COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3811, 21 September 1936, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports as follows on the firm’s stock sale at Te Awamutu on Thursday:— Fat and store cattle: As customary the yards were filled to capacity, and heavy fat cows and heifers and a number of pens of medium and heavy bullocks accounted for a good proportion of the entry. The light fat, store, and boner pens were full, and the advertised yearling heifers and a number of store steers came forward. Beef cattle of all classes were eagerly sought from a large bench of buyers, and competition was consistently keen, with the best of other centres’ quotations being maintained throughout. Three trucks of heavy Polled Angus and Shorthorn bullocks on account of Tokanui Mental Hospital sold from £l2 5 S to £l3 2s; Messrs C. S. Burgess, Waimiha, Mr W. J. Haines, Te Kuiti, and Mr J. Middlebrook, Te Awamutu, being the principal buyers. Medium-weight bullocks on account of Mr J. R. Kay, Korakonui, realised to £ll 10s; Mr J R. Kay was also the vendor of choice Polled Angus heifers, which made to £ll Ils, Mr D. J. McAlpine buying several at this figure. Messrs Kirkham Bros., Te Mawhai, sold a draft of choice Shorthorn cows to £ll ss, and Mr H. Maxwell, Otorohanga, secured a number of these. Mr R. A. Bell obtained £ll for the best of his Shorthorn cows, and M.r H. Mandeno was paid to £lO 5s for a draft of goc-d Shorthorn cows. Store and boner cows met with a particularly strong demand, and yearling heifers were accorded a brisk reception. General quotations: Heavy Shorthorn bullocks made £l2 8s to £l3 2s, heavy Polled Angus bullocks £ll 2s 6d to £l2 17, prime Polled Angus heifers £lO 5s to £ll 11s, good ditto £8 to £lO, heavy Polled Angus cows £9 to £lO 13s, prime Shorthorn cows £9 to £ll ss, medium-quality Shorthorn and Polled Angus cows and heifers £7 10s to £8 15s, heavy Jersey cows £5 5s to £6 10s, medium £4 to £5, light £3 10s to £4, sound young empty Jersey cows £2 15s to £4, 18-month mixed-colour steers £5 Bs, medium yearling Jersey heifers to £4 15s.

Dairy cattle: Approximately 250 head were penned, the majority being springing heifers, and the quality generally was good. A full bench of buyers were bidding, - and throughout the entire sale lively competition ruled. Prices particularly for good springing heifers and for choice Jersey cows in milk were appreciably better. We quote: Choice springing Jersey heifers £9 to £lO, medium £6 10s to £8 15s, others £ to £6 ss, choice dairy cows in milk £8 to £lO 10s, good £6 5s to £7 15s, good springing dairy cows £6 to £8 10s, backward and plainer ditto £5 to £6.

Sheep: The yarding was representative in all classes. A bright sale took place, and fat ewe and wether values were very firm at the high prices ruling. A few pens of ewe and wether hoggets commanded keen rivalry, and prices accordingly rose if anything above late rates. We quote: Good fat wethers 32s to 365, medium ditto 29s to 31s, prime young ewes 33s to 355, heavy-quality ewes 29s to 325, lighter to 27s 6d, heavy hoggets 23s to 27s 6d, good ewe hoggets 28s to 36s 6d, medium wether hoggets 25s t o2Bs, pen of aged ewes with lambs at foot sold exceedingly well and made 18s (all counted). Pigs: Although entered in heavy numbers, porker and baconer prices advanced, the improvement being particularly noticeable on heavy baconers. A steady sale was registered for stores and weaners, entry of which was a full one. Rates for these did not vary from those current at other sales. We quote: Heavy baconers £3 7s 6d to £3 15s, medium ditto £2 17s 6d to £3 ss, light baconers and heavy porkers £2 10s to £2 15s, medium porkers £2 2s to £2 Bs, light to £2, good store pigs £1 6s to £1 Ils, medium £1 2s to £1 ss, slips 16s to £1 Is, good weaners 12s to 15s, small to Ils.