COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 7 December 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

WAIPOUA SUPPLEMENTARY I CATTLE FAIlt. Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., and Me s srs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on this fair, held yesterday, as follows:—We submitted a. yarding of over 1000 head of mixed cattle to a large attendance of buyers. Bidding for all lines showing quality was very brisk, and, in fact, taking the sale* right through, prices realised exceeded expectations, and sold well in favour of vendors. The statement made Inst week at Carterton of a decline in the Feildmg market was ceri tainly not borne out by buyers at Masterton to-day, and vendors generally must have been very pleased with .values realised, which were as follows: Extra prime bullocks £27, prime 4yr bullocks £lB to £l9 Is, 3yr steer s £l4 17s 6d, £ls 2s to £ls 3s Gd, 2yr do. £lO, £lO ( Js to £l2 17s, 18-months do. £7 Gs. £7 10s, £9 13s to £lO, yearling steers £7 10s, fat heifers £l7 18s, fat cows £l3 ss, £l3 16s, £l4 ss, £l4 13s to £l7 17s, forward Hereford cows £l4 Is, fat and forward cows £ll Is, £ll lis, £ll 17s, £l2 ss, £l2 lis to £l2 14s, store cows £8 3s, £9 2s to £9 14s, empty 2yr Hereford heifers £l3, empty 18-months S.H. heifers £ll 2s Gd, empty 18-months heifers £6 2s to £6 17s, eow s and calves £ll , 10s, £l2, £l2 7s to £l3 12s 6d, springing heifers £B, springing cows £ll ]'7s 6d, S.H. bull £15," Holstein hull £ll 2s, 3yr P.A. bull bred by H. Hume 30gns, 3yr Hereford bull bred by G. F. Moore 50gns. Sheep : Ewes and lambs 43 H Id to 59s 4d, shorn ewes 3Gs 4d, store woolly ewes 26s 2d.