AUCKLAND MARKETS.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5726, 1 October 1914, Page 3

AUCKLAND MARKETS.

Messrs Alfred Bucklaud and Sons report ; Yestcrilay at the Weslfield fat stock market there were 541 fat cattle penned. The quality was first-class throughout, and there was a steady demand at about last week's quotations. Choice beef sold to £ 1 17s 6d per ioolb; prime, £\ 14s 6d to £ 1 16s; cows and heifers, £1 8s to £1 14s. Steers ranged from £8 's s to'x'T 5 S > ll "d cows heifers from £5 10s to /12 2s 6d. Twenty choice quality steers from Messrs R. and \V. Gollan.Panmure, averaged £\s 2s 6d. A draft of 51 cows and heifers averaged £9 6s 6d. There were 10S fat and young calves yarded, but they were in excess of requirements, and in consequence prices were easier. Runners sold up to ,/,4 17s 6d; heavy suckers, £l ios 'to /.4 ss; medium, £ 2 to £ 2 16s; lighter, £ 1 4s to £ 1 15s; light, 15s to /1 2s; freshly dropped, }s to 13s. There was a heavy yarding of sheep, and all were of prime quality. The demand was less keen than last week, and generally pi ices were lower. Extra heavy prime woolly wethers made from £\ 9s 6d to £\ los6d; shorn, £\ 4S to £ ' 5S 6d; one small pen of extra heavy shorn, £1 8s yd; heavy prune woolly, £l7sto£l 8s 6d ; shorn, £l os medium to heavy woolly, /. 1 4s to /.i 6s; shorn. 17s 6d to £1 ; best heavy prime woolly ewes, £\ 4s to £\ 7s ; shorn, £l to £1 2s ; otherwoolly ewes, £1 to £\ 3s. Spring lambs sold readilv. Best made up to £1 ts6d; smaller, 16s to iSs; light, ns to 14s. Pigs were penned in large numbers, and values were easier. Choppers made up to 17s 6d; heavy bacouers, £3 usto/,4; medium, /33 s l 0 £i ll ** heavy porkers, £2 15s to £3 ; medium, £2 2sto £2 12s; light, £ 1 us to £2;

slips, £1 to £1 8s; weaners, 15s to £l

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report: At the Westfield Yards on Wednesday, fat cattle came forward in large numbers. The qualit) was not up to last week, and no extra heavy-weights were yarded. Prime oxen made up to 37s 6d per ioolb, others 34s to 36s per ioolb; cows and heifers, 30s to 35s per ioolb. Steers sold at horn £<■) ios to /15 ios; cows and heifers, £4 to/" 12. A draft of jo steers from the Okahukura estate averaged £l4 '7 s . " ikl 3" cows k, ' ul the same estate averaged £S lOS, Many other consignments averaged Over/13. Veal calves came forward in large numbers.aud sold at late rates. Heavy vealers made from ./. 3 19s to £.\ 13s, medium weights £2 10s to /31s, lighter sorts, £2 to £2 ys, smaller 20S to 38s, small and freshly dropped 3s to 18s. Sheep came forward in very huge numbers. Well tatted sold at last week's rates, and interiorly fatted were a little easier. Best woolly wethers made from 2Ss to 32s yd ; others 24s to 27s yd; shorn wethers 21s to 26s 3d; woolly ewes, 20s yd to 26s yd; shorn ewes, tSs 6d to 235. A draft of 100 wethers from Mr A. Main, Tamahere, averaged £1 12s 3d, Hoggets, made from 17s 6d to 22s 6d. Spring lamb-, sold at from £1 to £1 3s 6d. There was ,1 good supply of pigs, which sold well. Large bacouers made from £.\ to £5 6s, bac iicis, /.;, to ~{,3 18s; large porkers, £2 Ss to £2 iys, porkers /, I ios to £2 5s ; slips, 20s to 28s; good weaners 13s to 22s gel, others, 2s Od to SS. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their weekly fat stock bale at Westfield yesterday. Beef: There was a large yarding, and prices were on a par with iate rates. Choice pens of extra] nine ox sold at equal to 37s per ioolb. Ordinary quality prime ox made 15s to 565, and cow and heifer beef from 28s lo Vis per ioolb. Veal: There was a large yarding, which -.old at late rstes. Heavy runners made up to £5 16s; ordiuarv ditto from /35s to £\ ios; heavy suckers, fiom £2 5* to £2 15s'; small s -it-,. 18s to 325; others, ,|s to 17s. .Million: Time was a large yarding, and prices were about is 6d per head lower than last week, while the demand was weak. Extra heavy woolly wethers made up to iys; ordinary quality medium weight wethers, 25s'to 27s 6d; light and unfinished, 21s 6d to 245. Heavy woolly ewes made 22s to 25s 6-1; medium, iys to 12s; heavy shorn wethers, 23s to 265; medium, from 20s to 225; heavy shorn, from -'os lo 22s ; medium, to iys. Lamb: A (an number was yarded. Prime lambs made 20s to 23s 6d; best woolly hoggets, iys to 20s,and others 17, 6.1 to'lßs yd. fork: There was a large yarding, which sold at late rates. Bacouers sold at equal to 5« P er lb J porkers to 6d per lb ; stores and weaners made from 15s to iys 6d.