STOCK SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18862, 10 November 1924, Page 5

STOCK SALES.

KING COUNTRY STOCK REPORT.

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Te Kuiti, report as follows on stock sales last week at Taumarunui, Otorohanga and Matiere:—At Taumarunui we had a iair yarding of both sheep and cattle and have to report a good clearanoe at late rates. Quotations: Shorn fat ewes. 29s 6d; fat. woolly hoggew. 86s 6d; medium m.s. hoggets, 82s 6d; small hoggets, 225; 3-year steers, £& 7s; 2year steers, small, £3 4s; better sorts to £3 15s; yearling steers. £3 7s 6d, £3 9s to £3 12s Cd: store cows, £2, £2 10s to £2 16s; forward cows, £3 6s; dairy cows, good Borts £6. £8 10s to £10; rough quality, £2 5s to £4. At Otorohanga we bad a fair yarding of sheep and full yarding of cattle. Quotations: Shorn fat wethers to 85s; woolly hoggets, small. 27s 6d: shorn m.s. Southdown. 2-tooth, 255; 2-toqth ewes, shorn, to 295; fat cows, light. £3 16s to £4 6s; yearling steers, small. £1 10s, £1 12s -6d to £2 ss; others to £2 10s: 2-year heifers, £2 2s: good yearling Jersey heifers, £|; rough sorts, 85s to £2 10s; yearling Hereford heifers, small, £1 10s to £1 11a; dairy cows, rough sorts, £8 to £4. At Matiere we had a good yarding of both sheep and cattle all of. which met with a ready demand, and. with the exception of one lino of steers and a few rough dairy heifers, everything ohanged hands. QuotaSi 011 ? i FJ&. V°°lly ewes, 85 per cent, of lambs, 88s 6d; rough f.m. woolly ewes with 100 per cent, of lambs, 89s 6d to 40s Id; shorn store ewes, 19s; 4-year bullocks, £6 10s to £6 12s 6d; rough 8-year bullocks, £4 16s; forward cows, £2 16s. £S, £3 2s to £3 4s; good 2-year Steers passed at £4 14s; others sorts sold, £8 5b to £8 19s; yearling steers small, £9, *2 2s to £2 17s; yearling heifers, 80s to 85s; dairy cows, £4 10s to £7; Holstein bulls. 4gns., 7Jgns., to Bgns. Abraham and Williams, Limited report:— At Taumarunui on Tuesday our yarding comprised 1037 sheep, 403 head of cattle and 75 pigs. Although competition in some cases was not quite as brisk as at recent sales P rl ces w ere J" 6 *! maintained and praotically everything changed hands. Quotations: Vat ewes, 82s; store wethers, 80s to 83s 3d j hoggets, 85; to 86s Id; wether hoggets, 82s; M.S. hoggets, 26s 9d to 27s 6d (all in wool); M.-A. ewes and wethers, 275; M.A. ewes With lambs at foot, 88a to 47s 7d: poor conditioned, 29s 6d; light fat bullock, £6 lis to £7 6s; fat cowb, £4 10s to £6; 3 and 4-year steers, £6 9s to £5 17s 6d; 2-year steers £8 8s to £4; yearling steers, 25s to £2 15s; store cows, £1 to 355; fresh conditioned to £d 15s; empty heifers, 20s to £2 15s; MS weanere, 26s to 30s; dairy cows, £2 10s to £5; springing heifers (late), £2 10s to £4; bulla and stags, 12s 6d to £8 10s; weaner Pigs, 10s to 20s; slips to 225. At Owhango on Tuesday stock came forward well up to advertised numbers and a good clearance was made at prices equal to those ruling at other centres. QuotaJj, on inL. lira »° rk S»..Bl«: weaner pigs. Os '°J. 8 »' M - S - coolly hoggets. 35s 9d; 4to 5-year ewes with lambs at toot, 39s 6d to 39s 7d; empty 2 r year heifers, 30s to £3 2s 6dSfflfla c l arv es..32B to £2 Is; empty cows, oulls £2 lfi» : t d n aI X COWB - 11 * 3 10s to £6 10s I?',? 2 16b to *£} 3ma H weaners, 17s. mgs of both sheep and cattle of which a good clearance was made. We quote MA £ \ * 6d: fat ewea < Bh ornJ 24s 6d; yearling steers, £2 Is to £2 16s : to^^hid? 8 ' 32 " 6d; St ° re cows ' *! MANAWATU. to Da |?^ 7 i, and Com JP an .y. Limited, Palmerston .North, report having a small entry of IS™ .» a larg V a i dinß: n o , f cattle at their 1! eliding sale on Friday. The following are quotations :~Light fat shorn wethers! sL 6d %J -R-P ; f £j Bhorn eyes 25s Id, 26s 6d to f/s, B.K. hoggets, 26s to 81b 8d- wofW fewfr,*" M to'Bla 6d; crossbred ing. heifers. £4 6s to £5; Jersey-Crofs springing heifers, to £7; good yearW Jersey-Cross heifers to £3 14s; ■rough yeartoL Bte J a r VV d to p 8 5 8: "WSSffld steers. £8 Ib; 2-year P.A. steers, £4 19s.

WOOL SALES AT ANTWERP. A. and N.Z. ANTWERP. Nov. 7. n f^Li h lT ool i Sal ?. B da * 4800 bal es were *hln M- o ?}* abou t 1600 bales were sold. StKiISSL catlsln S »"iy lots to be withdrawn. Merinos were fully on a par with September prices. Crossbreds advanced five per cent.