COMMERCIAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 75, Issue 6440, 31 October 1947, Page 7

COMMERCIAL

TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE Newton King Ltd.. and Wright Stephenson Cd. Ltd. report that at their stock sale, held at Te Awamutu yesterday, a medium yarding of fft aiid store sheep came forward and met with keen competition and late values were well maintained. A large yarding of quality cattle were penned, included in which was the advertised line of three and four-year-old P.A. steers on account of Mr R. L. Fisher which came forward in excellent condition. Offered before a large bench of buyers these cattle sold under keen competition at improved values. Several lines of other useful P.A. cattle were sold under the same conditions and as a result of an animated sale a total clearance was effected. Boners were penned in the usual numbers and as a result of graziers operating, values realised were well ahead of exporters’ limits. In the Jersey yearling section the quality was hardly up to late yardings but sold very freely at firm values. A large yarding of pigs comprising mostly good baconers and buttermilk pigs were keenly competed for 'and made satisfactory prices on a par with central yards. Sheep: Prime fat wethers £2 to £2 4s 6d, prime woolly hoggets £2 2s to £2 Bs, prime shorn hoggets £1 14s to £1 18s 6d, prime fat ewes £1 5s 6d to £1 7s, prime w’oolly ewes £1 15s to £1 17s, shorn wether hoggets £1 10s to £1 12s lid, smaller shorn wether hoggets £1 6s to £1 9s 6d, small ewe hoggets £1 8s to £1 16s. Cattle: Light prime steers £2O, fat cows £lO to £ll 10s, fresh condition cows £8 10s to £9 10s, young Jersey cows £7 to £8 ss, other® £6 to £6 15s, inferior £3 10s to £5 10s, potter bulls -£5 10s to £9, 3 and 4-year P.A. steers £l7 to £lB 12s 6d, 3-year P.A. steers £l3 6s to £l4; 2-year P.A. steers off swedes £l2 to £l3 ss, 2-year Hereford steers £9 5s to £ll 10s, 2-year P.A. heifers low condition £7 to £7 ss, yearling P.A. heifers £5 10s to £6 6s, yearling Jersey heifers r.w.b. £8 10s to £9 12s 6d, 2-year Jersey heifers r.w.b. £5 10s to £6 15s.

Pigs: Prime baconers £6 to £6 Bs, light baconers £5 10s to £5 18s, porkers £4 Ids to £4 18s, buttermilk pigs £4 5s to £4 12s, large stores £4 to £4 10s, slips £3 to £3 13s, weaners £1 10s to £2, choppers £5 to £7 2s 6d.