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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16673, 18 October 1917, Page 3

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! — '■ ♦ ';—:— • ONIONS AT FIFTEEN PENCE. [BY TELEGRAM.—rXESS ASSOCIATION'.] WELLINGTON. Wednesday. Osioss realised the record market price of Is 3d per lb to-day. STOOK SALES. AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loon and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report: At Westtic.d ' yams on Thursuay last we had a large yawing. Prices for ail stock advanced. Best dairy cows' and hei'crs, £13 10s to £17 10s; others £10 to £12 15s; bulls, ,'gns to 20gns; empty cows and heifers, £8 lis 6d to £11 ss; ycar.iug to 18-months heifers, £6 to £8 sa; ditto, steers, £3 Ids to £9 10s; calves, £3 10s to £5 12s 6d. On Friday at Albert yards horses were yarded in average numbers and sold at Into rates. Heavy draughts, £19 10s to £33; medium, £17 to £26; light sorts, £9 to £16; i pomes, £-1 to £8. ; , At Clevedon on Monday we held a clearing Bale on account of Mr. Jas. Ouinn. There i was a largo attendance and wo report a good • | sale Dairy cow 3 and heifers so'ld at from : ]£U to £18 10s; bull. ISigiis; yearling steers, > £8 103; yearling heifers, £G 10s; farm horses, £12 to £31 10s. At Alfriston on Monday wo held a clearing , sale on account of Mi. F. B. Knight, and , i report a most successful sale. Dairy cows . sold to £17; yearling steers and heifers, [ mixed, £0 18s 6d; farm horse, £7 15s. [ At Wa-rkworth on. Friday last and Taka- . puna on Monday, wo had good yardings and report almost complete clearances at mling vatos. Dairy cows, from £10 17s Gd to £16 M! yearling bulls, Oigns, to 15jgns; yearbag to 18-montlia heifers, £5 16s to £8- fat cows, £10 lOs to £15 os; cows with calves, £11 to £21 15» ; fat bulls, £12 to £13 15s. At Westfield fat stock market on Wednesday beef was penned in average numbers. Competition was scarcely as keen as the previous week, best oxen telling to £2 16s • PC' 1001b. others £2 12s to £2 17s per 1001b. Cow and heifer beef sold at from £2 8s to I£2 15s per 1001b. Steers sold at from £15 to £-4 15s; cows and. heifers. £9 to £16 17s Gd. Some of the averages were: Ei"ht I steers from Messrs. Hicks Bros.. Cambridge, £23 7s Gd: 9 steers from Mr. Geo. Harding, Kaipara Flats, £18 :0s; 9 steers from Mr. Jos Given, Pollok, £17 16s: 18 steers from host Coast. £18 15s. Calves were penned in increased numbers and sold at prices „ shade easier than last week's quotations. Runners made to £10 2s 6d: heavy vealers. £7 12s 6d to £8 15s; lighter, £3 17s 6d to is los; light-weights, £2 10s to £3 16s: good coloured, strong, fresh-dropped, 16s Gd Jo *2 2s Gd; weak and bad colours. 6s 6d to 17a. Sheep were penned in full numbers and competition was keen up to last week's rates. Best wethers sold from £2 6s to £2"?; a pen of extra well done wethers, from Mr. H. R. Mackenzie's farm. Mangere. realised £3 Gs, the proceeds being donated to the Salvation Army War Fund, the purehssars being Mossru. R. and W. He'laby, Ltd.; others, £2 2s to £2 5s 6d: shorn wethers, £1 Ms to £1 19s 9d; fat ewes, £1 ii 5 ii n to , £2 ss M; silorn ewes. 26s fid to il Us 6d. Lamhs were penned in large numbers, prices being consequently easier (111 sold). Best. £1 5s 6d to £1 10s 6d; others, £} to £1,5s 3d; 102 wethers from Mr. H. R. Mackenzie averaged £2 15s Gd; 210 shorn wethers from East Const mern-ged £1 18s 6d; 5} wethers from Mr. M. B. Kirkbrids, Mangere averaged £2 7e lid; 91 wethers from North averaged £2 IC-: 99 wethors from Mr. J. o. Montgomery, Mangere. averaged £2 Ss 9d: 4 lambs from Mr. Chas. Coshead averaged £1 8s 3d; various other consignments of lambs averaged over £1 ii. Pigs were nenned in large numbers and showed no >"nro"'"nont in prices. No choopers yarded. Heavy baccners, £5 Gs to £7 ssmedium bnconers. £4 5s to £5 Is; light, £3 las to £1 4s: large porkers, £3 3s to £3 14ssmaller. £2 7s to £8 j 8! small, £1 15s to £2 6s; slips, £1 Is to £1 14s. Dalgcly and Co., Lid. report having he'd their weekly sale of fat stock at Westfield yesterday, as under: — B°ef: A fair yarding, and prices wero slightly easier than hist week. Choice pens i »'«'» "rime-ox made up to £2 17s nor 1001b; ordinary quality, 48s tc 545; prime cow and heifer beef, 46s to 555. Veal: A large yarding. Heavy runners made up to £11 17s 6d; medium ditto, £7 15s to £9 7s 6d; suckers, £3 10s to £5 10s: small calves, 5s to 28a. Mutton: A good yarding, and prices wero lower than last week. Prime extra heavy wethers mado up to £2 14s; " medium wethers, 30s to 433; heavy ewes, up to 46s 6d; hoggets, 24s to S3r»; shorn tat wethers mado 35s 6d. to 38s; shorn fat ewes, up to 365. Lamb: A small yarding of spring lambs, which mado from 22c to 803 6d. Pork: A good yarding, which sold at late rates. Bacon pigs sold at equal to Sd per lb; porkers, to 9d per lb. according to quality; choppers sold up to £9 10s; good quality weaners sold from 15s to 235; alias i raado from 19s to 27a: , , • Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, report: — At tho Haymarket on Friday last we had an average yarding- of horses. Aged I draughts brought from £14 to £29 10s; | young draughts. £31 to £42 10s; young lorry and heavy express sorts, £32 to £40; light harness class, £7 15s to £16: gig ponies, £3 10s to £12 10s. On Thursday we held a clearance sale at Mr. R. F. Wilkinson's, Pukekohe. .There was a large attendance, and o most successful sale resulted. The grade Jersey cows realised from 10}gns to 40gns; heifers, 17gns to 30gns, the herd averaging 24}gns; pedigree Jersey bulls, lligns to 37gns: pigs, hows and litters B}gns to lOgns, empty sows 3gns to 7gnß; farm mare, £31There was about an average yarding of dairy and store stock it; Westfield on Thursday. All classes were in keen demand, especially dairy cows and heifers. Best cows mado from £15 10s to £18 15s; best heifers, £15 to £16 lCsj, second grado cows, £12 to £14 10s; smaller springing heifers, £9 to £12; empty cows and unsound cows in calf, £7 153 to £11; yearlings, mixed sexes, £7 to £8 ss; calves, £4 to £6 10s; bulls,, lOgns to 25gns. W e held our monthly sale at Turua on Friday, and yarded the advertised number of cattle. Buyers were in attendance, and little failed to change owners._ Dairy cows and heifers, £11 to £17. according to quality : fat cows and heifers, £11 10s to £15 ss; fat steers, £16 5s to £17: empty cows, £7 17s to £10 10s; three to tour-year-old steers, £12 10s to £14 10s; > 18-months to two-year-old steers, £10 to £12: yearlings,' £7 to £8 10s; cakes. £3 10s to £6; aged owes. £1 7s 6d. ■ On Tuesday we held our monthly sale in the Bunciman yards, and had a record salo, both as regards number and prices, Tho yards wero completely filled, and included 737 two to four and a-half-year-old steers, the greater number being three and four-year-olds. There was an extra large attendance of buyers, a strong demand, and prices were higher all round. Fifty grown steers and two liens of cows were all that did not change hands. Forward four to four and a- • half-year-old steers made from £15. 17s to £16 ifls; good four-year-olds. £14 15s to £15los; three to four-year-olds, £13 15s to £14 12s 6d; two to three-year-olds. £12 5s to £13 12s; 18-month to two-year-olds. £10 10s to £12; best yearling steern, £8 18s to £9 10s; less quality yearling,- steers, £7 12s to £8 10s; heifers, same age, £7.t0 £8; fat cows and heifers, £11 10s te £16; amply cows, £3 10s to' £11; calves. £4 5s to £6 17s; bulls, £12 12s to 26gns; dairy cows, £12 10a to £17 springing heifer i, £10 10s to £15 Es. ; At our weekly Westfield fat stock market

yesterday our supply of tat cattle numbered 277 head, comprising 177 steers, 99 cows and heifers and 1 bull. The quality of the steer beef was esco'lent throughout. There was a steady demand, and generally valuoa wero on - oar with fast week rates. Choice nx told to £2 19s; prime ox, £2 16s to £2 18s; plain and rough beef, £2 5s to £2 12s; cow and hoifer beef, £2 18s to £2 16s per 1001b; steers ranged in price from £15 to I £24 10s; cows and heifers, £10 10s to £22— the latter price for a cow from Mr.. Jus. Taylor's Glen Inncs property, West Tamaki. The highest averages for steers were:— I from Mr Benj, Reed, Wacrenga, £22 Is Gdj II cow, £19 ss; 12 from Mr. A! Muir, junr., Takanini, £21 7s 9d; 9 Polled Angus from Mr. W. V,'. McLaughlin, Papatoetoe, £21 116s; 21 from the North. £19 17s 6d; 9 from . Mr. C. J. Storoy, Woodstock, To Awamutu, . £19 4s Gd: 13 local, £18 17a 6d; 8 from Mr. J. B. Teasdale, To Awamutu, £18 18s; 9 from. Mr. J. A. Hill. Ohinewai. £18 4s 6d; 6 from Messrs. Lupton Bros., Karakn, £18 Is Gd; 11 very choice two and a-half-year-olds from Mr. R. McCullough, Ardmore, £17 9s; 10 from Messrs. Martin Bros., Mannrewa, £16 15s 9d; 9 two-year-olds from Mr. IR. Hall, junr., Wiri, £16 8s; 6 two-year--1 olds from Mr. W. Death, Waingaro, £16 2s 6d; 3 heifors from same vendor, £14; 9 cows from Messrs. Shipherd Bros., Puni, £14 18s 6d: 6 heifers from Mr. A, S. Thompson. Pakuranga, £14 Is Bd. i The sheep pons wero moderately filled with !a, nice class of mutton. The demand and values were similar to last week's sale. Best heavy prime woolly wethers, £2 7s Gd to £2 9a 9d; shorn, £1 19s to £2 la; medium to heavy prime woolly wethers, £2 2s 6d to £2 6s Cd; shorn, £1 15s to £1 18s; light and unfinished woolly wethers, £1 16s to £2 2s; shorn, £1 13s to £1 14s 9d; primo woolly hoggets, £1 15s to £1 18s 9d; shorn, £1 9s to £1 lis; heavy prime woolly ewos, £!! 5s to £2 8s; shorn, £1 lGs to £1 193; good woolly ewes, £1 18s 6d to £2 33; shorn. £1 lis to £1 14a; inferior shorn ewes, £1 5s (1289 penned). Spring lambs were slightly easier in price. Best made from £1 6s to £1 9s 9d; lighter, £1 3s 8d to £1 ss; light, £1 to £1 3s (46 sold). • Fat and young calves wero penned in average numbers and maintained late high prices. Runners made to £9 17s .Gd; heavy vealers, £5 17s fid to £7 ss; medium, £4 10s to £5 10s; light, £3 103 to £4 ss; light, £2 10s to £3 7s 6d; small ' and fresh-dropped, £1 to £2 5s ; weak and . inferior. 6s to 15s (81 sold). Pigs camo for- I ward in larger numbers than of late and there was a slight, decline in late extreme prices. Choppers made from £G 17s fid to £7 10s; heavy baconers, £5 to £6 6s: others, £3 15s to £4 ,15s; large porkers, £3 3s to j £8 12s; medium, £2 12s to £3: small, £118s to £9 10s; slips, £1 8s to £1 15s; weaners, . 14s 6d to £1 5s (312 sold). ADDINGTON. i

[BY TBLECIUIH.— ASSOCIATION'.] CHRISTCHO'BCH, Wednesday. ;.. At the Addington market to-day there was a largo yarding of ■ almost al! classes of atoek. The entry of fat cattle showed Improved quality, and '■ prices . 'nero easier, ■ .especially for inferior classes of sheep,

Thero was a weaker demand far dry sheep '-• and ewes, and lambs failed in most cases to v roach reserves. The larger supply of fat lambs caused prices to ease. The fat sheep " market was also easier, and ii good many lots were passed in. The bulk of. a largo ottering of store cattle was passed in owing to owners' reserves not being reached. Bacon pigs wero nasicr, but porkers and stores again sold well. Quotations:— Stoia Sheep; Sound mouth ewes end lambs, 21s to 245, all counted; two and four, tooth wethers •''. Os fid to 35s 3d: four and six-tooth wethers, to 445; ewe hoggets, to 39s 4d; wether hoggets, to 345; n.ixcd f.ei hoggots. 23s lid to 3!is 6d; best new season's fat lambs, 30s to 33a 3d; lighter, 21s to 29s Bd. -rFat Sheep;. Extra prime wethers, to 57si ?" m e wethers. -15? to 50s: lighter wethers. JJs 6d to Ms Gd: extra prime shorn wethers. 455; prime shorn wether?, 33s 2d to 34s 3d- ?" m l 0, 7, M J ,°« to 475; lighter ewes, 34a fid Ito 80s 4d; shorn ewes. 29s 4d to 3os Id; hoggets. 36s 9d to Cb. Pat Cattle: Extra prima steers, to £"9 10s; prime steers £18 IDs to £21 10s: ordinary steers, £13 to £18; extra prime heifers -to £18 l? s (Id. prime' hoifers, £14 His to £i 7: ordinary hnt'nrs, £9" 10a to £14JXtea Pnme cows, £20 10s; prime cows, £16 to £18; ordinary cows. £10 to £14 10s m "™ P" tt,o: Mixed yearlings. £5 5s to 7$ 17s; two-year steers, £9; two-year heifers, ~1 lis bd; (liree-venr steers, £11 10s to £13 four-year - steers, £15 7s M: three-year iin 10s; dairy cows, £8 to £15. 'jilfi.T'T'i'! fn £9 I 5 baconor*. W» to 78s (equal to Old to 10W per IM : light stores. 60s to Css: medium. 35s to B**'smaller, 25s to 335; baconors, 21s Cd to 32?.' BTJRJfSIDE. [DT TELEGHAPn.-rnESS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIN, Wednesday. At the Bnmsjde market, to-day. the price of prime heel advanced fully 20s. Bert Kiort'vW 4 ' medium"'to ncoi £18 to £19 ss. IwM £11 10s to £16. SheenPrime wethers 889 9d, good 52s to 64s fid' g*dium «.i.oa to 60s. lighter 44s 6d to IPs i lis. x anting prime. Baconera ITis 0ther 6 61 26 48 34., t0 ** b ° Sl WMners ' «°»-