NEWTON KING'S WEEKLY AUCTION REPORT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12910, 15 July 1905, Page 8

NEWTON KING'S WEEKLY AUCTION REPORT.

At the Hay market on Saturday small store pigs made up to 20s, weaners 5s 6d to 12s, slips 4s. A quantity of sundries a/o'd timber and trees sold at loav prices. At the mart there was only a small supply of poultry, but prices were good. Geese made 3s 3d, ducks 3s, cockerels Is 4d, pullets Is 6d to 4s, hens Is to- 2s. A large quantity oi furniture and sundries made satisfactory prices. Fruit.*—The following were ruling prices durin-gtjthe past week 3—Oranges 6s to 8s 6d, apples dessert 7s to 9s, cookers 6s to 7s, bananas prime 2d R>, inferior 2s to 5s per case. Cattle^~At Stratford on Tuesday weaners made 11s to 18s, good calves 23s to 325, 18 mos steers £2 10s, 2£ to 3 year steers £3 10s to £3 14s 6d, 18 to. 20 mos heifers £2 10s 6d, 2 year do in calf £2 ]7s, store cows' 26s to 50s, old, do 7s 6d, springing heifers £3 10s to £4 10s, springing cows £3 to £5. On Thursday I held a clearing sale on account of Mr J. Lewis at Brooks Road, Stratford. Cows made £3 15s to £6 10s, heifers £3 los to £4 2s 6d, calves £1 Is 6d to £1 Bs. Sundries brought fair prices. I have to report having made the following sales :—Mr J. J. Hill's farm of 469 acres on the Mangaone Road, Kaimata, to Mr W..,P. - Bishop,- of Omata, and a well improved dairy farm, of 122 acres at Tarata, on account of Mjr G. A. Gaustad, totMr W. D. Linn, of Okato..