Commercial

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 22 August 1923, Page 8

Commercial

THE P.A.C. REPORT. The P.A.C. report as follows; We conducted our usual weekly sale in our rooms last Saturday with a good attendance and improvement in prices generally: P.B. cockerels 5/- to 7/- each, fat cockerels 2/to 2/11 each, fat hens (good) 3/2 to 3/8, ducks 3/- to 4/1, incubator chicks 1/1 each, hen and chicks from 10/-, firewood 2/3 sack, pumpkins 5/- to 7/6 sack (finished now), pig potatoes 4/- to 7/- cwt chaff 9/sack, apples, Stunners 2/- to 5/6 for best, other sorts 1/6 to 3/6, farmers bacon 8d per lb, factory bacon 8d to lid per lb. We offered a fair amount of household furniture which was disposed of at satisfactory prices, farm tools, implements, carts, harness etc., are now selling well.

NEWTON KING LIMITED REPORT At Stony. River on the 14th instant a good yarding of all classes came forward most of which sold, j The offering of dairy stock was j large and; included a small dairy on ■ account 6f Mr Fraser Jones. The best these sold up to £lO. The ! sale onNJie whole was a dragging | one. not an unusual feature of the | dairy market in Taranaki at the present time. Store cattle sold with much more vigour, yearling heifers being the hardest class to quit, but even so. quotations did not recede. Weaner pigs 17/6; slips 20/-, 22/-; yearling heifers 21/-, 29/-; Holstein do £2/11/-; Jersey do £4; empty 20-month heifers £2/15/-; yearling steers £2/1/-, £2/2/-; two-year do £3/7/6; fat cows - £5/17/6; store cows 18/-, 30/-; forward do £2/10/-, £3/5/-; springing heifers £6, £B/10/-, £9/10/-; dairy cows £6/10/-, £7/15/-, £B/15/-; best quality do £ll. There was also a conspicuous enquiry for horses, light milk carters making up to £24, three-quarter draught gelding £33, pony £lO/10/-, aged mare £6/5/-. At Waiwakaiho on the 16th instant there was h moderate yarding of all classes. Store cattle sold at late . rates, the dairy market being in a more or less depressed state. Vendors did, however meet the market in most case. Store cows 18/36/6. £2/10/-, light fat cows £3/14/-; two-year-old steers £3/2/-; yearling heifers 35/6; Jersey heifers £3/4/6, £4/5/-; springing heifers £4, £5/10/Jersey heifers £B, £ll/5/-; dairy cows' £5, £5(/10/, £6; good quality cows £ll. At Kohuratahi on the 17th instant, in conjunction with the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, we conducted a special sale of dairy and other /Stock. The former were in plentiful supply but mostly very backward. Very little business was ) transacted with this class, Taranaki buyers not operating. Sheep and store cattle so’d well, two-tooth wethers 30/9; two-tooth ewes (in lamb) 36/6; aged ewes (in lamb) 23/7; fat bullocks £7/8/-; Jersey cross empty heifers £4/4/-; poor conditioned heifers £2/17/-.