COMMERCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15956, 18 October 1922, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

MATAWHERO STOCK SALI

There was a small attendance nt the saleyards to-day, and the bidding was dull. 'Hie yardillgs were small in all classes.

Fat sheep principally comprised owes, 19s 4d being the best price. A small pen of wethers sold at 22s 6d. Tiie pigs were chiefly weaners, a good many pens being passed. The pens that were sold went on a par with prices at tho previous sale. Store sheep mainly consisted of woolly hoggets, and the prices for .these .lines ,werc.,probably..easier, thai?, last? week'; one< pen' •/made :■ 165, ; 9d, thai being saleable, , the best price offering* being 21s! In Store' cuttle 'fo*ur-cunie "forward, 1 but' failed •to change hands. There -was an inferior yarding of dairy cattle, for which there was no demand. The J'ardings were as follows: Fat sheep 65, pigs 76, store sheep 895, store cattle 4, dairy cattle 53. The following business ensued :

Fat sheep : 13 wethers and 1 maiden ewe (p) 23* 9d, 14 ewes 18s Id, 19 do. 19s 4d, 9 do. 15g lid, 10 wethers 22s 6d.

Pigs • 1 six-Weeks-old purebred boar, 19s, 2 do. 16s, 2 weaners (p) 7s, 4 slips (p) 12s, 3 do. (p) 13s, 6 good weaners 10s, 8 do. lis, V weaners (p) 6s, 5 do. (p) ss, 7 do. (p) 7s, 3 Yorkshire slips (p) 14s, 2 weaners 6s, 4 do. ss, 22 weaners 7s.

Store sheep : 101 2 and 4-tooth wethers in wool (p) 21s, 36 ewes and 36 lambs 20s 7d, 126 mixed sex (woollv) hoggets 16s ad, 336 do. (p) 14s 9d, 135 do. 15s KM, 66 wethers (pi 16s, 11 4 and 6-tooth ewes and 11 lambs- 295, 18 fat and forward 18s Id, 19 forward ewes 12s 3d, 8 ewes and 11 lambs (p) 18s, 3X mixed sex hoggets ,16s 6d, 12 forward empty ewes (p) 14s, 14 hoggets (p) 9s, 20 do. 10. s 9d, 161 2 to 8-tooth ewes in wool (p) 21s. Store cattle: 2 heifers (no bid), 2 steers (Ho bid).

Dairy cattle: 1 Shorthorn heifer in calf (p) £3, 3 do; (no bid), 1 cow due 2 weeks £5 10s, 1 yearling Jersey eioss heifer (p) £2 10s, 3 heifers (no bid), 1 Short horn cow in calf (no bid), 1 cow due October 26 (no bid), 1 Jersey cross cow due November (no bid), 3 Shorthorn cows coming to second calf (no bid), 2 Holslein heifers (no bid), 1 Holstein, cow and calf at foot (p) £1 10s, 8 yearling heifers (p) £2, 3 yearling heifers (p £2, 4 do. (no bid), 11 yearling Jersey cross heifesr (p) £3, 1 Jersey cross heifer in milk (no bid), 1 Jei> sey heifer due early £9, 1 heifer in calf £4 10s, 1 cow in calf (no bid), 1 heifer in milk 2 weeks £5 10s,, I Jersey cross heifer in milk 3 days (p) £6, 1 18-month Jersey bull £ls 15s, 1 yearling. Holstein bull (no bid), 1 Ilolstein heifer in calf (p) £2 10s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following advk'o from their London office, under date 13th October, 1922: "New Zealand butter, 216/- to 222/- per awt; market dull. Cheese, 100/- to 104/-: market firm."