HAMILTON STOCK SALE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 7

HAMILTON STOCK SALE.

BEEF RATES ADVANCE. Reports on the weekly stock sale at Frankton on Tuesday are:— New Zealand lioa,n and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.—Beef was penned in short supply, and an advance in prices resulted. Fat sheep fully maintained last week's rates. Store cattle and sheep mot with a pood demand. We quote: Prime fat cows and heifers, £7 to £7 19s; lighter, £G Is to £6 7s (id; veal calves. £2 to £2 '2s Gd: 3-year-old steers, in forward condition, £6 3.05; Jersey cross heifers, in calf, £5 15s to £(> ss: yearling Jersey heifers, good quality, £3 15s to .£'4 8s; smaller, £2 l(ls to £'3 2s Gd: dairy cows, at profit, £ll to £l4; springers. £5 10s to £10; fat wethers, £1 10s to £1 12a Gd; lighter, £1 7s; fat hogsets. £1 <ts. A cood yarding of fat and store pigs met with fair competition. Good heavy baconers made £3 10s to £3 18s; heavy baconers, £3 2s to £3 8a; medium. £2 14s to £3; heavy porkers, £2 8s to £2 12s; porkers, £2 2s to £2 ss; stores, £1 12s to £1 17s; slips. £1 4s to £1 8s; weaners, lbs to £1 2s; sows close to profit, £5 10s to £S 10s.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited. —We had a small entry of fat cattle and sheep, which sold well up to the previous week's rates. A fair number of dairy cows and heifers were submitted, nnd there was good competiticJn for choice quality and animals close to profit. A good number of fat pigs were penned and sold at improved values. Stores sold lit late rates. Good quality prime heavy cows brought £7 lis to £7 17s 6d; heavy prime. £6 5s to £7; prime medium weights, £o 10s to £5 196; plain heavy cows, £4 15s to £o 10s; stores, £2 5s to £2 10s; 18-montbs empty S.H. find Shorthorn cross heifers. £2 las to £2 19s; dairy cows and heifers, well forward, £8 10s to £10; good springing ealvers, £9 5s to £lO 10s; medium. £7 to £7 15s; inferior and backward, £3 to £5. Medium fat ewes, 18s; prime woolly hoggets, 245; medium fat wethers, 24s 9d; store to forward 4 and G-tooth wethers, to 24s 2d. Heavy baconers made £3 10s to £3 15s: light, to medium baconers. £3 to £3 sb; heavy porkers. £2 13s to £0 19s; lighter sorts. £2 Gs to £2 10s; heavy choppers. £4 to £4 15s; good stores, 37s to £2 4s: sows due to farrow. £5 to £5 10s; slips. 24s to 295: best weaners, 17s. to 21s; smaller. 10s to 15s.

OTHER COUNTRY SALES. Alfred Buckland and Sons Ltd., report:— During the week we held sales at westheld, Pllkekohe twice, Waitakaruru and Waiotira. and five clearing sales. Dairy cattle are in keen demand and high prices are ruliiip. tfeef is on the upward tendency and there is a steady demand for all classes of store cattle. Beat dairy cons are selling at .£l2 to A" 16 10s; second grade cows, £8 to £11; others, £ 5 15s to £7 15b; aged and inferior, £2 10s to £5; best springing heifers. £lO 10s to £ls 10s; others, £6 10s to £10; small and backward. £4 10s to £6; prime fat cows and heifers, £5 to £1 ss; rough fat and boner cows, £2 5s to £1 15s; light fat steers, £6 15s to £9 12s 6d; empty young cows. £2 10s to £3 10s; store cows, £1 to £2 ss; grown steers in forward condition, £6 to £7; three to four-year-old steers, £4, 15s to £5 ljs (3d; two to three-year-old sfeers, £3 15s to £1 15s: yearling to eighteen-month-old steers, £2 5s to i:3 14s; good calves, £'l 15s to £2 2s; smaller calves, £1 5s to £1 13s; small and weedy calves, 15s to £1 3s, well-bred yearling heifers, £2 10s to £4; heavy bulls, £4 10s to £6; sound young herd bulls, £4 to £7 7s; other bulls, £1 10s to £3 10s. For the time of the year there was a good entry of pigs at Pukekohe and values obtained were on. a par with \Vestneld quotations. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports:—We held sales during the past week at Westfield, Waiuku, Papakura and Kaukapakapa, also two clearing sales. We report good sales, with a keen demand for dairy cows and heifers close to profit, or backward ones of good qualify. Both Mr. A. E. Wntkins, of Takanini, and air. H. fc.. Richardson, of Brookby, whose cows were mostly grade Jerseys had most successful sales, there being large attendances at both these sales. We quote:—Dairy cows and heifers close to profit, .best, £lO to £l6 10s; others, £7 to £9 15s: backward springers, best, £8 to £lO 10s; others £5 to £7 10s; aged cows and inferior heifers. £2 10s to £4 15s; bulls, £2 to £7; empty cows,. £1 10s to £3; boner cows, £2 15s to £3 17s fid; yearling heifers, best, £2 10s to £3 10s: others. 15s to £1 15s: yearling to 18-montiis steers. £2 5s to £3 10s; 2 to 2i-year steers, £3 15s to £4 12s fid: 3 to Si-year steers, £4 15s to £5 12s fid: 4 to 4 J-year steers. £5 15s to .£6 7s fid; grown steers, in forward condition. £G 10s to £7 ss.

RATES AT APDING'TON. STORE SHEEP SELL WELL. " [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHEISTCHURCH. Wednesday. Entries were smaller than usual at Addington market to-day. There was a decided advance in rates for store ewes. Prices for fat sheep were lower by about la Gd per head. Fat cattle were slightly easier. . Store Sheep.—A small entry met. with a brisk sale. A pen of local crossbreds made 31s 5d and North Island crossbreds made 255. Forward wethers sold at 26a Gd to 28s; halfbred wether hoggets, lfia 3d to 18a 4d; crossbred wether hoggets, 10s 6d to 15s: forward crossbred wether hoggets, 17s 7d to 18s 3d; crossbred ewe hoggeta. 22s lOd to 25s 2d; cull crossbred ewe hoggets. 15s 6d ; good crossbred ewes, 31s Sd to 335; F.M. crossbred ewes, 18s to 23s Id; aged crossbred ewes, 10a to 15s fid; forward halfbred wethers. 26s 6d to 28s; halfbred wethers, 17s 9d to 22s Id. Fat Lambs.—A small entry of 700 head. This was the final sale of the export season, and the market was brisk throughout. Extra good lambs made from 31s to 38s lOd; prime, 28s 6d to 30s; medium, 2bs to 2Ss; inferior lambs, 22s Gd to 24s Gd; store lambs made 19s to 225. Fat Sheep.—Values were easier by up to Is a head for best sheep and from Is to 2a for lighter sorts. .Show wethers made 4?s lOd to" 58s Id: extra prime wethers. 37s to 435: prime withers, 32s to 3Gs Gd; medium wethers, 28s to 31s; light wethers. 24s to" 27s 6d; extra prime ewes. 32s to 37s lOd ; prime ewes. 27a to 31s; medium ewes, 22a to 265: light ewes. 17s Gd to 21s; aged ewes. 12s to 17s. Fat Cattle.—There was an entry of 520 head and the sale improved after a. poor start. One line of 12 South Canterbury bullocks averaged £lB 6s Bd. Choice ox beef sold at up to 36s fid per 1001b.; prime, 323 to 34s fid; heavy-weight, 29s to 31s Gd; medium. 29s 6d to 31s; ordinary heifer and good cow beef. 26s to 295; inferior, 24s to 25s 6d. Extra prime heavy steers made £l6 to £l9 7s Gd; prime heavy steers. £l4 to .£ls 15s: prime medium-weight, steers, £ll 10s to £l3 10s; medium quality steers, £8 5s to £ll ss; rough steers, £6 10s to £S; extra prime heifers, to £l3 2s Gd; prime heifers, £8 to £lO 103; medium heifers, £6 5s to £7 15s; light heifers, £4 5s to £6; extra prime cows, £l2; prime cows, £7 to £9; medium cows, £1 10s to .£6 15s; aged cows, £3 to £4. Vealers.—There wns a small entry of poor quality. Good sorts sold well. Twelve to 18-months sorts made to £6; vealers, from £2 10s to £5 ss; calves, Ss to 37s 6d. Dairy Cattle.—Best second to fourth cnivers," £9 to £l3; medium. £6 10s to £8 JAs; inferior, £3 10s to £5 10s; best heifers, i'G to £9 ss: others. £3 to £5 10s. Store Cattle.—A pen of three and fourytoar Hereford steers made £8 10a, and ft peu of three and four-year Black PolledHereford steers. £8 15s. A small line of 18months Shorthorn steers brought £4 7s fid. Fat Pigs.-—Values were unaltered. Choppers made £3 to £5 18a Gd; baconers, £3 5s to £i 18 Gd (average price per lb.. s}d to 6id): porkers. 44s to 61s (average price per lb., 7d to Bd).' Store Pigs.—A feature of the market was a line of eight purebred Tamworth sows, which made Signs, to lOlfnis. There was a ready snle for most classes. Slips brought 21s to 2:1s; atortw, 30s to 41s; extra large stores, to 'l6s. SOUTH SEA WHALE OIL, FALL IN THE MARKET RATE. It was recently reported from Copenhagen that the Norwegian Association of Whalers had sold its South Sea production of whale oil to European liuyers at £27 a ton for the best, quality, which is between £6 and £7 less than the price obtained last year. The whole production is estimated at 380.000 casks. Of this quantity 90,000 casks were, however, sold at an earlier date at £3O, and 37.000 casks a little later at, £23. The average price for last year's output wns £33 15s 5d for the best quality, and apart from the great reduction in the price this year the enhancement in the value of tbe Norwegian krone will further considerably reduce the profit on whaling. LONDON WOOL SALES. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having received the following cablegram from their London house, dated June 28:—The following vessels in which we are interested have arrived in tune for the wool sales; Hororata. Mahia, Maimoa, Pakelia, Somerset, Taiuui. Anglo-Colorri-hian, Delphic, Horatius. We will soil on July 7, 15 and 20. The, Bank of New Zealand has been advised by its London office that the list of arrivals for the fourth series rtf sales, commencing on July 5, closed on June 27, and that the last ship to be included was the Northumberland.