COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3898, 7 May 1937, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

. HAMILTON STOCK SALE. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Hamilton, report as follows on their Frankton Sale held on Tuesday. Cattle: Generally speaking a good sale was effected at values firm on recent quotations. We yarded a number of pens of good to heavy P.A. fat heifers, as well as the usual offering of good fat Jersey beef. The demand was consistently strong end all sold freely. Also unfinished and ex dairy cows elicited fairly good bidding and consequently prices were fully maintained. A few bulls and dairy cows drew a good response of buyers, prices being satisfactory. We quote:—Good quality P.A. heifers £5 6s to £6 Is; lighter do. £4 15s to £5 ss; medium fat Holstein cows £4 15s to £5 4s; good quality Jersey cows £4 5s to £5; medium £3 5s to "i; light and stores £2 15s to £3 2s 6d; boners up to £2 10s; I.C. heifers medium £5 10s; dairy heifers up to £6 ss. Sheep.—Bone sheep were penned in moderate supply only. Both wethers and ewes commanded good bidding, and prices were as formerly. Lambs of which there was a fair yarding, were sold likewise without ■ ppreciable fluctuation. Heavy quality wethers made 31s to 33s 6d; medium 25s to 30s; heavy fat ewes 25s to 27s 9d; medium 22s to 245; light tin to 19s; heavy lambs 22s to 25s 6d; medium 19s to 21s: forward store lambs 15s to 17s; others up to 14s Id. Figs: There was a better tone in this i ection. Porkers advanced a fraction, while h'aconer values, though about equal taking the average, improved a shade in one or two instances. The inquiry for stores and weaners was fairly good, and if anything, they would be a little higher. I'eavy baconers made £3 7s to £3 12s; riedium £3 2s to £3 ss; light £2 15s to £3; heavy porkers £2 7s 6d I i £2 14s; medium £2 2s to £2 2s 6d; l.'ght up to £2; good store pigs 16sto 19s; medium 14s to 16s; slips Ils io 13s; weaners up to 9s.

OHAUPO HORSE SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Liini ed, report having held their Ohaupo horse sale on Wednesday. The entry was not sc large as usual, no doubt < wing to the inclement weather, which ; Iso affected the attendance. The following were the principal sales: On recount Mr A. Bond, aged draught mare, £36; on account Mr W. Saunders, light draught gelding, £32; on ac- : >unt Mr Caley, aged gelding, £2l 10s; on account Tokoroa Farm, light v ork gelding, aged, £l9; light mare, £l2; on account Mr Alex Forsythe, I’ght work mare, £l6; on account Mr

A. W. Retter, aged, light gelding, £2l: < n account Mr Caley, aged, light gelding t _£2l; trotting mare and foal, £l6; lotting gelding, Rockella, 17gns; on -0001101 Mr H. Dingle, aged mare, £23; other light horses, £5 to £lO. Harness at full rates.

OTOROHANGA QUOTATIONS. The New Zealand Loan and Mer- < untile Agency Company, Limited, i amilton, report as follows on their Otorohanga stock sale held on Wednesday:—The sale was fairly spirited. Good numbers of unfinished and cull < :-ws were entered and sold briskly .. .od competitio . Form y-ei-e secured throughout. The de- : nd for a small p ' : ■ws was keen and values wets . able. A few pens c" pe-.ning and L.i-calf heifers met with a satisfactory : Te. Good quality fat cows made 1. I ls to £5 2s, medium to light qual- . y iat Jersey cows £3 12s 6d to £4, cx-dairy store cows £2 15s to £3 10s, boners £2 10s, in-calf heifes up to £5 Is 6d, yearling heifers (plain) £2 15s. A mixed yarding of mostly store 1 mbs and fat wethers came forward. A good sale was experienced and everything sold with prices being 1 ully equal to other sales’ quotations. Good fat wethers made £1 5s to £1 7s 6<l, light and forward 22s to 24s 2d, medium fat ewes 15s to 19s, good store lambs 13s to 17s 9d, inferior 12s 6d. A small entry of stores and weanes elicited the usual competition and made satisfactory rates on the basis of late quotations. Light porkers made 33s to 355, good store pigs 16s to 21s, medium 13s to 16s, slips I.ls to 13s, weaners up to 10s. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auehaving held their Otorohanga stock sale yesterday when a full yarding of fat and store cows came forward. The entry in both the sheep and pig sections .was small. The demand for all c'asses of works cows was keen and prices realised showed an advance on those ruling at last sale. For the small entry of store lambs competition was good and prices realised were in vendors’ favour. Fat heifers made £5 15s to £6 Ils, heavy fat Jersey cows £4 10s to £5 ss, heavy works cows £3 10s to £4 ss, medium £2 15s to £3 ss, light 35s to £2 10s, 4-year P.A. and Hereford steers to £7 10s, 2-year P.A. and Hereford steers to £5 5s to £5 15s, potter bulls £3 17s Cd to £6. Sheep: Black face lambs 16s to 17s 6d. Pigs: Light porkers 28s to 345, large stores 18s to 20s, weaners 7s 6d to 9s 6d.

HAMILTON STOCK SALE. (Messrs Dalgety and Company Limited, report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Frankton saleyards on Tuesday as under: Fat Sheep.—No doubt the inclement weather was the cause of a very short yarding. Prices advanced about Is to 2s per head on last week’s rates. Medium weight prime wethers made 32s 6d to 34s 6d; medium quality wethers 29s 6d to 31s 6d; heavy fat ewes 24s to 265; unfinished and light 17s to 22s 6d. Fat Lambs. —A moderate yarding which sold at full late rates. Good heavy woolly lambs 2os ■to 28s 6d; light woolly lambs 22s 9d tc 24s 6d; unfinished lambs 16s to 18s. Fat Cattle.— A moderate yarding of fat bullocks of nice quality, but competition was weak and the majority were passed at auction. Light fat steers made £7 16s to £8 7s 6d; fat cows and heifers sold at late rates; fat cows and heifers medium weights £5 to £5 10s;'light weight cows £4 7s 6d to £4 17s 6d; runners made £3 to £3 15s; vealers 25s to 50s. Store Cattla. - ,A full yarding of boners which sold at full late

rates. Heavy cows £3 15s to £4 10s; medium cows £3 2s 6d to £3 I2s Gd; light and inferior £2 2s to £2 12s. Store Sheep.—We sold 400 ewes in lamb to Southdown Rams 24s 6d to 26s 9d; store woolly lambs 12s. Pigs.—A heavy yarding of fat pigs came forward with a medium yarding of stores and weaners. The yarding of fat pigs comprised chiefly of porkers and light baconers. Spirited competition was maintained throughout the sale. Baconers made up to £3 14s. Stores and weaners were slow of demand. We quote: Prime heavy baconers £3 9s to £3 11s; heavy ditto £3 2s to £3 9s; medium do. £2 17s to £3 2s; light do. £2 12s to £2 17s; heavy porkers £2 3s to £2 IDs; medium do. 38s to £2 2s; light do. 30s to 38s; small do. 25s tc 30s; medium choppers £2 tc- £2 15s; best store pigs 18s to 21s; medium do. 16s to 18s; slips 12s to 15s; weaners 1:0s to 12s.

HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report: Sheep.—At Frankton Sale on Tuesday, a smaller yarding of fat sheep. Values for wethers remained firm at late quotations, while competition for a shorter offering of fat ewes was particularly keen and values showed a marked improvement on last week’s rates. An average yarding of fat lambs also met with a better demand. Store sheep realised late values, while a line of 455 small 2-tooth wethers sold from 22s to 23s 6d. Cattle:—A full yarding of all classes was penned, including a full entry of ox beef which was not keenly sought after, and in most cases Vendor’s reserves were hard to reach. A better inquiry existed for both cow and heifer beef, and in this section a total clearance. was effected, at values on a par with last week’s quotations. A full offering of vealers sold at late ruling rates. Boner cows were again penned in heavy numbers, values remaining unchanged. Pigs:—,-A good yarding of fat pigs, and a small entry of stores and weaners. Both baconers and porkers were again in keen demand and last week’s advanced rates fully maintained. Steres and weaners also realised late rates. Quotations: —Sheep: Fat wethers 32s 6d to 34s 9d; unfinished 30s 9d to 325; extra prime ewes 26s to 26s 6d; unfinished 17s to 18s 6d; heavy fat lambs 31s 6d to 325; medium 24s 3d to 26s 3d; light 21s 9d to 23s 6d; 2-tocth wethers 22s to 23s 6d; ewes r.w. S/d rams 27s 6d. Cattle. —Medium prime cows £6 Is to £6 15s; medium prime heifers £5 14s to £6 ss; lighter cows and heifers £4 12s to £5 6s; heavy Shorthorn cows £4 6s to £4 17s; fat Jersey cows £3 8s to £4 2s; heavy boners £2 12s to £3 ss; lighter 25s to £2 10s; runners £3 10s to £4; vealers £2 2s; to £2 10s; rough calves 29s to 335. Pigs:—Best baconers £3 8s to £3 14s; medium £3 2s to £3 7s; light £2 17s to £3 Is; unfinished £2 12s to £2 16s: heavy porkers £2 2s to £2 10s; medium 37s tc £2 Is; light 30s to 365; unfinished 24s to 295; medium store pigs 18s to 21s; slips 10s to 14s; best weaners 8s 6d to 10s 6d; others 4s to 6s.