COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10432, 25 September 1911, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTION SALE. Messrs A. J. Johnson and Co. report as follows regarding their weekly salo on Saturday last:—Ducks, 2s; pullets, Is 8d to 2s 6d; roosters, 2s; chicks, 5d to Is.

SPRING HORSE FAIR AT CAMBRIDGE.

On Sept-emher 12th to 15th the Farmers' Co-operative Association held their annual spring horse fair at Cambridge. Considering the 'season the horses were brought forward in, very good condition; some of the drafts from regular clients and breeders were in splendid order, and the owners of these must have given a great deal of attention and spent a lot in feed to -bring the horses out in the buckle they were in. The class generally was fully up to our usual spring sales, but the medium draughts, three and four years old, especially representing a splendid lot, but the heavy draughts are get- ' ting scarcer ©very year. Although there would be very few 'of what could be called first-class hacks, toe light horses were a fair lot, and'there was the absence of the weedy and scrubby 1 mabs. Buyers were represented from all parts of the North Island, and Australian buyers were also represented. Competition was good from start to finish and prices really improved as the sale went on. As ha 3 been the case at our last three annual spring sales, draught horses have easily outnumbered the entry of light horses, farmers realising that the former show much the better return for feeding, at the same time the' man that brings forward.a good serviceable hack or light harness sort can get a good price. To breed these, however seems a harder problem than getting the ordinary farm horse, and the difference appears that in breeding the draught nine out of ten are useful and profitable to rear, while in the light class perhaps on© in ten is remunerative to the actual breeder. Heavy draughts, three to. five -years old, mad© £44 to £52; medium draughts, same age, £33 to £4O; lighter sorts, same age, £24 to £3O; aged draughts, £l6 to £22; upstanding hacks and light hartfOßs horses of good class, £2O to £29; useful hacks and harness horses, £l3 to £18; ponies and light'hacks, £8 to £l2. Unbroken horses also sold well, and the same quotations apply to them. During the four days 763 horses were sold, and 174 failed to reach owners' expectations.

SHARE MARKET.

AUCKLAND QUOTATIONS.

Mr J. T. Henary, sfiarebroker, of Auckland (in conjunction with Messrs C. 0. Ross and Co., his Masterton agents), reports the following quotations of business at the first-call of the Auckland Stock Exchange yesterday morning :

PERMANENT QUOTATIONS.

Messrs CO. Ross and Co., report the following quotations on the "Wellington Stock Exchange. Permanent stocks. Buyers. Sellers.

LOCAL QUOTATIONS. Buyers. Sellers. £ b. d. £ b. d. Worksop dredge 2 10 :i Success'dredge 18,0 Masterton dredge 10 0 Wellington Farmers' Meat, ord. 3 10 0 Wellington Fansers' Meat, pref. 3 10 0 TaW~*amutu 2 3 0

MINING— Sellers. Buyers. £ s. d. £ 8. d; Caledonian 1 3 1 1 May Queen 2 1 1 ll New Sylvia 2 0 1 11 Saxon 1 9 1 7 Waiotahi 3 2 3 1 Waitangi 2 10 2 7 Watchman 1 7 1 3 Ross 2 4 2 0 Crown 2 11 2 9 Tairua Mines 1 fl 9 Talisman G.M. 2 9 6 2 9 0 Waihi 3 10 6 3 9 6 Waihi Extended i 1 10 1 9 Waihi Gnd. June. 1 12 0 1.11- 6

£ 8. d. £ frd. National Bk N.Z. 6 1 6 6 2. 0 Wellington Meat Export £5 6 5 0 Wellington Meat Export, £212s6d 3 6 G Wgtn Wool, pref. 8 1 0 Wgtn wool,.orcl. 4 1 «l Westport Coal 1 9 3 N.Z. Bvncr 2 10 6 Taranaki Oil 16 9 Taringamutu 2 3 0 Union Steam 2 2 0 Taupiri Coal 1 1 9 Westport Stockton r-j 2 0