340) ■ tons, for 1470 z 16dwts (1950 z /7dwts) melted gold; cyanide treatment, 180 (221) tons sand treated for 40oz 6 dwts (58oz ISdwts) bullion; concentrates, roasted, produced 520 z Bdwts (440 z 7dwts) bullion; estimated value at £7 15/ a fine oz, £1645 (£2075, at £7 10/ a fine oz). In addition, 9.69 (14) tons of concentrates, values at £268 (£300) were saved. Nokamai (Otago).—B3oz ISdwts from paddock of about I.loth< acre. BONDS AND SHARES AUSTRALIAN TRANSACTIONS. SYDNEY, June 13. On the Sydney Stock Exchange today the price variations of investments were fairly evenly distributed between rises and falls. Commonwealth bonds were firm. Morning sales included: Commonwealth 4 per cent bonds, 1944, £lO4 7/6; 1947, £106; 1955, £lO6 12/6; 1959, £lO5 10/; 1961, £lO6 10/. Bank of New South Wales, £3l 10/; Union Bank, £9; Tooth’s Brewery, 53/; Anthony Hordern, 18/104; ditto, preference, 23/44; British Tobacco, 39/3; Broken Hill Pty., 56/9; Colonial Sugar, £42 5/; Dunlop Perdreau, 16/44; Howard Smith, 14/6; James Steadman, 17/74; Wilcox Mofflin, 11/3. Later sales included; Bank of New South Wales, £3l 10/; Union Bank, £9; Colonial Sugar, £42 5/; Associated News, 23/4; Howard Smith, 14/8; Burns Philp, 63/; Australian Gas, A shares, £8 1/; British Tobacco, 39/3; Tooth’s Brewery, 53/; Toohey’s Brewery, 29/44; Henry Jones, 36/3; Millaquin Sugar, 33/6; Henry Jones, 40/6; > Anthony Hordern, 19/; Meggitt’s, . 21/6; G. J. Coles, 69/3; General In- ! j dustries, 17/104d; Drug Houses of | • Australia, 26/6; Mt. Morgan, 36/14; j ■ Mt. Lyell, 19/104; Broken Hill Pty.,! I 56/9; South Broken Hill, 88/; Larut, j i 11/4; Malim Nawha, 15/6. )< Melbourne sales included; —Metro-I politan Gas, £l4 14/; Gordon and j: Gotch, 46/; G. J. Coles, 68/9; Mt. j i Lyell, 19/9. ! 1