COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 24, 27 January 1913, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

Newton King's Weekly Report. On Friday, 17 th, at Waiwakaiho i had a small entry which sold as fol- , lows; Jersey wearier heifers £2 I Is, mixed weaners £1 IDs, coloured steers £2 Is to £2 7s 6d, bulls from £3 2s Gd to £7 2s, store cows from £3 IBs to £4 9s, fat cows small £5 5s to £5 15s. At Toko on Monday, 20th, bulls at from £2 to £3 8s Gd, fat cows from £o 10s to £5 IGs, store cows £3 IBs Gd to £4 1 13 s, 2i-year heifers r.w.b. £4 Is Gd, good 20-month steers £3 14s. In my Stratford yards on Tuesday, 21st, for my fortnightly, sale and bullock fair (in conjunction) I had a very heavy entry. Some fine pens of 3s- - bullocks (about 300 head) were yarded, these attracting a large attendance of the public. Bidding opened briskly on both steers and bullocks, slackening a little later in the sale, but a good majority of the yarding was cleared during the day. Competition was again keen for good cows. 18-month heifers were in demand, but 2j-year met with little enquiry. A good number of weaners were yarded and sold well. Some nice pons of 20-month steers were offered, tin best price obtained being £4 4s. Exceptional competition is being receiver at all my yards for good conditioned bulls, arid farmers holding any artadvised to yard them early, but not to sell privately, for by doing this they lose the great advantage of the present keen inquiry. A line of 150 1 and 6-tooth wethers, small, realised 15s Id. I quote: Weaner steers £1 12s to £1 17s, weaner heifers £1 13; to £1 17s Gd, mixed weaners £1 2s Gd to £1 9s Gd,'l2, to 18-month empty Jersey-Holstein heifers £4 13s, 18month choice Jersey in-calf heifers, £3 Gsj grade 15 to 20-month empty heifers from £2 16s Gd to £3 9s according to size, best line of 20-month steers £4 to £4 4s, 21-year steers showing some colour £4 13s, 3-)-yea; bullocks £0 15s to £6 17s Gd, forward bullocks £7 15s Gd, forward stags, £t 17s Gd, forward and fat cows £-4 15: to £5 12s, good stores £4 3s 6d to £4 10s Gd, small or aged £1 10s to £3 7s, heavy hulls from £5 6s to £7 IGs, small £3 Us to £4 18s. On Wednesday, 22nd, at Stony River I had a fair entry with an improved attendance of the public. The class and condition of all the cattle yarded was good and sold as follows: Mixed weaners £1 12s Gd to £1 17s. grade weaner heifers £1 15s to £1 18s, weaner steers up to £1 IGs, yearling to 15-month steers £2 15s to £2 17s, yearling to 15-month empty heifers £3 6s Gd, very nice line of 16-month Hql stein steers £3 14s, bulls £3 to £6, according to weight, store cows up to - £4 4s, forward, cows £4 11s to £5 2« Gd, fat cows £5 13s to £G ss, purebre j pigs, slips, for breeding £1 15s to £2. small stores £1 Is Gd to £1 5s Gd. Private sales.—l have a very good 1 inquiry for good 18 to. 20-month steer: and coloured heifers, any age. Sale:were made during the week at the following rates: Weaner heifers, col oured £2 to £2 ss, mixed weaners uj to £1 16s, mixed 18-month steers am, heifers £3 12s, 18-month steers from £3 12s to £3 17s, for best, and £3 t< £3 8s for others, 18-month empty heifers £3 Bs, forward cows £5, fat cowi £5 12s 6d to £7, bulls £5 10s, 21-yeat heifers in calf £4 IGs, 4 and 6-tooti wethers, small 15s, 6-tooth wethers good, 17s to 17s Gd, good steer’s in forward condition from £5 tr £5 10s, 3 to bullocks £5 15: to £6 13s, 21-year steers, with sorru colour £4 13s, empty Jersey heifer; £ 1 13s 6d. THE LONDON MARKETS. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, January 25. Rabbi: L.—The market is slightly easier. The high prices are checking the demand. _ M O ,.fP T c ln-"/| nominal. _ l>nßj fesands* 4jdj Australian owes, 3 id* uaiiios.—vanteroury, ok: seaso: light s|d, medium ofd, both nominla; Australian best brands, sfd, fair 5 16J, inferior 4|d. Beef.—Australian hinds 3RI; River Plate, frozen hinds, 3-ld. The Bank of New Zealand has rereived the following cable advices from London“ Compared with series, prices for coarse greasy crossbred and medium greasy crossbred show a slight improvement. Americans are buying freely.” DUNEDIN WOOL SALE. A feature of the wool sales held at Dunedin on Wednesday was that quite a number of large station clips which have hitherto been exported to Great Britain for sale were this year placed on the local markets. Some idea of what such a change means may be gathered from the fact that among the clips alluded to are those from _

the Rocklands, Beaumont, Cecil Peaks, Otekaike, and Glencoe stations. The wool iii those clips was beautifully got up, perfectly classed, and in splendid order, and made good prices. The Wool Brokers’ Association states that the revised number of bales submitted at the sale was 27,900. The Otago Daily Times states that the wealth 1 which is represented by the January I offerings iu this portion of the dominion alone may be gauged by a simple j calculation. The wool will average |

approximately £l4 per bale at current prices, and 27,900 bales represent in money value £390,600. As the sale constitutes a record for the dominion special interest attaches to those figures. The prices realised average nearly lid over those realised last season. The total value of the wool exported from the dominion last year was £6,579,074, and, other tilings being equal, this season’s advance in values will mean an increase in this amount of £921,070, or 14 per cent., the greater portion of which will go into the pockets of the flockowners of the dominion.