COUNTRY STOCK SALES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 9

COUNTRY STOCK SALES

MORRINSVILLE VALUES SMALL YARDING OF SHEEP PRIME STEERS TO £ls/1/A small yarding of sheep met with steady competition from a good bench of buyers at tho Alorrinsvillo stock sale. Prices remained lirm at late rates. Tho auctioneers report as follows: Tho Fanners' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited.—Tho entry of ox beef included two pens of prime medium-weight steers offered on uccourit of Messrs. Howie Brothers, Mojrinsville, which sold under keen competition, urutfiiifff ill 17m (id. Light Jersey steers from Mr. R. Ramsay, Morrinsville, realised ill is, while two prime runners from the same vendor sold for £1) 1(M and £8 respectively. No choice cow und heifer beef was penned, and a keen sale resulted for second quality cattle. Fat Jersey and boner cows also sold at Improved prices. Potter hulls realised fully equal to schedule values, while for a' medium entry of service bulls satisfactory prices were realised. Yearling and two-y(sar-old Jersey heifers were penned in smaller numbers, and although the quality was medium, a good inquiry existed at riilinsr quotations. A full yarding of dairy cattle came forward, the entry being of mixed quality. A number of choice quality heifers, close to profit, created keen competition and sold at late rates. Other classes of poorer quality and backward calves were not in keen demand and prices were easier. Calved heil'ers also mot a (rood market for quality cattle, A small entry of dairy cows realised satisfactory prices. The largest entry of fat pigs yarded this season came forward to-day, a full i,ench of export buyers being in attendance, and competition for baconers and porkers was very spirited, values realised being on a par with recent quotations. A full yarding of stores ar.d weaners was entered and although competition was not keen values for largo stores remained firm on last week's quotations, while slips and weaners were hard to quit. Sheep: Forward conditioned shorn hoggets, to 'JOfl Id; fat woolly hoggets, 10s to 21s; store hoggets, 15s to 17s (Id; fullmouth ewes with lambs at foot, tos, all counted. Cattle: Medium prime steers, £l4 r>s to £lO Is; light fat Jersey steers. £0 Is; prime runners, £8 to £0 Ids; heavy Jersey cows, £8 :is to £8 7s; medium fat cows and heifers, £0 Ids to £7 15s; fat Jersey cows, £5 10s to £(! Ks; killablo cows ii 4 Ids to £» ss; heavy boner cows, £3 12s to £1 (is; medium, £2 15* to £3 8s; light, £2 to £2 1 Lis; cull cows, 10s to 255; potter bulls, £ 1 10s to *8 ss; two and three-year service bulls, £0 15s to £l3 10s; yearling service bulls. £5 to £7 10s; yearling Jerseycross heifers, £4 2s fid to £4 7s; smaller £2 15s to £3 IDs; two-year Jersey heifers, £3 Jss to £4 7s (id; Jersey heifers and slips, £2 12s (Id to £3 7s (Jd. Dairy cattle: Best springing heifers, £0 10s to £l2 10s; others, £0 10s to £8; poorer conditioned and lato calvers, £4 5s to £5 15s; best heifers in milk, £7 to £0 10s; other heifers in milk. £4 15s to £0; springing cows, £0 to £8 10s; cows in milk, £4 15s to £7-. Pigs: Heavy choppers, £3 10s to £4 10s; others. 36s to £3 3s; heavy baconers, £3 14s to £3 10s; medium, £3 Os to £3 12s; light, £3 Bs to £,'s 7s; butter-milk pigs and heavy porkers. X'2 Ms to 13 Is; medium porkers, £2 8s to £2 12s; light, £2 2s to £2 Os; unfinished porkers. 3(>s to £2; largo stores, 34s to 3Ss (Id; medium, 20s to 325; good slips. 25s to 31s; others. 20s to 23s sd; best weaners, 18s to 2ls; others, 10s (id to 15s (id: sows to farrow, £3 (is to £3 7s od._ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports an average yarding of beef, the entry including Homo unfinished ox beef. Competition was fair, values being well up to last week's quotation. A large offering of store steers did not attract much attention and practically the entire offering was passed in. A large yarding of yearling Jersey heifers also met with a poor inquiry, only a few sales being effected at lower rates. Yearling bulls did not reach vendors' reserves and most of these were passed in. A full entry of store and boner cows were sold under fair, competition, late rates being maintained. Light fat ox, £lO 10s to £lO 15s; heavy Jersey cows. £7 5s to £7 15s; medium. £0 10s to £. Qr Od; lighter, £5 15s to £0 2s Od; fat heifers. t'7 to £8; lighter, £0 2s Od to £0 12s Od; killablo cows, £5 to £5 12s Od; heavy store cows. £4 5s to £4 12s Od; lighter conditioned, £3 12s Od to £4; heavy boners. £2 18s to £3 10s; lighter, £1 10s to £2 ss; cull cows. 15s to £1 2s (id; medium quality yearling Jersey heifers, £3 Ids to £3 17s Od; small, up to £2 10s; Shorthorn steers, up to £5 10s; grade Jersey hulls, iiii 12s (id to £10; yearlings, £5 to £5 10s. Dalgety and Company, Limited, reports a good yarding of cattle, consisting mostly of Jersey and Jersey-cross fat cattle. Competition was keen and lute rates were maintained throughout. Htore and boner rattle also met with a good demand, values remaining at late rates. Light fat Jersey bullocks, £0 15s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £7 Os to £7 15s; good fat young Jersey cows and heifers, £0 to £7; forward conditioned cows, £4 12s (id to £5 IPs; heavy boners, £3 15s to £4 7s; others, 30s to £3 12s, according to weight and condition; potter bulls, £4 10s to £(>, Competition on store cattle was again very limited. Fair quality yearling Polled Angus steers, £3 15s; sound young cows, £2 10s to £3; empty three-year heifers, £2 15s to yC'H ss; yearling Jersey heifers, fair quality, £3 10s to £4 Is; service bulls. £7 to £0 Ids. Pigs: A small yarding, prices remaining at lnte rates. Heavy porjeers, £*2 15s to £3 3s; buttermilk pigs, £2 10s to £2 18s; licrht porkers. €1 18s to £2 10s; good store pigs, 28s to 325: slips. 18s to 245: weaners. 10s to 15s.

TRECARNE JERSEY STUD SUCCESSFUL DISPERSAL SALE Newton. King, Limited, field a successful dispersal sale of the Trecarne Jersey Stud, the property of Miss A. M. Norton. Pukekura, Cambridge. An extremely large attendance of breeders was present from all parts of the province, the various lots being well distributed. The manner in which the cattle came forward reflected credit on the vendor. The following are the individual lots, together with the names of purchasers:—Cows: Royton Coronation Gown, to A. G. C'oxhead, Te Awamutu, I7gns; Royton Fairy Primrose, to Bates Bros., Gordonton, llgns; Pencarrow May Queen, to R. J. Shaw, Ohaupo, lOgns; Ivoiidale Scotch Heath, to Coo Bros., lie Kawa, 21gns; Cecil's Pasadena, to Coe Br6s., Te Kawa, 21%gnf<; Hua Brook Diana, to R. J Wilson, Putnruru, lugns; Hua Brook Approval.'to W. J. Dixon, Ohaupo, 13gns: Hua Brook Patch, to W. J. Mears, Ngarua, 35gnsj Hua Brook Belva, to E. 11. Scott, Matamala, 1 'i'/jgns; Fern Dell Valeria, to H. A. Luiman, Otorohajiga. 30gns; Trecarne Fairy Dell, to Bates Bros., Gordonton, 10 l / 3 gns. Heifers: Trecarne Seadown Freda, to J. Jones, Cambridge, 12Vagns; Trecarne Prude's Poppy, to J Forlong, Morrinsville, IGVitrns; 'lrecarne White Heather, to A. G. Coxhead To Awamutu, 20gns; Trecarne Forward Lady Lva. Coo Bros., To Kawa. 13gns; Trecarne You 11 Do Larinda, G. Thomas. Monavale, 13giis; Trecarne Forward Gay Girl, W. J. Dixon, Ohaupo, l'.il'agns. Yearling heifers made sgns to lfigns, and heifer calves '-"igns to 10, a gns. Yearling bulls: Trecarne Challenger to C. \ Moore, Walton, 10gns; Trecarne Llanberis. to D M. Bourke, Pukeiniro. HlVattns; Irecarnc Bean Cavalier, to R. Smith Ie Awamutu. 20'.tens; Trecarne Lord victor to Hardy estale, Pukekura, 'JOgns; two-year bull, Trecnrne Forward Chief. <o TSative Department, Rotorua, !2aprris; herd sire, ruhitarata Forward Boy. to Native Department. Roto rua. 4 isprnH DEMAND AT TE PUKE [HV TEI-K(!UAPH OWN CORUKRPONDKNT ] TE PUKE, Friday The Npw Zealand Loan and Mercantile \gency Company, Limited, reports that beef cattle'were slightly easier at Te Puke. Store cattle sold well at late rates. Dairy cattle were in good demand and values remained very firm. Fat [tigs continued to come forward in small numbers and prices realised were enual to ruling schedule rates. Slips and weaners were very keenly sought and prices for (hese were high in comparison to I lie larger pins. Fal Holstein and S'horthorn cows. CO (is to £8 (is; lighter fat cows, £4 •_>s <i(l to £5 Ids; storo cows. £3 t-ls to .CI 7s; light boner cows, CI 12s to £2 2s; three-year Holstein steers, £8 10s; two-year empty Jersey heifers, £■ 1 7«; choice quality Jersey heifers, to £ 12 ss; other Jersey heifers. CD to CO; dairy cows. £5 15s to CD ss. Pigs: Medium licavy baconers, £3 Os to £3 tu.s; liffht baconers. C2 12s od to £3; heavy baconers, £2 '2s to £2 8s; light iiorkers, .CI I'2s to J-'I 17s; slins, £1 4s to £1 10s; woaiurs, His (Id to £1 ss. TE AWAMUTU QUOTATIONS Dulgety and Company, Limited, reports a medium yarding of sheep and a full yarding of all classes of cattle at To Awamuiu, The sheep yarding was composed practically entirely of good conditioned hoggets, which were all sold under the hammer. Competition was not very keen, sales being slightly below vendors' expectations:—Fat woolly ''hoggets, IDs to 235; fat and forward, 12s to ir>s (Id; mixed sex fat two-tooths, 13s to 15s. ]n (he cattle competition whs particularly keen, vendors meeting a ready market at prices slightly in advance of recent Frankion sales. Principal sales in the beef seclion were as follows: —On account Mr. C. F Storey, !l Polled Angus bullocks, I'll 2s (id; on account Mr. A. L. Storey, 0 Hereford bullocks, £l'-'; on account Mrs. D. Moorliead, 4 Polled Angus bullocks, £l3 12s (id; on account Mr. P. C. Hoban, 3 Polled Angus heifers, £ 11 17s (Id; on account Mr. ,T. 1?. Kay, 2 Polled Anjrus heifers, £8 IDs. Heavy fat Jersey cows,> £7 '-is (id to £8 7s (id; lighter, £ft Isf to . £(i 7s; heavy boners, .£3 17s to £4 13s; medium. C2 :is to c;t 7s (id; lighter, 25s to £2. A few pens or tsh>re cattle, in which very little interest was shown, were yarded. Yearling heifers were yarded in shorter numbers, good heifers selling from CI IDs to £5 IDs; others C2 5s to c:t 18s. There was a# big yarding in the bull section, prices being on a imr with recent bull sales. Two-year Polled Angus bulls, logos to Isgns; others. to OV.cns; good two-year Jersey bulls, from 18 to £10; other mixed ages, £J ins to C 7' well-grown good quality yearlinc Jersey bulls, 15* to £lO ss. Dairy cattle were yarded In small numbers, quality being some-

what mixed. Good quality springing heifers, £H 10s to £'lo log; smaller and more backward sorts, £5 10« to £7 15s; quality Jersey cows,; close to profit, £8 JOh to £0 IGb; others, £(> fib to £'B. A goad yarding of fat came forward with a very full yardin«r of stores arid wcuners. All classes of fat pigs sold freely at prices well on a par with late quotations. Stores and weaners opened up brightly, but declined slightly toward the end of the sale owing to the exceptionally heavy yarding. Prime heavy baconers, £3 12s to £ft 15s; heavy, £.3 7s to £3 12si medium heavy baconers, £1) 2b to £3 7s; heavy buttermilk pigs to light baconers, £2 17s to £li '_'s; buttermilk pigs, £2 12s to £'2 17s; heavy porkers, £2 8s to £2 12s; medium porkers, £2 2s to £2 8s; light porkers, :»(« to £2 2s; large store pigs, 32s to 38s; medium, 2fls to 325; small, 20s to 2'is; hest slips, 28s to 345; medium, 24s to 28s; small, 20s to 245; hest weaners, ISs to 245; medium, 15s to 10s; small, 12s to Ids; choppers, £2 10s to £3 fa; sows to farrow, £3 to £4 15s; maiden Berkshire boars, £4 to £5 ss; sows with Utters, £0 ss. PAPAKURA OFFERING The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports a moderate yarding at Papakura. There was a keen inquiry for beef cattle and herd bulls. Store rattle, however, were dull of sale. Fat cows and heifers brought £4 15s to £8 17a fid; others, £3 15s to £4 12s 6d; boner cows, £2 5s to £3 15s; poor condition, 10s to £1 15s: yearling heifers, £2 10s to £4 7s fid; best dairy cows and heifers, £8 to £lO 12s (id; medium, £5 10s to £7 lOss aged cows and inferior heifers, £2 10s to £4 15s; herd bulls, £5 to £O. • FEILDINC CATTLE FAIR [by TEI/KGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] FEILDINQ. Friday A yarding of nearly 5000 head came forward at tho Feilding cattle fair. The market was slow at times, but exceptionally good for top quality lines. Tho clearance was good in spite of high reserves. Sheep sold at unchanged rates. 'Run cattle: Three-year Hereford steers, £0 lis to £0 15s; Polled Angus, £8 17s 7d to £10; four to five-year HereJord bullocks, £ll 2s Od; two-year steers, best, £8 15s to £0 ss; others, £0 15s to £7 14s; three-year heifers, £0 Os to £7 7s; good two-year, £7 lis; others, £4 10s to £0 ss; extra good yearling Polled Angus steers, £0 10s to £7 Is; smaller, £4 5s io £H; yearling heifers, £4 5s to £5 ss; empty cows, £4 lis to £5 8s; yearling Jersey heifers, £1 2s to £0 15s; run cows and calves, £4 to C 4 Os. Fat cattle: Prime cows, £0 to £lO His; light, £(i to £8 15s; heifers, £7 15s. Fat sheep: Wethers, 22s to 25s fVt; ewes, prime, 20s fld to 24s 3d; light, 13s (id to 18s; hoggets, prime. 25s to»27s «d; others, 10s 5d to 24s 3d. Store sheep: Ewe hoggets, best, 30s lOd to 34b 3d; others, 2(18 to 20s 3d; wethers, 17s 7d to 235; ewes with lambs, 16s to 10s Bd. STORE PIGS DEARER [by telegraph—own correspondent] OPOTIKI, Friday The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited reports " average vardinpj of pi&s &t Opotiki. These sold well under good competition. Stores and sup# were keenly competed for and there was a sharp advance on late rates. Heavy baconers made to £3 Is; medium baconers, £3 to £3 28; heavy porkers, £2 7s to £2 Us; lighter porkers, £2 2s to £2 ss; large stores, 37s to £2; smaller stores, 30s to 355; Kood slips, 25s fid to 31s; good weaners. to 245; smaller sorts, to 18s Od.

FREEZING OPERATIONS SOUTH OTAGO YEAR INCREASE IN COSTS [by telegraph,—OWN correspondent] DUNEDIN, Friday The highly satisfactory outcome of the past year's operations was referred to at the annual meeting of the South Otago Freezing Company, Limited today by the chairman of directors, Mr. P. MeSkimming. The chairman stated that the company killed 317,223 sheep and lambs last season, as compared with 251,774 in the previous year. The 1937-38 season was no doubt the driest that the district had experienced in the past 30 odd years, and in the early part of the year it looked as though killings were going to be seriously affected. From the opening of works in the middle of December, however, until the closing in the first week of June, approximately three weeks earlier than last year, the company was kept killing to capacity and finished with a total of 60,450 in excess of the 1936-37 season. "Taking into consideration the increase in costs and the decrease in the value of the by-products, mainly tallow, which dropped by fuily 30 per cent, I think the financial position of the company is quite satisfactory," Mr. MeSkimming added.

SEARCH FOR OIL MOTUROA COMPANY THOROUGHNESS OF TEST Efforts being made to discover payable oil in New Zealand were reviewed by Mr. J. W. G. Brodie, chairman of directors of Moturoa Oil Pields, Limited, at the annual meeting in Wellington on Thursday. Mr. Brodie expressed the satisfaction of the directors at the successful outcome of the protracted negotiations which had resulted in linking the company up with the operations of powerful overseas concerrts, which had decided to test the potential oil fields of the Dominion. The passing of the Petroleum Act, 1937, was an important factor which had given an impetus to the search for oil. Drilling in the East Coast district had already been commenced bv the New Zealand Petroleum Company, Limited, and surveys were being made in Taranaki. He emphasised that under the agreements entered into and the exchange of shares with Taranaki (N.Z.) Oil Fields, N.L., the Moturoa Company now had an interest in any results that (night bo obtained from substantial areas on both the East Coast and the West Coast. The Moturoa Company was thus placed in a particularly favourable position, as it stood to benefit both directly and indirectly from the disi eovery of oil on either coast. Judging by the operations that had already been commenced, if oil was in New Zealand the efforts now being made should ensure that it would be found, and if this did occur the company should be able ! to look forward to very substantial returns. 1 Mr. Brodie paid a tribute to the work jof Sir Colin Eraser, chairman of | directors of Taranaki (N.Z.) Oil ; Fields, N.L., who had been most helpi ful to the Moturoa Company; also to the work of Mr. Charles N. Taylor, managing director of the Moturoa Com- | pan.v, in connection with the successful ! arrangements made. ! WHEAT, FLOUR AND SUGAR LONDON. Oct. 20 Wheat. —Cargoes are dull. Parcels are steady. Futures —London: October, 2Ms 8d a quarter; November, 22s lid. Liverpool: October, 4s lOgd a cental; December, 4s 7jjd; March, _4s 7id; May. 4s 7Jd. Spot trade easier. Australian, ex ship, 20s. Flour, Australian, ex store, 23s to 23s od. Raw sugar, beetroot basis, 5s 2jd a cwt. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET CHICAGO, Oct. 20 Wheat. — December. tSSJ cents n bushel; May, 674 cents; July, 67 cents. NEW PRIVATE COMPANY The following nrivnte company has been registered in Auckland: — Manawaru Stores, Limited, provision merchants. Capital, i' 2500 in £1 shares. Subscribers: Mrs. 0. A. Tyrie and Miss K. E. Arnold, 1215 shares each; K. W. A. Tyrie, 10. PROPERTY AUCTIONS Samuel Viiile nnd Sons, Limited, reporthiivinur sold ill miction at ifs rooms, Queen Street, veslerdiiy. si house in two tints, at 7 nnd !> Hector Street. Heme Bay, at 4MOIO Other properties were sold as follows; House of five rooms, ,V> Koraha Street, Renmera. at £780; hoiiffi of four rooms, Park Avenue, Otuliuhu, at A property at Epsom and one in Ponsonby Hoad did not reach the reserre.