COMMERCIAL

Southland Times, Issue 17937, 31 January 1917, Page 4

COMMERCIAL

TAUACETOWN STOCK SAXE.

AVERAGE YAP-DINGS

MEET WITH FAIR SAGE.

There were good entries in all classes for the weekly auction in the Wallacetown yards yesterday. Buyiers wore present in strong force, and the sale generally was as good as any since the holidays.

Yardings compare with those at the two previous sales thus: —

Jan. 30. Jan. 23. Jan. 16. Fat cattle . . 184 130 IBS Store cattle 450 120 450 Fat sheep .. 763 851 759 Store sheep 207 185 188

STORE CATTLK

The yarding was about the average, in both numbers and quality. A few lots were passed, but, before the day was over, by far the major part of the yarding had changed hands either at auction or privately. A nice line of three and four-year-old bullocks sold for £ll, whiic other values were; Three-year-old stuff, £ll 10/- to £l3; two-year-old, £8 10/- to £lO 10/-; with yearlings and 18inonthers from £5 to £7 10/-, according to size and quality.

FAT CATTLE,

The large yarding consisted of Hit, usual sorts and included a few extra prime bullocks besides some very nice cows. Butchers lifted a fair share of toe entry, and freezing men accounted for the remainder, which served to keep values up to the general standard which has been ruling of late. Ox beef made from 44/6 to 45/6; heifer, 42/6 to 43/6; ~"iw. 4C/- to 41/“

FAT SHEEP,

The good yarding was mostly cleared at auction. A few nice lambs were forward and these sold well up to ruling rates. All through, in fact, prices were practically the same as those offering a week ago, with perhaps a slight advance on prime wethers in the early stages of the sale. Butchers appeared to fill their programmes early, and practically onlyfreezing buyers were left in at the finish. Extra prime wethers were worth 35/6 to almost 37/-, with prime at from 31/to 3 4/6, and medium 30/- to 31/-. Extra prime ewes brought from 30/- up to 33/-; prime, 28/- to 29/-, and medium, 22/- to 23/6.

STORK SHEEP,

The yarding was a better one than had been seen for a few sales past, and the quality was well maintained throughout and prices showed no falling off. Firms report sales as follows:

Loan & Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd

STORE CATTLE.—Account client, 25 steers at £lO to Chas. Christie: account W. G. Beer, 11 steers at fS 5/- to Jno. Harrison, t empty heifers at £5 11/- to Fred. Price; account Chas. Mclntosh, 3 empty cows at £8 10/- to \V. Swale; account D. Duff, 12 empty heifers at £4 11/- to T. W. Blatch; account F. Stevens, heifer at £1 to Edwd. Royds, cow at £2 to W. Swale.

PAT CATTLE. —Account W. G. Boer, heifer at £7 to W. Swale; account D. Duff, heifer at £7 .10/- to W. Swale; account client, bullock at £ls 15/- to W. Swale, one to Ryan and Turpin at £l3 17/6, heifer at £l3 13/6 to J. Wills and Co. one at £l3 to W. Swale, two at £lO 10/- to \V. Swale, 3 heifers at £l3 to W. Swale, 3 heifers at £l3 to .i. Wills and Co., heifer at £9 10/- to J. Wills and Co.; account .McDowall Bros. (Taramoa), bullock at £lB to W. Swale, 2 passed at £l7 5/-. STORK SllHKP.—Account W. G. Beer, 60 ewes to W. Calder at 14/8, 70 to A, Botherway at 11/8, 85 s.rn. ewes at 21/1 to W. Cartwright, 1 wethers at 17/1 to C. Driscoll, 3 rams at 10/- to R. Russell; account Angus Smith, 7 ewes and lambs at 11/9 to W. Gray (West Plains).

FAT SHEEP.—Passed, 76 wethers at 30/6, 91 at 33/6. Wright, Stephenson & Co., Ltd.

STOKE CATTLE. —Account R. Run. sell, 4 cows at £4 12/6 to T. Greaney, 9 at £6 10/- to J. H. Thompson, 13 steers at £7 to Fosbender Bros., 16 heifers at £6 to W. Baird; account 11. Cunningham, 11 yearlings at £4 to Wm. Stewart; account Waitori Estate, steer at £l2 11/-, one at £7 16/-, and one at £3 12/6, all to F. H. Bennetts: account F. H. Bennetts, 11 steers at £5 IJ/- to T. Welsh; account At. Ford, bull at £8 10/. to R. Russell; account R. Officer, bull at £6 6'- to R. Marshall: account J. Fothcringham, cow at £7 12/- to K. Russell; account Jno. Thompson, cow at £ll 15/- to J. Harvey, bull at £ll to R. Russell.

FAT SHEEP. —Account El, Marshall, 10 wethers to T. C. Maltby at 36/6, 64 to T. O'Connor at 36/8; account A. Bisset, 67 wethers at 33/3 to .1. Taylor, 12 to W. Turpin at 21/3, and 17 to J. C. McKenzie at 31/3; account Deegan and Sons, 30 cwc« to G. ancr T. Deegan at 33/10, 36 to W. Wills at 31/2; account Button and Cook, IS lambs at 26/- to H. G. Brass, 21 ewes at 25/- to H. G. Brass.

FAT CATTLE.—Account M. Metzger, 3 fat bullocks at £l6 15/- to F. A. Price, 3 do. at £l6 10/- to F. A. Price: account client, 1 fat cows at £l2 17/6 to \V. Swale; account R. Russell, 5 heifers at ts to Jno. Graham; account F. 11. Bennetts, 3 fat cows at £9 10/- to P. Winders; account Jno. Thomson, 1 fat cow at £ll IS/- to W. Swale; account W. Baird, 1 fat bullocks at £M 10/- to F. A. I’riec; account 11. Cunningham, 3 do. at £l6 10/- to 11.. G. Brass; account F. A. Price, 1 fat hillocks at £ls to J. Wills, 3 do. at £ll 17/6 to Ryan and Turpin; account R. Brown, 3. fat heifers at £lO 10- to W. Baird.

National Mortgage & Agency Co., Ltd,

STORE CATTLE.—Account Jno. Murphy, 21 three-year-old steers to Mrs O'Connell at £lO 10/-; account C. McIntosh, 2 empty cows to W. Swale at £8 10/-; account T. Hughes, 17 steers and heifers to 11. Cox at £l2 10/-; account Scott and Simpson, 50 steers to M. McKenzie at £6 5/-; account A. Baird, 3 steers to Mrs O'Connell at £8 10/-, heifer to do. at £7 10/-, steer to [•’osbender Bros, at £6 2/6, 2 hulls to ’.V. Swale at £11; account R. Russell, 19 speyed heifers to W. Diamond at £6 10/-; account A. Jenkins, 2 heifers to T. Meniman at £3 8/-, 2 steers to J. Fosbender at £6 18/-, cow to W. Swale at £7 10/-; account Jas. Thomson, 2 empty cows to W. Swale at £3 17/-; account R. Cartwright, steer to W. Curran at £3 17/-; account Maloney Bros., 2 steers to 11. Russell at £lO 13/-: account J. Rob--tson, bull to W. Swale at £ls 5/-;

account .1. and T. Grant, 2 heifers to Jno. Stevens at £5 10/-, heifer to do. at £3 11/-, bull to R. A. Mullen at £5 10/-; account W. Curran, 19 steers and heifers to J. McKinney at £4 9/-. FAT CATTLE.—Account 1). Bruce, 2 bullocks to Jno. Wills at £l3 17/6; account Jno. Murphy, 5 bullocks to Mrs O’Connell at £lO 10/-, 3 to W. Swale at £11; account W. McNaughton, cow to H. G. Brass at £9: account A. Jenkins, bullock to W. Swale at £9 5/-; account W. Weir, 4 bullocks to W. Swale at £l4 10/-, one to Jno. Wills at £l4 2/6, 2 to P. Winders at £l2 a/-; account M. Metzger, bullock to H. G. Brass at £l6 12/6; account Flanagan Bros., 4 bullocks to H. G. Brass at £ls, 2 to T. C. Maltby at £l3 7/6, 2 bullocks to F. A. Price at £l3 7/6; account R. Cartwright. 2 heifers to F. A. Price at £9, one to W. Swale at £lO, one to do. at £6; account A. Baird, 37 cows and heifers to W. Swale at £ll, bullock to H. G. Brass at £l3; account J. R. Kidd, 4 bullocks to D. R. Jones at £l6 7/6; account D. Whitelaw, cow to F. A. Price at £l4; account F. H. Bennetts, bullock to T. C. Maltby at £ls; account R. Russell, 3 bullocks to T. C. Maltby at £ls 10/; account Playfair and Traill, 3 heifers to W. Wills at £lO 15/-, one bullock to D. K. Jones at £lB 17/6 (top price), cow to F. A. Price at £ls in/-, one to do. at £l4 10/-, 2 heifers to do. at £l4, one to IV. Baird at £l3 7/6, one to W. Baird at £l2 2/6, cow to P. Winders at £8 15/-, 2 cows to W. Swale at £7 12/6; account J. and T. Grant, 2 cows to Ryan and Turpin at £l2 10/-.

FAT. SHEEP. —Account Lightfoot and Campbell, 8 lambs to T. O’Connor at 27/-, 6 to do. at 27/2, 4 to Jas. Balneaves at 17/6; account Jno. Fahey, 2 lambs to T. O'Connor at 29/-: account S, Kdie, 4 fat lambs to T. O'Connor at 28/-; account C. McKinnon, 39 lambs to W. Swale at 22/4; account Lightfoot and Campbell, 6 ewes to Raines Bros, at 31/-; account S. Edie, 14 ewes to Mrs Humphries, at 29/-; account Adolphus Bisset, 70 wethers to T. O'Connor at 34/8, 37 wethers to W. Swale at 34/1, 30 to do. at 34/S, 37 to Jno. Wills at 31/1; account C. McKinnon, 30 wethers to W. Swale at 31/-, 2 rams to W. Swale at 10/-.

THE MEAT BtABKITT

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT.

(Per United Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, January 30

In the High Commissioner’s market report dated London, January 27, certain words have been repeated with the result that the translation of the meat section as issued yesterday requires amending. The correct translation reads as follows; —The meat market continues firm for all descriptions of frozen meat. Supplies are small and prices are high for Argentine mutton and lamb. New Zealand and Australian mutton per lb, B%d; ewe mutton, C%d; Argentine mutton, heavy-weight, 9%d; light-weight 10d; New Zealand and Australian lamb, lOd: Argentine lamb, heavy-weight, 10% d: light-weight, lid. New Zealand beef —No supplies available. New Zealand boneless beef. 9>4d; Argentine chilled beef, hinds, 11 %d; fores, 9%d.

CTOWCH ÜBCE MARKETS. CHRISTCHURCH, January 20. Although there is not a large quantity of wheat offering, millers are buying odd lines of Tuscan, either straight out at 5/6 at country stations, or subject to the Government price If fixed. it is expected that at the conference with Canterbury wheat-growers on Thursday, the Minister of Agriculture will state his intentions with regard to the price of wheat and flour. Farmers who have been offering their wheat say that the yield has been very disappointing. There are no oats offering, and little grass seed. For feed oats about 2/6 at country stations is offered, but more would be paid for heavy seed lines of either Algerians, Gartons, or Duns.