DISTRICT STOCK SALES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 10

DISTRICT STOCK SALES

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS Auctioneers report on stock sales held | throughout the district during the past week as follow: Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited.— During the week we held sales at Westfield, Waiuku (cattle and pigs), Clevedon, Waiotira, Pokeno, Kumeu, Runciman and Maungaturoto, and one clearing sale. Cattle were penned in larger numbers, and there was a keen inquiry for all classes. Practically total clearances were affected at all centres. Best dairy cows made £l4 to £lB 10s; i good cows, £ll to £l3 15s: second-grade ! cows. £S to £lO 10s: aged and inferior, | £4 10s to £7 15s; best springing heijfers,_£ll to £l6; other springing heifers,’ , £5 5s to £lO 10s; empty young cows and heifers. £5 to £7; store and boner j cows. £2 10s_ to £6; cows with calves, , 7 to £lO ss: heavy prime fat cows i and heifers. £ll to £l4 2s 6a; lighter :at cows and heifers, £6 10s to £lO ! fat steers. £ll 10s to £ls 10s: i grown steers in forward condition, £lO I to £_1 1 ss; four-year-old steers. £9 to £9 17s 6d; three to four-year-old steers, £$ to £9: IS-months to two-year-old steers. £5 to £7 15s; yearling steers. £4 10s to £5 15s; well-bred yearling heifers, £5 10s to £7: other vearling heifers. £3 15s to £5 7s 6d: heavy bulls, £S 10s to £l3 ss: sound young herd bulls. £ 7 to £l2 12s; other bulls, £3 10s to £6 15s; woolly and shorn hoggets. £1 Is to _ £ 1 Ss; fat and forward wethers, £1 15s to £1 18s; store wethers, £1 12s: fat ewes, £1 Ss to £1 11s. The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.— Sales were held during the past week at Westfield. Pukekohe «cattle and pigs ). Papakura, Paeroa and Xgatea. We report good sales with values firm for all classes of cattle, pigs, sheep, etc. We quote: Dairy cows and heifers, close to profit, best, £l2 to £l6 15s; others. £9 to £ll 15s; backward springers, £7 to £9 15s; aged cows and inferior heifers. £4 to £6 15s; bulls. £5 to £ll 10s. according to weight and quality; yearling heifers, best. £4 10s to £ 6 10s: others, i £2 10? to £4 ss; yearling to IS-month-old steers. £3 to £5 17s 6d; store cows, £3 to £6 17s; two to 2s-year steers. £6 to £7 ss: three : o 35-year steers. £7 7s 6d to £8 17s 6d: four to 4j-vear , steers. £9 to £lO l*.»s. Beef at fully Westfield quotations.