COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16703, 22 November 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

DALGETY AND COMPANY, LTD. The New Zealand superintendent for Dalgety and Company, Ltd., has received cable advice that the directors will, at the annual meeting of shareholders on Kove-nber 29. recommend a. dividend of 4 per cent., making with the interim dividend, 8 per cent. for the 12 months: also a bonus of 5s per share. The sum of £100.000 is to be written off to the reserve fund, £100,000 off premises account, and £10,000 to the staff benevolent fund, whilst £102,770 is to be carried forward. PROPERTY SALE. Messrs. Smith and Halcombe will offer for sale in their auction rooms. 6. Customs Street East to-morrow, at 2 p.m., 74a and 76. .Nelson Street, comprising two houses, both let and in good order. Also, under instructions from the Registrar of the Supreme Court, they will offer land at Birkenhead, terms are easy, and the property has to be sold. STOCK SALES. AUCKLAND. The New .Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, .Ltd., report: — On Wednesday at tho Westfieid fat stock market beef was penned in large numbers and all of good quality. Competition was not as keen as the previous week, and prices receded 2« .per 1001b. Best oxen sold to £2- }'&,? lOOlu, others £2 7s to £2 12» 6d per lUOib. Cow and heifer beef sold at from £2 5s to £2 lis per 1001b. Steers sold at from £14 to £21 ss. Cows and heifers sold at £& to £18 6s, for a cow fattened by Messrs, Kirxby Bros., Cambridge. Some of the averages were:—Eight steers from Messrs. Hicks Bros.. Cambridge £20 16s 3d; five heifer 3 from Messrs. Hicks Bros., Cambridge, £15 16s; 12 steers from Mr. Robert Clark, Karaia, £20 2s 3d; eight small steers from Mr. James Given, Waiuku. £18 3s 9d; eight small steers from Mr F. Bregman, Waiuku, £17 18s 9d; 17 small steers from Mr. W. Henry, Tanpiri, £17 3s; 24 steers from Mr. Jas. Lord, Marohemo. £17 7s; four cows from Messrs. Kirkby "Bros., Cambridge. £16 16s; 40 stags from Mr. W. Paterson, Motiti Island, £16 Is; 35 cows and heifers from Mr. \V. Paterson. Motiti Island, £12 12s 6d. Calves were penned in large numbers. Small calves sold at fully last week's prices: bigger sorts were easier. Runners, £7 5s to £11 15s: heavy -coalers. £5 15s to £7 3s; medium, £3 15s to £5 10s; light. £2 6s to £3 12s; small and fresh dropped, 7b to £2 Is. Sheep were penned in average numbers, and sold at last week's rales. No heavy-weights were yarded. Best shorn wethers, £1 14s 9d to £1 17s 3d. others £1 10s to £1 14s 6d, best BBorn ewes £1 12s to £1 15s, others £1 7s 6d to £1 lis 9d; woolly wethers, £2 2s 6d to £2 6s Gd: shorn hoggets. £1 63 to £1 lis. Lambs, in average numbers, sold at slightly improved prices. Beat. -£1 4s fid to £1 9s, o-.hers 18s to £1 4s 6d. inferior 9s 9d to 17b. Fifty lambs from Mr. H. R. Mackenzie, Mangere. averaged £1 8s 3d. Pigs, m average numbers. sold at strongly advanced prices. Choppers. £5 10s to £7 ss: large baooners, £4 16s to £5 9s, small £3 li'S to £4 15s; heavy porkers, £3 12s to £4 9s, medium £3 to £3 lis, light £2 6s to £1 19b; slips, £1 10b to £1 19s; weanors, lit to £1 &s.

• Last Thursday at Westfield wo had an average yarding. Prices were on a par with last week's sales for dairy cattle, store stock being easier. Best dairy cows and heifers, £13 to £18, others £10 to £12 IBs; empty cows and heifers, £7 to £9 7s 6d; bulls, Bgns to 15gns; calves, £3 10a to £4 17s 6d; yearling steers, £6 to £7 15s; yearling heifers. £5 10s to £5 123 6d. At Clevedon on Thursday we held a clearing sale on account of the Ness Vale Land Company. There was a large attendance, and we report a most successful sale. Dairy cows to £14 15s; three-year steers, £13 k 2i-year steers, £9 16s to £11 17» 6d; empty* cows and heifers, £7 to £10; calves, £4 to £5; yearling steers, £6 10s to £7 15b; yearling heifera, £5 7s 6d to £6 ss; ewes, with lambs, £1 18s 6d to £2 6s; shorn ewe hoggets, £1 8s 3d; shorn wether hoggets, £1 6s 9d.

At Albert Yards on Friday horses sold at late rates. Heavy draughts, £21 to £50, medium £17 to £26; hacks and light-harness horses, £9 to £16; ponies. £4 to £8. Or. Saturday at Waiuku we had a full yarding, and report a good sale. Best dairy cows and heifers, £12 to £16, others £9 to £11 15s: balls, 7gns to 16gns; empty cows and heifers, £7 6s to £9 7s 6d: yearling steers. £6 os to £7 15s; yearling heifers, £5 10s to £6 7s 6d; calves, £2 10s to £5; 21-year steers, £11 Ufa; porkers, £2 to £2 15s; slips, £1 4s to £1 16s; weaners, 13s to £1 3s. On Monday at Fapakura we held a special horse sale, when we had a large yarding, more than the advertised number being offered. We report a successful Bale. Heavy draughts £23 to £35, medium £17 to £26; aged and worn sorts. £9 to £16 10s; hacks, £9 to £14; light-harness sorts. £10 to £16; ponies.. £4 to £8; weeds, 10s to £3 10s. At Henderson on Monday the yards were more than filled, and although prices were easier, we report a good clearance. A nice line of three to 3|-year-old steers made from £14 7s to £15 ss; dairy cows, £6 12s 6d to £12 2s 6d; dairy heifers. £7 10s to £11 las; cows and calves, £10 15s to £14; fatcows. £9 IBs to £13; yearling heifers. £5 5a to £7 5.«: store cows. £7 15s to £9 12s 6d; bulls. £8 15s to £11 2s 6d; Jersey bulls, £5 5s to £7 10s. Horses and piss at ruling rates.

Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their weekly fat stock sale at Westfield on Wednesday, as under: — Beef: A good yarding and prices were lower than late rates. Extra prim© ox sold up to £2 12s per lOOib; ordinary quality made equal to £2 8s to £2 10s per 1001b; cow and heifer beef made equal to 42s to 46s per 1001b. Veal: Average yarding which sold at late rates. Heavy runners made up to £10 17s 6d; heavy suckers, £3 10s to £5 15s; light suckers. 48s to 55s- Others, 13s to 355. Mutton: Small yarding. Prices were a shade firmer than last week. Extra heavy wethers, shorn, sold at up to 41s 6d; medium weight wethers, 35s to 375; light and unfinished, 31s to 82s 9d; extra heavy shorn ewes sold up to 40s 3d, ordinary heavy shorn ewes, 28b to 88s; light and inferior ditto, 22s to 25s 6d. Lamb: A good yarding. Extra heavy prime fetched up to 24s Ed; medium weight, 18a 6d to 25s 6d; light ditto, 15s 6d to 17s 9d. Pork.—Small yarding and prices were very firm at late rates, baconors making equal to 8d per lb and pork up to BJd per lb.

Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, report:—

We had a large muster of dairy and store stock at Westfield, on Thursday, _ the 15th inst, and, with the exception of dairy cAttle, ] all classes were easier in price. Best dairy cows and heifers made from £15 to £19 (8 from Mr. W. Haslip averaged £16108), other j dairy cows £9 to £14; smaller springing i heifers. £8 10s to £11; empty cows, £7 10s I to £10 10s; yearling to 18-months Eeifers, £6 to £8 8s; steers, same age, £6 15a to £9; two to three-year-old steers, £9 10s to £12 Ids; calves, £2 2s to £4 10s; bulls, 9gns to 23gns. The advertised two-tooth wethers made from £1 5s 6d to £1 lis; ewes, same age, £1 9s 6d to £1 lis; store ewes, in wool, £1 5s 6d; ewes, with lambs, £1 13s. We held our bi-monthly sale at Clevedon, on Monday, 19th inst, and had » full yarding of both cattle and sheep. The former were not in such strong demand, and I values eased. Sheep sold well. Springers j brought from £10 10s to £13; fat cows and heifers, £11 to £14; empty cows, £8 10s t<s £10 10b; yearling to 18-months steers and heifers, £6 to £8 15s; calves, £2 to £3 15s; young bulls, £8 to £10 10s; fat wethers, £1 10s to £1 14s; fat ewes, £1 8s to £1 13s; hoggets, £1 as to £1 9s; weaner pigs, £1 3a to £1 9s. ~ , . _ , We held our monthly sales at Pokeno on Monday, the 19th, and Runciman, Tuesday, the 20th. There was an average muster at Pokeno, and at Runciman there was an exceptionally heavy yarding. The demand was leas keen, and in consequence values were lower. The three and four year old steers peuned at Runciman were superior to anything offered this season, both as- regards quihty and condition. Beßl three to four year old steers, in vary forward condition, made from £13 10s to £15 12s; good three-year-olds, £12 to £13: two-and-a-half to three-year-olds, £11 to £12 ss; yearling to two-year-old steers, £7 to £10 10s; heifers, same age, £G to £8 15s: empty cows, £7 10s to £10- fat cows and heifers, £11 to £14 6s; fat steers, £15 15s to £17: calves, £1 10s to £3 10s; dairy cows and heifers, £8 10s to £16 10s, according to age and quality. Bulls, £7 10a to £17 17s. Yesterday at our weekly Westfield fat stock* market our entry of beef numbered 320 head, comprising 242 steers, 72 cows and heifers, and 6 bulls. The quality again was firstclass. There was steady competition throughout, but owing to the increased supply of prime cattle values receded about 15s per head. Choice ox sold to £2 12s per 1001b; prime ox, £2 8s to £2 lis per 1001b; rougli and plain beef, £2 to £2 4a per 1001b; cow and heifer beef, £2 3s to £2 8s per 1001b. Steers ranged in price from £13 17a 6d to £24. This price was received for a steer from Mr. E. Allen. Cambridge. Cows and heifers, £9 to £15 15s. The highest averages for steers were: 15 from Mr. James Muir, Waerenga, £20 13s lOd: 16 from Mr. Ed. Allen, Cambridge, £20 6s 9d: 8 from Mr. F. Potts, Te Kama. £19 13s lid; 8 from Mr. C. J. Storey, Woodstock, Te Awamutu. £19 lis 3d; 8 from Mr. Geo. G. Hull. Otaua, Waiuku, £19 16s 3d; 16 from Mr. T. R. Tindall. Awhiti. £19 3s sd: 4 from Mr. John Muir. sen., Mansere. £19 la 6d; 8 from Mr. M. Dromgool. Aka Aka. Waiuku, £19 Os 4d; 8 from Mr. G. T. Bayly's, Wharepana property, £18 14s 4d; 16 from Mr. D. McCracken. Te Puke, £18 9s 9d; 16 from Mr. W. J. Mcß.ee. To Puko. £18 3s 9d; IB from Mr. Geo. Proctor. Orini. Taupiri, £17 lis 6(1; 8 from Mr. Jas. Given. Pollok, f\7 19s 3d: 12 from Mr. Chas Bisr-hoff, Waiuku, £17 Is lOd; 15 from Mr. Chaa. Wharfe, Tara. Kaiwaka, £16 18s 6d; 9 from Mr W W. Dickie, Walton, £15 7s 2d; 6 from Mr' B. Hall, i'?;. Wiri, * 15 10s 'Od; 2 from Mr. W. McLean, Walton. £18 15s; 7 heifers from same vendor, £12 4s 3d. Fat and young calves were penned in average numbers and were easier in price Runners made from £6 to £10 15s for aji 18-month barren heifer: heavy vealers. £4 5s to £5 15s; medium. £3 2s 6d to £4: light. £2 os to £3: small and fresh-dropped. 12s to £2: weak and inferior. 5s to 9s (69 sold). Pigs came forward in late numbers and again rose considerably in value. Choppers and heavy baconers made from £6 to £9others. £4 15s to £5 17s 6d • five extra heavy choppers from the Mental Hospital averaged £8 5s sd; large porkers. £3 15s to £4 10smedium, £3 to £3 >12s 6d; small. £2 to £2 15s; slips. £1 7s to £1 16s; *eanex», 12 8 6d to £1 6» 6d (224 gold).

There was about on average yarding of mutton, which met with a firm Bale. Prime aether mutton was slightly better, while other classes maintained last week's- rates. Extra heavy prime wethers. £2"to £2 "3s: 66 from Riverlea Estate. Hobsonville. averaged £2 Os 7d; heavy prime wethers. £1 16b 6d to £1 19s; several pens of prime woolly wethers made from £2 4s fid. to £2 7s; light and unfinished wethers. £1 10s to £1,14s Gd: hoggets. £1 5s to £1 123; heavv prime ewes £1 10s to £1 14s: one pen of extra special from Mrs., M urphy. Fiat Bush realised £2 Os 3d; heavy prime woolly ewes. £1 17s to £2 Is: good prime shorn ewes! £1 7s to £1 9s Gd: other shorn ewes. 14s to £1 ss: small woolly hoggets. £1 fl 5 in £1 14s; small shorn hogget?, £1 5s to £1 7s (1409 sold). Lambs came fcrwaH in increased numbers, and met withe a firm sal" Best heavy prime, £1 7= to £1 &s sd: 28 from Mr. Chas. Coxhend. Mannrewa. ave-"-seed £1 7s sd: 10 from Mr. T. H"nwooci. Mangere. £1 8s: good prune, £1 S» Bd.ta £1 6s 6d; lighter. 19= to £1 os; smaller. J6s M to ISs 6d (245 sold)

ADDIXGTON.

[bt TELEGEAFH.— ASSOCIATION'.]

I CHKISTCTTTJECH. Wednesday. j At the Addington market to-day there wero I fairly large entries of ail classes of stock. The demand for store sheep was a litt:« Keener, and prices were rather firmer. Fat lambs showed a decline of about 2s per | head, mainly due to tlio large entry. Fat caUle- were firm until the end of the sale, wen prices eased off. An export buyer was operating to some extent in medium [quality cows. The fat sheep market opened iat last week's rates, and after easing there [was a sharp advance equal to Is 6d to 23 per head on opening values. There was % fairly good demand for forward store cattle ■ and useful dairy cows. Prices:-—. . ........ Store Sheep: Four, and six tooth ewes, 32s Id; two-tooth ewes. 25s 3d: full-mouthed ewes. and lambs, woolly, 20s 9d; f.m ewes and .lambs, woolly, 21s Id; ewe hoggets, woolly,. 6d to 37s 6d; s.m. hoggets, 23s »d; b.s. Merino ewes and lambs, woolly, 16s 3d; four and six tooih wethers. 23s to 33s Id. woolly 32s 3d to 42s Id; two-tooth, wethers. 18s 3d-to 25s 7d; four-tooth wethers, 26s .Sd to 295; six-tooth wethers. 31s Id. Fat Lambs: A total of 571 were penned. Extra prime .to 80s, prime 25s 6d to 28s 6dlighter sorts, 20s to 255. Fat Sheep: Woolly wethers. 40s 9d to 483 10d; extra, prime shorn wethers, 47s 6dI prime wethers 32s 6d to 365; lighter wethers. 29s to 325; woolly Merino wethers. 33s Idextra prime ewes, 42s 6d; prime ewes, 30s to 35s 6d; lighter ewes, £5s to 29s 6d, Fat Cattle: Extra prime steers, £28 6sprime steers. £18 to £21: ordinary steers, £14 to £17 10s; prime heifers, £13 to £17ordinary heifers, £10 to £12 10s; extra prime cows, £18 ss; prime rows, £13 to £16; ordinary cows, £9 17s 6d to £12 10s. Store Cuttle: Yearling to 15-montlis, £5 lis to £7; two-year steers. £13 2.<- 6d; forward, 21-year steers, £13 15s; three-year steers, £10 4s to £12 17s 6d; forward fouryear steers, £16 17s 6d; three-year heifers, £8 5s to £10 15s; dry cows, £4 10s to £U 2s 6d; dairy cows, £8 to £15 Pigs: Choppers, £7 3s; baconers, £3 15s to £5 16s (equal to 7Jd to 7sd lb); porkers, 50s to 68b (equal to 9d lb): large stores 65s 6d, medium 44s to 50s, lighter 2*s 6d to 141s; weaaers, 163 to 25s

BI^tNSIDE.

[BY TELEGSAPH.—TIIESS ASSOCIATION.]

DTJNEDIN, Wednesday. ' At Burnside to-day 170 head of fat cattl* ■'fere penned, the bulk being of very good quality. At the commencement of the salo prices declined by 10s, but later the market became firm at "rate rates. Best buliccks brought £22 to £24, extra £27. medium to good £18 to £20, light £15 10s to £16 10s ; best cows and heifers, £16 10s to £18; extra show heifers, £28 7s 6d, medium to good £14 to £15 10s. light £12 to £13 10s. Sheep: 2003 head were penned, the entry heme principally shorn ewes and -wethers of good quality. Some very heavy wethers in wool met with good competition, but entry exceeded requirements, and prices declined by 2s, and, in some instances, more. Best woolly wethers brought 48» to 535, extra, 60s. good 44s to 465; best woolly ewes 46s to 48s, extra 545, medium to good 42s to 445; best shorn wethers 36s 6d to 395, extra 41s, medium to good. S3a to 355; best shorn ewes 32? to 365, medium to good 29s 6d to 31s, Lambs: 49 head were penned and met with keen demand. Best. 80s to 335; extra, 85a 3d; good, 2Ss to 30s.