STOCK SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17486, 2 June 1920, Page 5

STOCK SALES.

AUCKLAND. Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report:— Thero was an extra large yarding of cattle and few stores at Westfield on Thunday liood cows and heifers continue to sell well' best making- from £13 to £26 10a; secondgradecows £14 to £18; others. £10 10a to £13, lOff. old and inferior £5 5s to £10; best spriflffine heifers, £1G to £21; good heifers, £12 to £15, others £5 10s to £11; empty cows, £3 10s to £6 17s 6d; 18-month to two-year-old steers, £3 10s to £6 ss; heifers £2ios age ' £3 108 £9 ss; ealves, 138 to . On Saturday at Mangero we bold a clearing Bale on account of Mr. W. J. Morris lhero was a largo attendance, and we re. port a good sale. The cowa sold at from £22 to £28 10s for best, others £12 to 21 • r ' «i r o',A° calve Jn 'y and August, £l u 10a 10 Alo 10s. At Whangarata on Saturday wo hold a clearing sale on account of Mr, A. G. Tliompeon. There was a fair attendance. The cows made from £10 10s to £19 10a; Tearing to 18-month heifers. £3 las to £7 10a • farm horses, £9 to £15 10s. On account of the holiday on Thursday we hold our weekly Westfield fat, stock market yesterday, instead of Wednesday lue teel pens contained 394 head, comprising 331 Borers, GO cows and heifers, and 8 bulls. I hero was p. steady demand throughout, witn values firm at last week's improved rates. Extra choice ox sold to £2 o. jjxiib: prime and choice ox, £2 A <°. . J. V 1CU L > ! ordinary and plain, £2 4? to i'J 7s; rough beef, £1 7s to £1 lascow ana ue;,er beef, £1 15s to £2 8s per iV,. ; steers ringed in Price from £20 to £.1 for heavy prime steers from Mr. W. bomm.M'viUc. V ( - lua i- lighter prime. £15 10s to £13 10s; r,«m, light an( l unfinished, £8 to ill IDs; cows and heifers, £11 to £15 % ° r „ M "efn ','n 1 hter fat COWB ' £8 10a to £10 10s; other cows, £4 to f.l 10g. Ihe highest averages of steers were 16 from Mr. W. Soramerviilo, Otaua., £22 6s id--8 from Mr. W. Wright, Otaua, £22 Is 3d- a from Mr. 0. G. hobertson. Otaua, £20; 8 from Mr. J. Pohlen, Matamata, £19 15a! 18 from Mr. 0. J. Storey, Woodstock, Te Awamutu, £18 183 '0d; 48 from Mr. C Noweham, Turua. £18 6s; 19 from M- E - H. -Browne Moumoukai, £16 16s 4d- 19 from Mr. Geo. Riddell's • St. Heiiers Bay property, £1G i l2s 07; 5 cows from the same vendor, «12 3s; 27 ex toast, £16 9s 8d.rom Jessra. Death Bros., Waitakaniru. £lo « Bd-, 9 cows , !m Mange re. £11 a? . ii OA , EIM,3 D trol « Mangero, £14 18s Bd. and 24 . ''" m Paputoetoc, £13 IPs lOd. The 1869 sheep which came forward were suili-CK-nt sor requirements, the demand and values being 011 a par with last week's quot.t,on». Krtra heavy, prime wethers, £2 3a w to « ss; heavy prime wethers, £2 to IT 170' i ,n S?'T \ 0 Ji oav y .P'F'- wethers, fi 'Jl ™ ''I, 1 ?? 1 '>?!> D nm<J, wethers. £1 13s 6d to £1 If,a Gr] lisht and unfinished wethers, £1 IPs to £1 133; best heavy prime ybung owes, £1 lis to £1 16s; heavy fat ewes, £1 Us to £1 13s; lighter ewe.,, £1 K 6fl to £1 10s other ewes. 18s to £1 7s 6d Very few lambs penned, and sold at ruluis prices. I- nt young calves camo forward in wort supp.jr. Competition was keen, and in *a I ",]' ?'- Kuan ?" niado from *6 to it. Jib Gd: heavy vealers. £4 fis to £5 8; medium £3 10s to £4, light £2 15, to ■[ 'L™ 1 f' I°', Jo £2 09. fresh-dropped I.i? to £1 is ,'|J sold 1. There ..was a small yarding of pij'i Competition was steady. 'i;' H wwrs sold at Inst, week's quotations lorlters-tmrrived !r pricco. Choppers, to i' las- medium baeor.srs, £5 Sa 0 £0 2slight baoo'ieys. £4 I7i 6<! to £5 V heavr porbrs,a i:« to £j lis; medium • porkers, i* ™ to -5.' '•«: '«Bht porkers. £25« to £.. .s; small slips. £1 7s to £1 VSs (175 sold). The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ltd.. report: — M Westfield. on Thursday Jaat, dairy cattle were keenly -competed for and eold to high vuluea: Best, closo to profit, £17 to £>'. tilliers £12 to £10 15s; backward, bast £13 to £17 ss, others £8 10s to £12153. Store cattle raid at Into Quotations; Empty cows and heifers, £•) to £6 15a; calves, £1 to £2 sgyearling to IS-roonths steers. £2 ISs to £4 ss• jvar.tny to 18-ii)«tths heifcru, £3 JOs to £3 los. i Wehftld a apccial horse sale at Pspakura r>n lharsday and report a good Kile. Wo mote: Heavy draughts £28 to £39, medium £22 to. £35. wed and worn sorts £10 to £10 !0«: l!;'ht harr,c3s sorta, £12 to £17 sshacks, £9 to £15 10s; ponies, £4 to £11wcodj, .#8 upwards; medium untrokens «is to /'SO, huavy unbrokena £18 to £25, lioht M to £10 10b. < ' " 4DI ' At PaMkura, oa Friday, wo bold «■ special dairy wile, there being m average yarding. Beat dairy cow» £15 to £23, others £10 U

£14 159, aged and inferior oowa £3 to £3 10s; beat -heifer* £14 to £19, others £8 io £13 15a. On £ rid ay at 'I'uaK&u we had vji average yarding which Bold at lafco qaotaiions. Beat dairy cows and heifers £13 to £15 10.?, others £7 to £11 15b, empty cows and heifer a £i to £6 IBs; yearling 'to 18-months steers £2 15s to £3 15s, 18-months to 2-year steers £4 to £5 sa; calves £1 upwards. ; At Papakura on Saturday we held a clear, leg sale oh acaount of Mr. J. A- Slack, Inert: wag a large attendance and wo report a good sale. • .!•<,# On Saturday, at Aidmore, w<i held Mr. Chas. CodJin's clearing sale. We report c, most satisfactory sale. The dairy cattlo sold at . ? £12 to £28 10s; horao £20; engine *15; Jersey bull 20gns.; pigs £1 5s to £5. At Weßlneld fat .stock market on Tuesday bed was penned in average numbers, bid. ding was erratic. With fow exceptions prices were slightly easier. We quote: Choice oxen t<? £212 a per 100 lb, prime oxen £2 7s to £2 10s per 1001b, Tough and inferior oaten, £1 17s to £2 6e per lOOlbj w - and' heifer beef sold at from £1 1(8 ,0 £2 7# r&r 1001b. Steers sold at m, J°ii7 be3 ' £18 103 to £22 Ms, others ii- t,Q £\' ,1 3: small and inferior steers, £ "'./i 1 -?;!,«"« and heifers sold at from £6 to £14 12s 6d. Calves were penned m ic;a than .average numbers, and sold al improved rates on last week's quotations Runners sold it from £3' 17s to £7 2s 6d' heat? vealora, £3 Is to £3 16s: medium veakrs, £2 9a to £3: light vealers. £1 12: to £2 7s; smaller calves. £1 2s to £1 lis - frosn-dropped t calves, ■ 12s to 19f.' Sheet wer« penned in average numbers, and bo' c under steady competition at late '.rates, Nc extra j heavy Mjine wethers-or ewes wer< yarded. Heavy<jgsrime we the: a, £1 19s t< «? <<?' Prime' wethers, Xl' I6s U ±1 IBs yd: light , prime wethers, £1 13s 6-: to £1 15s 9d;' heavy prime ewe 3, £' 14s 9d to £1 17s 3d; medium pnm< eK»3, £i 11? to £1 14a Jid: lighi prime ewes. £1 fig 6d to £1 10a 9d; small and unfinished owes. 13s uptrends i/ambs were penned -in full numbers, m< f?'y under steady competition at late rates teas, heavy prime lambs, £1 13 3 to £1 16 ?d for a pen of 6 from Mr. J. B. Jordan jnr., Kaurfapakapa; heavy prime lambs, £ 3 , i° to £1 „ 1 " s W: medium prime lamb £ » 10 £1 I s H.' -light £1 -3 to £1 is 9d small and unfinished 18s to £1 Is 9d. pig were penned in average numbers. Larg< baconers and choppers- wero oasiev in prir. on late Quotations:' al: am** Her pigs sob Mder keen competition a* advanced prices m i' 1 «: r Large .Vdmw and choppers it -° i 5?; to heavy baconers £5 5s 0 *j> 19s ; heavy porkers and ligh baconers, £1 9g to £5 4a; light to njediun porkere, £3 S3 to £4 &3. No store pigs yarded Balgety and Co. report on their sale a' WcstfioW on Tuesday as under:—There to ft smaller market all round, owing no doubi to the sale being bid on, an ou day. lieef: Fnces were easier for prime beef and there was a considerable drop in the price of second quality. Extra prime, £: m' , pn s° fl H, second qualits hard to sell!' ' Ptimn ' ** 6s: other! Sheep: Prices about the samo as last v,„.k, Extra wethers, £2 ss. prime, £2 2s 6d to £2. 35° to 32» to S3SI eWeS ' extra 87s, prime to 32». \ Calves; Small yarding, with wry pool SA Sr- " 10316 £4; «*» Pigs: A keener demand, the better sorts wing up £1 per head., Baconers. ,'2B to £6 0s ; choppers ,£7 to £5; porkers, £4 10s CO *.1 103. ' f « Lambs: A good demand for finished. Ext™, good, 39s * prime 333 to 27s ®d, others lias to Sua MANAWATU. Abraham anu Williams, Ltd.. report:— Un lhorsday we held oar weeidy Palmerston Wortn sale. A good rardmg oi saeep and cattie camo forward. 'J. hero was a poor demand for all classes of stock We ft? 01 ?' lambs. 16a to 21s; small lambs 10s to 1.35; fat cows, £7; fat heifers, £6 2f M;, store cows, £4 ss; cows and caUeß, £6: springing heifers, £10 10s: dairy cows, poor, £7 to £9,; bulls, £3 to £4 15s On Friday we held our weekly Fe'ildinfi sale. A good yarding of sheep arid cattk came fonvard. All classes of sheep, chiefij wethers, showed a sharp decline m prices excepting lambs, which met with a fair do oxand. The cattle all through were dull, We quote: Pit ewes, 325: fat wethers, 325; 2 arid 4-tooth wethers, 28?; good woollj lambs, 21s, 248, to 25s 6d; ansdium lambs los, 163, 17s 7d. to 18s: small lambs, 7s lis, lis 4d, to 14s; fat steers, £12 15s: for ward cows, £5 ss. £7, to .£8 153; stor< cows, £2 10s, £3 ss, to £4 Is; 18-monthi steers, to £4 15a; weaners, 23s to £2; daircows £9 10s. 1 £12, £12 10s, £14, £14 10a £15 2s $d. A herd of 10 cows on account ol Messrs. Kreegher Bro3. sold from £7 to £11 10s. COUNTRY SALES. The Farmers' Cooperative Company, Limited, Hamilton, xepirt :- is in fair supply, with eomewha: im proved demand, Mutton maintains it ground. Disquieting rumours, combinei with wretched weather, have rondsred« th store cattle market practically lifeless; in deed, ono must go back a good many year to find a similar depression. The pani stag*, is, however, generally the mo;-5 to b feared, and as soon as this has pastebusiness will no d .übt return to norma conditions. The market for store shee] shows little alteration. The demand is sti! pood for anything in forward conditio! Tbe»severe weather (ionditions have not bee without effect upon dairy cattle, wliicJ nave appreciably declined. Pigs are cumin forward,in smaller quantities. values arco a par with our last report. We quote :- Bullocks, heavy prime £16 Ids to £18 10: medium £13 to £15; cows, prime fat £12 t £13. medium fat £10 to £11 10s: heifers, fat £10 to £11 ss; 3.~year-old iwlloeks, £9 t £10; cows, fresh-oanditioned £5 to £6 10s good £5 5s to £5 15s; steer 1, -year-old £ 10s to £7, 20-monthß (best) £4 to £5, 2C months_ (medium) £3 to £3 15s; heifer! best £s_Ss to £6 ss, medium £3 15s to £ 10s- dairy cows, best Jerseys £20 to £3E beet Snorthorns £12 to £18; heifers, Jerse (2-year, in calf) £14 to £19. Shorthorn (21 year, m calf) £10 10a to £12 ]oa, Shorthor (?-y«r, in calf) £7 to £8 10s. Sheep Wethers, prmo shorn 35s to 40s. medium 23s to 335; ewes, prime shorn 29* to 33s store wethers, foCr-tooth 31s to 355. two tooth.2Bs to 81s. Pigs: Baconers, £5 t i Os inJ k % o 108 4° £i 108 i we »ners t 1 «n £l 10 J* Kors(»: Heavy draughts £4 to £50. medl £28 1° £35, light £22 t m- harness horses, £12 to £20; hacks, £ O ill. ♦