COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1918, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND STOCK MARKET. .. _— : '' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report: At Wcstfield: Prices were the same as last report. Best dairy cows and heifers £l2 to £l6, others £9 to-£ll 155,-em-pty cows and heifers £(i Ms to £8 Ins,, bulls £7 to .£l4 14s, weaner calves £2' to £3.55, yearling steers £5 15s to £7 10s, yearling 'heifers £4 10s to £5 -15 m. At' Albert yards heavy draughts made. £23 to £35, medium £l6 to £2s'los', light harness and hack sorts £9 to £ls, ponies £3 to £B. On Saturday at Clevedon: Dairy cowsand heifer's £9 to £l4, fat cows and heifers £lO to £l3, empty cows and heifers £7 to £9 as, bulls £7 to £ll, weaner calves £2 Is to '£s 10s, yearling heifers £4 10s to £5 7s Cd, yearling steers £5 5s to '£7. shorn ewe hoggets £1 Is 6d to £1 fis 6d, shorn ewe hoggets £1 2s to £1 10s. shorn wethers £l. 7s to £1- 13s, shorn ewes £1 3s to £.l lis, inferior ewes 15s to £1 2s (id. On Monday-at-Henderson and at Coromandel on Thursday wc bail good musters. Dairy cows made from £8 15s to £l2 17s 6d, fat cows £9 15s to £l2 7s Od, grown steers £lO 7s Od to £l2 7s Od, cows with calves £0 17s to £l2 ss, bulls £7 7s to £W 14s, fa* -bulls £S 15s to £-9 17s (id, empty heifers £6 17s 6d to £7 153, shorn wethers 28s to 345.

At Pukekohe on Tuesday three to fouryear steers sold at from £l3 to £l4 i-ss, two to three-year steers £9 2s Od to £l*2 15s, yearling to ]S-montli steers £fl 5s to £8 17s Cd, ditto heifers £4 15s to £7 10s, heifers suitable dairy purposes £6 10s to £9, empty cows and heifers £0 10s to £9 ss, aged and inferior cows £4 to £0 ss, weaner calves, good, £-2 15s to £4 10s, 'others £1 'ins to £2 12s 6d, bulls 7gns tor loigns, large quantity of beef at fully Westfield rates. Fat steers to £lB, fat cows to £l4 ss.

At Wcstfield fat stock market on Wednesday beef was penned in average numbers. Competition was firmer, the mar-' ket showing an upward tendency, although quotations are the same. Best oxen sold to £3 lis per lOOib, others £? 5s to £2- 10s per 1001b, cow and heifer beef sold at from £2 2s to £2 Ss per 1001b, steers sold at from £l4 5a to £2l 7s Od, cows and heifers sold at from GO to £lB 5s for a cow fatted bv Mr. Ja*. Taylor, Cambridge. Run!n'ors made from"£s 12s Od to £0 ss, hfavv vealers £4 to £5 2s ; Gd. medium £2 10s to £3 17s Od. iigh't 27s (id to £2 7s Od, fresh dropped 12s to 255, weak and inferior 5s to 10s. Sheep were penned in full numbers and sold at improved rates. Be«t wethers sold at from £1 Ms fid to £1 17s, others £1 10s fid to £1 13s l)d, best ewes £1 9s to CI 13s od, others £1 (is to £1 Ss 9d, hoggets £1 °.s Cd to woolly wethers £l 19s to £2 3a (id, woolly hogget' £1 Ms to £1 IDs (id. Lambs'were penned in largo numbers, and sold under steady competition at improved prices. Best €1 4s to £1 9s 'id. others 17s to £1 3s Od, inferior lis Od to 1B« 6d. Pigs: A large yarding. Prices easier than previous week. Choppers and heavy baconers sold from £5 to £6. others £4 2s to £4 17s fid, large porkers £3 7s Cd to FA, medium £2 12s fid to £3 ss, light 35s to £2 10s, slips 24s to 31s, weaners 15 3 to 235.