COMMERCIAL.

Waipa Post, Volume III, Issue 138, 20 August 1912, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report : CAMBRIDGE SALE. At Cambridge on Monday, sth inst., we had a large yarding of fat and store cattle and sheep. There was keen competition throughout for all classes, and most satisfactory prices were realised, the whole entry being disposed of at auction. Prices : Fat steers, light weights, £9 15s, prime fat cows £8 5s to £9 10s, good cows £7 to £7 15s, killable cows £5 15s to £6 ss, empty cows in forward condition £4 12s to £5 ios, store cows £3 ios to £3 18s, 18 months to 2 year old empty dairy heifers £4 to £5 2s, 2% to 3 year old steers £5 to £6 is, 2 year old steers £4 ios to £4 19s, 18 months old steers £3 14s to £3 15s, yearling steers £2 18s to £3 14s, mixed yearlings £2 12s to £3 2s, calves £l 14s • to £2 7s 6d, woolly hoggets 13s 6d to 13s iod, ewes ios iod to I2s 6d, store pigs £1 6s to £l 15s, 18 months old Jersey heifers 4% to 5 gns. HORSE SALE AT HAMILTON. We held a horse sale in the Hamilton Bazaar on Tuesday, 6th inst., when 102 draughts and 117 light horses were offered, and met with a ready sale to a large attendance of buyers. We quote : Young draughts, broken to all work £3l to £3B, farm horses £24 to £29, aged draughts £l6 to £2O, spring carters £l7 ios to £24, buggy and bus horses £l2 to £2O, saddle and harness cobs £7 15s to £lO ios, hacks £ll ios to £l7 10s, ponies £3 to £5. HAMILTON SALE. At our Hamilton stock sale oh Thursday there was a good muster of fat and store cattle and sheep, and all were eagerly competed for by butchers and graziers present. Prices: Fat wethers, £1 is 3d to £l 3s 6d; fat ewes, 14s to 18s, hoggets 16s 6d, fat cov s £7 16s to £8 19s, lighter weights £5 15s to £6 2s 6d, 2% to 3-year-old steers £6 3s, 18 months old empty dairy heifers £4 5s to £5 is, yearling heifers £3 5s to £3 7s, calves in low condition £1 5s to £l 9s, stronger sorts £1 15s to £2 is, dairy cows, close to profit £7 ios to £lO 2s 6d, others £5 to £6 15s, springing heifers £6 5s to £8 7s 6d, backward heifers £4 17? to £5 7s 6d, store pigs £1 6s to £1 ios. CLEARING SALE. On Friday, 9th inst, we held .-. clearing sale at Harapepe, or. account of Mr James Reilly. herd of dairy cows sold from £6 10s to £9 ss, yearling heifers £2 19s, steers £2 Bs, medium draugh: mare £35, gelding £27, yearling colt £l3 ss, Jersey heifers £8 10-. Shorthorn heifers £5 15s to £6 15s, Jersey bull £4 4s, store pig' £l ss, implements, harness, etc., at usual rates. TE AWAMUTU SALE.

At Te Awamutu on Saturday, ioth inst., more than the advertised number of cattle came forward, which brought every pen into requisition. Buyers were present from all the surrounding

district and King Country, and a keen demand existed for everything, resulting in a splendid sale. Prices : —Small frit steers £9 15s, cows £6 15s to £B, yearling heifers £2 19s to £3 15s, pen of choice 2D month heifers £4 2s to £4 10s, 18 month to 2 year steers £3 16s to £4 lis, yearling steers £3 is to £3 Bs, mixed calves to yearlings £2 5s to £2 19s, empty cOws £3 ios to £4 Bs, springing Jersey heifers £8 to £9, Shorthorn heifers (choice and close to profit) £8 ios to £lO 15s, others £6 to £7 lOs, backward heifers £4 12s 6d to £5 7s 6d, dairy cows £6 to 10 15s, fat wethers £l, store pigs £1 2s to £1 13s, breeding sows £3 15s to £3 17s, slips 16s to £l.