STOCK SALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 9

STOCK SALES.

VALUES AT PUKEKOHEi'

KEEN DEMAND FOR PIGS. - [FROM OUR . OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] PUKEKOHE. Friday. A stock sale was conducted by Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons at Pukekohe yesterday. There was only a small yarding'of dairy cows and heifers, the best of which brought from £0 10s to £7 'los. In beef, heavy cows and heifers made from £5 to £5 17s Od; lighter prime, £3 to £4 15s; older and boner cow 6, 10s to £2; light prime steers, £5 7s Gd to £5. 15s; bulls, £1 to £4 4s. Jersey heifer calves brought 16s. to £1 7s Cd, and shorn store lambs 4s 6d to Gs 9d.

There was a full yarding of pigs, for which competition Was very keen, with the result that all classes sold readily.—Choppers made from £1 5s to £2 ss, according to weight: heavy prime baconers, £2 3s to £2 7s; medium, £1 16s to £2 Is; light. £lsp lis to £1 lis; heavy porkers, £1 Gs to £1 9s; light and medium. 18s to £1 4s; best stores. 14s to l§p; slips, 9s to 12s; suckers and weaners. 4s to 8s; sows due to farrow, £1 10s to £2 30s There were a few pedigree boa™. Berkshires brought- fiorn £1 4s to £5 ss, an 1 Large Whites from 4gna to 4Jgns. PRICES AT MAT AM ATA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MATAMATA, Friday. Dalgefy and Company, Limited, held their usual fortnightly stock sale at Matamata this week, when small yardings of all classes of stock came forward. Prices were: Cattle: Light fat cows, £2: light Jersey cows, £1 his; store cows, £1 2s Od to £1 6s; boner cows, 15s to X'l. Pigs: Light baconers. £1 Us; porkersi. £1 3s to £1 Gs; choppers, £1 Is; lort'e stores, ir,s : slips, 7s to 9s <>d: weaners, 6s fid; small weaners, •4s to 4s od. Sheep: Small black-faced lambs, ss; full-mouth ewes, 2s lid to 4s Id. WHANGAREI VALUES. [FROJI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WHAXGAREI, Friday. . The Xort'.i Auckland Farmers' Co-opera-tive Auctioneering Company reports that a very successful sheep fair was held at Paparoa yesterday. Buyers v, ere present from Hamilton, l'ukekohe and Warkworth and competition was keen for all classes of sheep. Tv.o-tooth wethers made from 7s 3d to 8s 9d; four-tooth wethers, 9s 3d to 9s 6d; two-tooth ewes, good, lis Gd to 12a 3d; medium, 9s to 10s 6d; small, 7s to 8s Id; four-year ewes, Gs 5d to 7s 3d; fiveyear ewes, 4s 9d to 5s 4d; older ewes, 3s 3d to 4s Gd; good Romney lambs, 4g 9d to 5s 8d: Southdown lambs. 4s 2d to Gs; medium Romney lambs, 4s to 4s 8d; small lambs. 3s to 3s lOd; two-tooth Romney rams. 15s 9d to £1 lis 6d; aged Romney rams. 2s to 10s: two-tooth Southdown rams, £2 2s to £3 8s 3d; inferior bred two-tooth Southdowns, £1 Is to £1 16s 9d. GISBORNE SHEEP MARKET. [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] .GISBORNE. Friday. The sheep market to-day remained firm. The store sheep yarding of 10,480. was larger than usual, and there were insufficient pens to cope with the offering. Fat sheep prices were firm at last week's values, ewes going to 7s Gd. and second grades to 6s 6d. In the f=tore sheep section, the top price was lis Id for 100 two-tooths in good condition. Another line of 153 four, eix and eight-tooth made Ids. Ewes up to five years made from 5s 4d to S. J . Spring ewes were firm from. Gs 2d to lis Id. according to condition. Wethers made from 7s Id to 8s lOd. Pigs showed an improvement, weaners realising Gs, slips 9s, porkers 19s Gd, and stores 12s. PRICES AT EEILDING. [BV TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FEILDIXG, Friday. At the slock sale to day fat sheep advanced on late rates. There was a good demand for breeding ewe». Store lambs were not so keenly sought. Fat ewes brought to '9s 6d; fat wethers, to 15$; fat two-tooths, lis 3d: fat lambs, to 16s. Slores: Black-faced lambs, woolly, to 9s 6d; ewe lambs, 9s 4d; wether lambs, Gs lOd; breed.ing ewes, two-tooth, 15s Gd; four-tooth, lis; four-year. 9s 2d; five-year. 8s 9d. Dairy cattle: Holstein cows, in milk. £'G 6s; springing cows, to £5 10s; springing heifers, £4 7s 6d; fat cows, £3 14s; fat bullocks, £6 3s. TE AWAMUTU PRICES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Hamilton, report on tho weekly stock sale held at Te Awamutu on Thursday as follows:—Cattle: An average number of cattle was yarded, .including several pens of fat bullocks. Competition was steady and values fully up to 'recent quotations were realised for ail classes. A number of store cowa sold at slightly improved rates. Quotations:—Fat bullocks. £5 3s ;o £s' 17s; lighter Quality, £3 18s to £5; fat cows, £2 15s to £3 17s 6d; lighter quality, £2 8s to £2 13s; light and unfinished. £1 10s to £2 ss; killable, £1 10s to £1 15s; stores, 19s to £1 7s; boneis, 14s to 18s; potter bulls, £2 16s to £4; others, £1 15s to £2 10s; good heifer calves, £1 9a to £1 17s; others, 18s to £1 ss. Sheep: An unusually heavy yarding of store ewes and lambs met with very ken competition and practically the whole yarding changed hands at prices in advance of ruling quotation's. Fat sheep were in fair demand, values being about on a par with Frankton rates. Quotations:—Average quality fat wethers, 8s 2d to 9s 6d; fat hoggets, 12b 4d: fat lambs, 9s 2d to 10s 6d; others, 8s 6d to 9s; fat ewes, Gs 7d to 7s Gd; others, 5s Gd to Gs 3d: good store lambs, 7s 8d to 8s; average quality. 6s 10d to 7s Gd; 354 lambs made 7s 7d; others. 5s to 6s 3d; poor, 4s 3d to ss; average 6tore wethers, 8s to 8s lid; good ewen, 8s to 10s; average, 6s 6d to 7s 9d; poor. 4s Gd to 6s; Southdown rams, 2]gns to 4igns; others, Ijgns to 2]gns. Pigs: ' There was an average yarding, comprising mostly stores and weaners. Bidding was fairly brisk and prices showed no variation on late rates. Quotations:—Heavy porkers, £1 5s to £1 8s; light porkers, £1 to £1 3s; ~ large stores, 10s to 18s; smaller, 10s to 15s; slips, Gs to 9s; weaners, 4s to ss. CLEVEDON QUOTATIONS. The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, held its second sheep fair at Clevedon yesterday. More than the advertised liuniber of sheep came forward. There was an improved demand for all classes of store sheep and values advanced on late sales from Is Gd to 2s a head. Four-tooth and six-tooth ewes sold at from 8s to ]Os fid: four and five-year-old. 7s to 93 Gd; small ewes, 4s to 6s 6d. No extra good two-tooth ewes were penned. Small two-tooth ewes sold at from 7s to 10s; store wethers, 7s 6d to 10s Gd; best store lambs, Gs 6d to 8s Gd; others, 4s to 63 3d. There was no improvement, in the demand for rams, late values ruling for all sorts. RATES AT HIKUTAIA. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company. Ljmited, reportAt the Hikutaia ■sale on Wednesday, we penned an average yarding of cattle and sheep, and a small yarding of pigs. Ruling rates were maintained on all classes. * Quotations: Store pigs. 14s Gd to los Gd; sows in pig, £2 to £2 10s; store ewes, 3s to 3s !Jd; store lambs, 5s to 0s 4d; culls. 3s to 4s 4a; fat cows, £2 to £3 13s; light fat cows. £1 8« to £1 .JGs; fresh store cows. 19s to £1 4s; boners. 5a to IGs; potter bulls, heavy, £3 to £3 7s; others. £1 IGs to £2 IGs; heifer calves. 14s to 15s. HAMILTON STORE SHEEP. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report, having held their Frankton sale on Wednesday, when only a medium yarding came forward. All classes of eheep were keenly sought after with prices firm at ruling rates. QuotationsMixed sex store Ronuiev lambs. 8s; forward conditioned black-face lambs, 5s 6d to Gs; cull lambs, 4s to 4s 4d; four, six-tooth and four-year ewes, to 10s 4d; sound-mouth ewes, Gs 3d to 7s 3d; small two-tooth ewes, 8s 9d to 9s 0d; forward-conditioned ewes, 4s Gd; Southdown rams, lgn, to l}gns. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their weekly sale of etore sheep at Frankton saleyards on Wednesday. There was a moderate yarding and good competition at advanced prices on late rates. Good, forward lambs fetched 0s 6d to 7s Od; store shorn lambs. 4s Sd; cull shorn lambs, 3s 8d: a line of 290 two.tooth ewes. 6s fid: 140 fix and eight-tooth ewes, 3s 4d: 280 sound-mouthed ewes, 8j: 110 Lincoln-cross failing-mouth ewes, 7s 4d; cull ewes, os; I aged and inferior ewes. 2s 9<l to ;!s 3d.

TE KUITI SHEEP PRICES. Dalgety rind Company. Limited. report having held the nfiiial fortn'aht'v ="'e "I 1 Te Kuiti, when a good yarding ui sheep enme forward to meet the s;>i:'iud competition from a large bench of Huyc's from all parts 6f the King Country and also from the '"Waikato. A feature of the yarding was two-tooth wethers, on account of varioiia vendors, tiie sheep being .wellgrown and in particularly, Zood condition. They wore the subject of animated competition, in fact, prices for- all classes of sheep were n distinct improvement oft the sheep fairs. Quotations:—Two-tooth wethers. 9s 9d to lis 2d; small wethers. £« to 7s; aged ewes. 3s Id to Ga ~d; medium shorn wether lambs, 5s 4d to 5s 9d; ECiaU mixed sex lambs, 2s 4d t».4s: Southdown rams, to 2|gn». ...