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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVIII, Issue 14659, 11 April 1911, Page 4

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AUCKLAND .MARKETS The New Zealand Loan Company, in their report for the week ending 6th, state : We submitted and sold large catalogues of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday. Hides : Market firm, with good demand. We quote —Ox, extra stout yd to Bd, stout 6gd to 6|fd, medium 6d to 6sd, light 6d to 6 ! t d ; cows’, best lines 6d to 6Jd, good s'd to sjd, scored and sloppy sJ,‘d5 J ,‘d to sfid ; calfskins, best to Sfd, good 63d to yd, cut and damaged 3UI to s : ,’d ; stags , 4-kl to 5-jd. Sheepskins : Rest butchers’ pelts and lambs, to 3s 2d ; good, 2s a r d to 2s iod ; country dry skins, large to ys, medium 3s 6d to 5s 6d, small is to 2S 6d. Tallow : Market easier. Rest mixed, to 295, good 25s 6d to 2ys 6d, inferior 21s to 23s 6d ; rough fat, ijd to 2d per lb. Bones, £<\ 15s. Cowtails, is 8d per dozen. Horsehair, is 3d to is 4k!.

Oats : Southern quotations having advanced, the local market is firm at 2s nd ex store. Wheat : Market steady at 38 IQ d ex store. Barley : Market very firm, supplies being scanty and prices ruling high at 3s 2d ex store. Chaff : Southern has advanced 5s per ton owing to arrival of Melbourne consignments. Local remains at late rates. Rran has advanced and is now worth £3 5s ex store. Pollard : Sales firm at £7 2s 6d ex store. Rutter : Choice, iod ; first grade registered, 9M ; second-grade registered, 9;}d ; poorer qualities for milling, Bkl to qd. Eggs : In good demand at is 3d per dozen. At the Westfield Yards on Thursday, dairy and store stock were yarded in average numbers, and for anything close to profit bidding was good. Dairy cows sold at from £<\. 5s to £S 10s, heifers £3 10s to £ 6 iys 6d, empty cows £2 15s to calves iys 6 cl to £1 10s. At the Albert Yards, on Friday last, horses came forward in limited numbers, and anything with weight and quality sold under good coins petition. Heavy draughts sold to

.£42 10s, medium draughts £iS ts j light harness horses- and hack I £S ios to £l6, cart and harness I gig £5 SS. 1 At Cievedon, on Monday, owing? to the extremely wet day there was j a smaller muster of stock than usual, but prices were fully up to late quotations. > At Papakura, on Tuesday, the] yards were filled with stock of ad ■ descriptions, and prices were lowo j than last month’s quotations. Dairy cows and heifers close to profit sold at from £5 ios to £lO, others £3 to £5 ios ; three to three and-a-lialf-years’ old steers sold at from £7l 5,s to £6 ss, two to two anda-half 3'ears old £.\ ios to 2S > kv mollth to two-years’ olcl £3 5* 1° £4 4s ; yearlings, mixed sexes, £2 ys to £3 ; empty cows, £2 3s to £\ ; good calves, £1 15s to £2 ys ; others, 15s to £1 ios. The advertised sheep sold at from ys 6d to 13s 3d. Beef at Westfield rates. At Westfield, on Wednesday, we held our usual sale of fat stock. There was a large yarding of beef, and prices advanced on last week’s rates, ox beef selling to 25s per ioolb ; cows and heifers, 20s to 23s per ioolbs ; steers sold at from £ y ios to £ll 15s, cows and heifers £3 15s to £9 12s 6d. Calves were penned in good numbers, and sold at late rates. Heavy vealers sold at from £3 3s to £4. ys 6d, medium £2 5s to £ 3, lighter sorts 3s to 255. Sheep were yarded in smaller num- \ bers than usual, and advanced again on last week’s rates. Wethers sold at from ißsto 21s, ewes 13s qd to 19s 6d, best lambs sold at from ios to 14s 9c!, others 8s to 9s qd. Pigs were in usual numbers, and sold at late rates. Raconers to £2 15s, porkers £2 to £2 ss, weaners 5s to 12s.