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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13966, 16 August 1919, Page 2

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The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, repoirt:

At Westinejd' fa* stock market! oto Wednesday beef was pemiaed in scarcely avergie numbers, wii'th compieitdtion not «o keen, and with prices slightly easier. Choice* ox sold to £3 4 S per lOOlb; prime ox sold at from £2MBs to £3 2 8 iper 1001b; cow and: heifer beef ©old at fromx £2 12s bo £21 17s per 1001b. No teptra heavy cattle . -were yarded. Steers sold a* from £16 to £2!4. 7s 6d); cows and heifers sold at from £9 10s to £1,6 ss. Calve s were penned agai*a m< large numbers 1. Runners were easier. Rinnners fro?n £5 10s to £S 11 si; heavy 've&lers, £4 to £5 10s. Sheep am scarcely average "fioimibtarsi ®t>ldi under ikieeu. competition! at Im pawed proioes. Extra heavy wethers, £2 T2! s to 1 £2 17s 6d; heavy primie wethers, £2! 7« to £2 Us 9. No extra heavyi ewes were panned. Heaivy prime ewes, £1 18 S to £2! 3s 6d. Hoggets) penned Ani averagie nuimibers, also -sold to high values. "3est, £1 12 S to £1 17s. Pigs were penned in. smaller numbers, with prices isligh'tly under last -week's eortratne prices. Chopper s amd heaivy baooners, £8 to £9 4s; medium to hea,vy baccwi«rs, £6' to £6 ss; heavy porkers, £4 5 S to £4 lSs.