COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 93, 9 June 1911, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

NcivLcn King. At Rahotu on Tuesday.therc was an average yarding and good attendance, with good competition tor noaiiy aii lines;.; Calves and store cows we.o in good demand, and sold at iiuprovec. rates. Small cows made 17s tn 225-(xI, good do Sos to Ills, 15 to IS,month heifers £‘3 2s, J’ei s'ey heifer .calves £2 Us Gel, 2V to 3 yea. heifers in ‘call £o 10s to £4 13s, Vat cows £4 15s to £5 9s, store cows £2 16s to £3 10s. At Fungarolui on Wednesday I hold a clearing sale on account of Mr. Smithem, when, in spite of the rain, there was a good attendance, and satisfactory prices were realised for noth live and uead stock. The cows were a good lot, and any showing quality and forward sold really well. Early culvers made £6 10s to £ll 10s, late do. £5 10s to £6 10s, springing heifers £-5 to £5 10s, yearling heifers £2 75,; sundries and furniture made satisfactory prices. At Waiwanaitio on Thursday cattle came forward in excess of advertised numbers, and there was a good attendance. Several pons of heifers were yarded, but being mostly in a backward condition, were not enquired for. Good calves were in demand but few came forward. Mixed weaners made £1 to £1 7s, heifer do. £1 16s, IB months to 2 vear steers £2 19s 6d to £3 6s, springing 1 leifcrs £5 to £c 1 7s (3d, *£2T M’&riTZ'Kt cows £5 3g, forward cows £3 6s to £3 11s, bulls £3 IBs Gd to £5 4s, working bullocks £2U 10s per pair, lambs 8s 4d, old ewes 5s Id. Yeung, Hobbc anti Co. At Kaponga on [Malay, May ?6tli, we had a fair yarding which was well competed for at rumig rates. Tci - ward cows made £4 6s, fresh do. £3 7s to £3 8s 6d, store do. £2 2s 6*l to £3, calves £1 os, f.m. eyes 7s b.l. A t Elthaifi on Wednesday, 31st. w.c had a full yarding. A'iimist everything offered was quitted at .s.atmiuctory prices. Fat cows made £4 16s to £5 Bs, forward do. £1 to £l 10s, store, to fresh do. £3 4s 61 io £3 18«, ■store .do. (aged) £2 Is tn £2 lay;- 2[ year steers £l 12s 3d, 18 month to 2 year old do. £3 14s, weaners u> yearlings £T 3s 6d to L2, IS month licifers £2 13s to £3 10s, oulvos 18s d-. 1. At Stratford on June, ( lh nil the advertised cattle tamo lo’ward, ,ind wc succeeded in placing most of the yarding at satisfactory prices. Choice dairy heifers made £V ss, good 2 year do. £4 10s to, £5 ss. o year old store to fresh conditioned bullocks £5 ss, forward cows £3 10s to £4 0s Gd, store tn fresh do. £2 is to £3 ss, calves £1 2s to £1 3s, 18 month heifers £3 3s. Mew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.’s Report. The- Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.; Stratford branch, report:—Wo held our usual fortnightly cattle sale in our Stratford yards on Tuesday last, when we had a largo yarding both of slump aim cattle, and effected a good clearing of same. The demand appeared brisker and better for w eaners. One or two large .lines that wo expected did not turn up, owing io unforeseen circumstances. Weaners, small and weedy, made. 15s 6d, fair and good 255, and very good lines up to 31s Gd, and a line of very nice Ayrshire heifm.s iiom a Cardiff client were keenly competed for and realised 40s Gd.* Yearling Holstein bulls made from 30s to 109 s, 18 to 20 month steers realised fron G6s (3d to 71s; store cows, low condition 50s, medium and forward condition made to 89s, fat cows 100.3 to 102 s Gd. We had a fairly large number of 2.[ year old heifers iu calf, —small and low condition made 75s 6d to 104 s, w’liile a nice line of 50 well-grown, good-conditioned cattle were sold to a Nguire client at 112 s Gd. We offered on account of Mr. iM. Broderick, Rukengahn, who lias sold his place, 50 head, of cattle without . reserve. The cattle were of good quality, and met with keen competition from sundry buyers, hiq 20month steers making 745. 2 year heifers in calf up to 68s, while his empty heifers, of good quality, made 82s, and 2 to 2th year steers, a very nice line, to 90s, ami 3 to 3.J year steers <• ere i;fonly competed for and realised i2u.> 6c per head. Wo also offered on > count of Mr. Ed. Revell, late of ElVham. and now of Tauranga, wdio has sola his Tarata property, 81 Jiead ut hqifers in calf, which were all sold at the hammer at satisfactory prices. A Koluiratahi client yarded some very nice ■ .Gives, which looked remarkably well after the long drive in, and though sheep were considered to be rather dull selling at the present time, we managed to clear his atpoth owes at 13s, and his 4-year inti owes at 6s 2d.

During the week v.’o placed several herds of dairy cows at up to C 7 10s. Oui next sale will bo bold on Tuesday. 20lTi instant, and wo uopo clients will yard weanors, as wo nav .< an unsatisfied demand for woaners of good quality.