COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16483, 8 March 1917, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

; <<» LONDON WOOL SALES. .Messes. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London office :— Wool sales closed Saturday firm. Merinos, greasy generally 10 per cent., scoured 7} per cent, higher. Crossbreds, mostly withdrawn for Government use, nominally 10 per cent, higher. Lambs', 10 per cent, higher. Sales will reopen on 'March 20, offering 88,000 bales, of which 4000 are old stock." The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ltd., haev received the following cablegram from their London office under 'date March 3 :— Wool sales closed. Market strong, averaging about 10 per cent, higher than January 16. Next sales are fixed for March 20." STOCK SALES. AUCKLAND. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., report as follows: — At Wostfield store sale on Thursday last, wo had a large yarding, prices being the Bam© as late Bales Best dairy cows ami hellers, closo to profit, ill 10s to £16 sb. others £8 10s to £10 15s: bulls. 7«ns to 12en8: empty cows, £7 10a to £9 128 6d; steer calves, £1 10s to £5 12s Gel heifer calves. £3 15s to £4 12s 6d; inferior calves. £2 to £3 as. On Friday, at the Albert Yards, horses were yarded in average numbers. Heavy draught*. £23 to £35 10s. medium draughts £18 to £20, hacks £7 to £12; ponies £4 to £'. At Alfristou on Saturday we hold a clearing sale on account Mr. A. H. Findla-y. There was a good attendance, and satisfactory prices ruled. The dairy cows sold at from £8 15s to £15, yearling heifers £6, calves £3 15s. mares £21 and £13. Quantity cans. otc., at ruling prices. . . On Thursday last, at Coromandel. wo had a large yarding of both sheep and cattle, a good clearance being made. Dairy cows and heifors. £7 15s to £11 loSi bull*. £» to £13 10a: good calves, £1 103 to £5 ss. others £3 to £4 7s 6d; emnly cows. £7 to £S Ins: vearling to 18-months heifers. £5 5s to £G 1!)-,; ditto steers. £6 10s to £8 15s; beet at Westfield price?. Sheen: Ewes. £1 4a to £1 6s 3d: lambs, woolly £1 2s to £1 4s 6d. shorn 16s to IBs. , ~ At Tualtau last Thursday wo held our second sheep fair, when moro than toe advertised numbers came forward. Competition was scarcely as keen as tho first sale. Iwotooth ewes sold at from £1 14s to £2 2s 6d; four and six-tooth ewes. £1 12s to £1 18s fid: fresh full-month ewes. £1 10s to £1 lis; fullmonth to failing ewes, £1 2s to £1 9s: stor» wethers. £1 lis to £1 lGs Gd-, woolly lambs. 18s to £1 43 3d; shorn, 12s 6d to 19s 9d: Romncy rams, Gems to 9gns for two-tooths, older rams 3gns Howards. On Tuesday, at Papakura. we had a largo yarding of all classes of stock. Best dairy cows and heifers. £11 to £15 10s, others £3 to £10 10s. The advertised dairy of Mr. D. McConnell. Hunua. sold at from £9 15a to £14 10s; 3 to 3i-year-old steers, £12 Ids to £14 15s; 2-year to 2i-vear-old steers, £0 IBs to £11 17s Gd: yearling to 18-months steers, £7 to £9 8s; yearling to 18-months heifers, £G to £7 15s: heifers been with bull, suitable dairy purposes, £7 10s to £9; empty cows and hoifers, £7 5? to £9 12s fid: bulls. £8 to £17 15s. according to weight and ouality; best steer calves, £4 17s fid to £6 15s, others £3 10s to £1 12s 6d • best heifer calves, £1 to £5 2s Gd. others £2 15s to £3 19s. There was a very large yarding of hoe!, numbering 178 head, winch sold at Westfield prices, steers selling at from £13 15s to £18; cows and heifers. £10 to £16. ■ -a- Quantity of carts, harness and sundries was also sold, realising satisfactory prices. An extra nice pen of Shorthorn steer calves sold on account of Mr. F. W. Brown, Clevcdon, realised £6 15s At Westfield fat stock market on Wednesday, beef was penned in scarcely average numbers, and sold at last week's rates. Best oxen, to £2 10s Qjt per 1001b. prime £2 8s to £2 10s. rough £2 to £2 5s Gd per ICOlb. Co-.y and heifer kef. £2 Is to £2 7s per 1001b. Steers sold at from £13 to £20 17s 6d; cows and heifers, £9 to £15 15s; some of the averages were: 13 steers from Mr. James «Givon. Pollok. £18 10s; eight steers, from I Mr. W. Gray, Cambridge. £19 2s fid; 12 small steers, from Mr, Thos. Wallace, Manure, £16; 2G steers from Mr. Win. G-ol-lan, Panmurc. £18 15s 6d: seven steer 3 from Mr. J. MaMieson. PaDakora, £17 11.-- four rows from Mr. D. Barry, Papatoetoe, £14 2s; five cows from Mr. N. K. Taylor, Gordonton. £13 Gs; 18 cows and heifers from Mr. Geo. Robinson. Ellerslie, £13 Is 6d Calves were penned in full numbers, and sold at last week's prices. Runners sold at from £7 5s to £10 12s Cd; heavy voalers, £5 10? to £7, medium vealers £4 5s to £.'. 7s Gd, lighter vealers £3 3s to £4 3s, light vealers £1 IPs | to £3; small and fresh dropped, "s to £1 17?. Sheep were penned in average numbers, and 1 advanced in prices, best wethers spiling at from £1 17s 9d to £2 2s Gd. others 33« to £1 16s 9d; store ditto, £1 Is upwards: best ewca.' 33s to £1 Its 9d, others £1 6s to £1 12a 6d; hoffsreta, £1 8s to 345: lambs, in averago numbers sold at late rates, best £1 4s to £1 8s 6d. others 17s to £1 3s Gd. Pigs, in very large numbers, showed no improvement in nrices. No choppers or heavy baconers i yarded. Medium baconers. £3 lis to £1 ss; light baconers, £3 Is to £3 10s: heavy porkers. £2 133 to £3 ss; medium porkers, £2 3s to £2 12s: light porkers. £1 Its to £2 2s; slips, £1 to £1 12s; weaners, 10s to 19s. Messrs. Alfred Auckland and Sons report:— At the Haymarkct on Friday last, we had an average yarding of horses. Aged draughts j brought from £22 to £30; bakers' and gro- < cers' cart class, £14 to £18 light harness ! sorts and hacks. £7 5s to £16; gig ponies, £3 10s to £10 10s; aged and worn horses and weeds, all prices. On Monday and Tuesday we held our monthly sales at Ilelensville and Wellsford respectively, and had full yarding* at both coutres. Competition was keen, and a gene- 1 ral clearance resulted. Best dairy cows i and heifers realised from £10 10s to £13 10s. I aged and inferior £6 15s to £9 10s; empty | cows, £7 to £10 133; fat cows and heifers, I £9 7s 6d to £15 2 9 6d: bulls, £7 5s to £14 i 2s Cd; fresh three-year-olds, £12 17s 6d to £14 7s; two to two and a-half year old steers, £10 5s to £11 7s; yearling Jo 18 months steers, £7 to £9 7s Gd; 18 months heifers. £6 2 R 6d to £8 os; good calves. £4 2s to £5 6s. others £3 to £4, small and weedy £2 lis to £2 18s; two. four, and six tooth ewes, £1 lis to £1 13s 6d: fresh full-mouth ewes, £1 7s to £1 10s; aged ewes, 16« 6d to £1; good lambs to' £1 2s Gd: small and weedy lambs, 9s Gd to 14s; wethers. 31s 3d to 35s 9d; Romney rams, 4-lgns to 7gns; Lincoln rams, Signs to Signs. At Kumcu, on Wednesday, wo had a small yarding, which sold at late quotations. At our weekly Westfield sale of dairy and storo stock on Thursday, March 1, a fair yarding found ready buyers. Dairy cows brought from £12 10s to £16 for best: others, £9 10s to £12; best springing heifers, £11 to £14 ss; movo backward, £8 10s to £10 10s; empty cows, £7 10s to £10 sb; 18-month heifers, in calf, £7 to £8 15s; two-year-old steers. £10 12s; yearlings to 18-month steers, £7 to £0; calves, £2 10s to £5; full-mouth ewes, £1 7s to £1 12s: i small two-tooth ewes, £1 10s to £1 14s. ! The Waiuku y.iids were comfortably filled I with stock on Saturday, March 3. Them \ was a larg<; attendance, and a good de- | mand. Dairy cows and heifers made from i £8 10s to £14;. empty cows, £7 10s to £9 17s; 18-month to two-;.ear-old steers, £8 18s to £10 15s; heifers, same age, £6 10s to i £9; fat cows and heifers, £9 10s to £14; j best calves, £4 15s to £~ 10s; smaller calves, | £3 10s to £4 10s: small, £2 2s to £2 8s; weenor pigs, 10s to 16s; slips, to £1 Bs; suckers, 7s. A quantity of produce, etc., sold at full values. Wo held our second sheep fair in the Tuakau yards on Monday, March 6. and penned 5695 sheep ot all classes. Buyers were in attendance from far and near, and with few exceptions everything sold. Young sheep and lambs maintained late values. Older classes were easier than at last month's sale. Best two and four-tooth ewes. £1 18s to £2 Is 9d. A line of 450 twotooths from T} Akau realised tho latter price. Socond-grado two tooths, £1 12s to I £1 lGs; small two-tooths, £1 7s to £1 10s; i large-framed six and eight-tooth ewes, £1 I 15s to £1 17s 6d; best sound-mouth owes, £1 lis 6d to £1 14s; second-grade, £1 9s to i £1 lis; full-mouth ewes, £1 6s to £1 8s; old ewes aud culls. 19s to £1 s=; best two j and four-tooth wethers, £1 ISs to £1 15s; I other two-tooth wethers, £1 ,9s to £1 12s; j best woolly lambs, £1 '2s to £1 is ; smaller, IPs 6d to £1 Is; small woolly lambs, 14s to ; 17s; best shorn, 19s to £L Os 9d: tho 500 shorn ews lambs from To Akau averaged i £1 Is 9d; smaller shorn, 16s to 18?: small. I 12s fid to 15s; Romncy rams, £4 4s to £8 8s; Lincolns, £4 4s to £6 Gs; Leicester?. £4 4s to s?ffn«; black fares. £1 10s to '3 3s. Yesterday at our Westfield weekly fat stock market our yarding of fat cattle, numbered 360 head, comprising 218 steers, j 140 cows and heifers, and 2 bulls. The demand was loss keen and values were somewhat erratic. Choice or sold to £2 10s, prime £2 Gs to £2 8s 6d. plain and rough £1 15s to ! £2 2s; cows and heifers, £2 2s to £2 Gs Gd : j steers ranged in price from £12 15s to £27. The latter price was obtained for a steer from Mr. H. Rothery. Te Kuiti, and bought by Messrs. R. and W. Hcllaby, Ltd. Cows and heifers. £9 10s to £19, this figure for a cow from Mr. James McNicol. Waiorongomai. and purchased by Mr, James Cunningham The highest nveragos for steers wore 40 from Mr. Geo. ltiddells, Marakopa property, £19 lis; 5 from Mr. 11, Rothc-y, To Kuiti. £21 3s; 8 from Miss Olive Muir, Mangere, £18 12s Gd; 14 from Mr. Isaac Gray. Papatoetoe, £18 2s 8d; 17' from Messrs. Biddiik Bros., £17 Is 43; 16 from Mr. Stuart Richardson, Cambridge, £17 0s 7d: a truck from Mr. D. Webster, Te Kuiti, £16 12s 6d; 7 from Mr. John Muir, Mange're, £16 7s 6d; 9 from Mr. C. J. Storey, Woodstock. 'Awamntu. £16 0s 6d; 9 cows from Mr. James McNicol, Wftiorongomai, £14 13s 4d; 12 cows from Mr. J. A. Steele, Rultuhia. £13 5s 7d; and 12 cows from Messrs. Biddick Bros., £11 15s: 2 steers from Mr. Sam. Steele. Rukuhia. £18 lS».i The sheep pens were moderately filled. There was a steady demand, with little or no alteration from last report. Extra heavy primo wethers, £2 Is fid to £2 3s 3d; 55 very 1 prime 2-tooth wethers from Hon, E. Mitehelson, Motutara.' Waimauku, averaged £2 2s 4d; heavy prime wethers. £3 J"s to £2: > medium to. heavy prime wethers, £1 15g to £1 lfis 9d; liVht and, unfinished. £1 12s to £lil6«: best heavy prime owes, £1 13 3 i 0 ' £1 18i; good ewes, £1 10s to ■ £1 12s 6d : other eves, £1 8s to £1 9s i (1839 sold). The ' /':■'%' ■'"'-' :■'■.■•'■"■'..■'■ .'-: > ' .■;" :•'.:«!'•:;£■ A '■ ' ;:..■■..

- . • 279 lambs penned met with a keen Bile, large-framed unfinished sorts Best lambs £1 6s 6d to £1 7s, entailer. £1 2s to £1 6s, unfinished 19a 9d to £1 3s 9d. Out yarding of fat and young calves was not up to the average and all classes sold under keen competition at k'.e values. Bunnors made from £8 10s to £10 ss; heavy voalers, £6 to £7 10*; medium, £4 10s to £5 17s Gd; lighter, £3 to £1 7 9 6d; light, £2 2s to £2 17s; small an J fresh-dropped, 14s to £2; weak and- inferior from 6s '.40 sold). Pigs cams forward in full numbers. Porkers and baconers maintained late prices; store piss are not in demand. Choppers and heavy bowmen sold from £3 12s to £4 ss; small. £3 to £3 10s; large porkors. £2 8s to £2 1S.«; others, £1 15a to £2 6s; slips. £1 to £1 l 0»: weaners, lis to 18s; suckers, Gs to 10?. (313 sold). Dainty and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual weekly fat stock salo at Wcstfield on Wednesday. Beef: A moderate yarding and prices for prime ox beef were a thado lower. Other classes ruling at late rates. Choice pons | of extra primo ox sold at equal to 49s per , 1001b, ordinary quality oi beef made up to | 45s to 473 per ICOlb. cow and heifer beef 1 made equal to 40s to'44s per 10011). | Veal: A moderate yarding and prices wore i on a par with late rates. Extra primo run- ] ners made up to £10 2s 6d, which price wo | obtained for two on account ci Mr. C. O ] I'hair, Tfttipiri. Good suckers up to 39s to t 58s. others 10s to 325. Mutton: A small yarding and prices were on a par with lato rates. Extra heavy primo! •wethers made up to 41s, ordinary heavy j wethers 36s to 395, light wethers 32s to 345, j heavy ewes made 32s to 36s 6d, mediumweight ewes 27s to 29s 6d, unfinished 20s 9d j to 21s. . Lamb: A moderate yarding which sold I under keen competition at hieher prices than I lato rates. On account of J. 11. Allen. Awhitu j Central, we sold a draft of fine shorn lambs, i raping £1 5s 9d. I Fork' A large entry and prices were well j up to lato rates. Bnconerr. made up to £•'! ! 18s, porkers 38s to 545, other* up to 21s to 31s ADDINGTOX. [BY IELEGRArn.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHBIBTCHUBCII, Wednesday. At iho Addinglun stock market to-day there was a large entry of all classes. The demand was good and the ealc a favourable one. Prices:— Store Sheep: Mixed sex lambs. 10s 6d to 21a 9d; ewe. lambs, lis 6d to 24s Gd; wether iambs. 14s 6d to 23s 9d; two-tooth ewes, 2.1s 9d to 37s Gd; two and four-tooth ewes, 30b 6d to 35?; four and six-tooth owes, 31s lOd to 34s <Jd; six and eight-tooth ewes, 27s j to 33s 84; sound mouth ewes, 19s Hi to 32a 6d; two, four, six, and eight-tooth ewes, | 24s 3d to 26s 9d; sound mouth and failing mouth ewes, 17s to 19s lid; two-tooth j wethers, 23s Id; two, four, and six-tooth wethers! 20s Cd to 275; Merino wethers, ! 19s 3d. Fat Sheep: Extra prime wethers, to 40s: prime wethers, 323 Gd to 36s 4d; lighter wethers, 28s to 31»; prime ewes, 37s to 40s; medium owes, 29s to 36e; lighter ewes, 22s 6d to 265. Fat Lambs: Extra prime to 35s 9d, prime 26s 8d to 30s 9d. medium 23s to 24s -Id, lighter 18s 9d to 22s lOd. Fat Cattle: Extra prime steers, to £23 ss; prime steers, £14 15s to £19; ordinary steers, £9 las to £14; extra cows, £17 173 Gd; prime cows, £11 10s to £11 10s; ordinary cows, £9 5s to £10 10s; extra prime heifers, £15 10a; prime heifers, £10 5s to £14; ordinary heifers, £8 5s to £10. Store Cattle: Yearling to £2 Ms Gd. 15 to 18-mcnths £4 10s Gd, two-year steers. £6 15s: two-year heifer", £5 17s Gd to £6 6«: throeyear steers, £8 17s 6d to £10 15s; throe-year heifers, £7 17s 6d to £8 103; dry cows. £6 f-8 to £10 15=: dairy cows, old and inferior. £6 to £12; be;'.. £17 to £19. Pigs: Choppers, £5 6s to £7; extra heavy baconers. to £5 13s; heavy baconers. £4 10s to £5; ordinary baconers, £3 15s to £4 ss, equal to 7;d per lb; heavy porkers, 55s to 60s: lighter porkers, 463 to 50s. equal to id per lb; stores, best 57s to G4s; medium, 47s 6d to 535: small, 24s to 30s; weaners, 17s Gd to 21s Gd. BURXSIDE. [by telegraph.— press association.! v. DTJNEDIN, Wednesday. At the Burnside stock market to-day 141 head of fat cattle were penned, the quality on the whole being only medium. Prices, which advanced about 10s, were: Prime bullocks £19 7b 6d, medium £16 to £13 light £13 5s to £14 15s; prime heifers £1< 10s, medium £11 to £12 15s, light aged £! to £9 15s, Sheep; 2220 were penned, only a few pens being of prime quality. Prices opened oi a par with late rates, but towards the enc of the sale receded about Is Prices: — Extra prime wethers 48s Cd, prime 40s tc 455, medium good 35s to 39s 6d. light 30s; primo ewes -'Is <M. medium 35s to 38s, light aped 22s 6d to 265. Lajnk?: 2766 were penned, the quality be ing medium. Freezing buyers operated foi suitable lines, for which prices were full] maintained. There was a slight rednctioi towards the end of the salo. Prices:—Prim< 30s to 33s 6d, good 26s to 30s, medium 22i to 24 3 Gd. lis-ht 18s 6d to 2Ts. Piss: There was a small yarding of pigs, and prices were above last week's values.