COMMERCIAL.

Waipa Post, Volume III, Issue 141, 30 August 1912, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report: —

TE AWAMUTU SALE

We, held our usual monthly

sale, in the above yards on Saturday last,\when we had a large yarding,' every pen being filled. The total entry was 637 head cattle, besides sheep and pigs. There was a large attendance of buyers, and bidding was spirited, all lines changing hands. We quote :—Fat bullocks to £lO, fat cows £5 18s to £6 17s, fat heifers

£5 to £6 16s, forward cows £4 4s r to £5 is, 3 year steers £5 I2s, 2 year-steers £4 6s to £4 14s, empty r store cows £2 19s to £3 Bs, 2 year empty heifers £4 7s to £4 14s, 18 month empty heifers £3 173, good . yearlings £2 17s to 3s, calves ■off turnips £1 19s to £2 12s, calves in poor condition £l 9s to 325, dairy cows £5 2s to £8 ;,s, springing heifers close to profit £6 5s to £B, a line of choice 2 year heifers on account of Mr McGovern £B, heifers backward in calf £4 to £6, light waggon £l3, fat ewes 13s 6d, forward wethers 18s, slips £l 4s to £l 16s, sows in pig £2 15s to £4 ios, boars £1 is.

The New Zealand Loan and Agency Company, HpLtd.', report:— - W-'' OHAUPO SALE. At Ohaupo on Tuesday last, 13th* inst., we yarded 550 store cattle and 128 'dairy cows and heifers. Although there was a steady demand, prices for youngcattle were a trifle easier; but, nevertheless, nearly everything changed hands at auction or afterwards. We quote: Three year old steers £5 15s to £5 2s, 2 to year old steers £4 12s 6d to £4~155, 20 months to 2 year old i Vsteers £4 2s to £4 ss, yearling steers choice quality £3 8s to £3' qs 6d, mixed yearlings £2 8s to £3,' 18 months to two year old empty heifers £3 17s 6d to £4 6d, yearling heifers £3 2s 6d to £3 lOs, if at cows £6 3s to £7, killable cows £5 I2s to £5 17s 6d, empty store cows £3 12s 6d to £4 2s 6d, dairy cows £5 10s to £8 10s, heifers V lose t 0 P rofit £7 TOs to£ 9 2s ()cl, kVj-Others £6 to £6 17s 6d. Sheep : f* Of the 600 penned fat and forward wethers made tßs to 18s 7d, two tooth ewes in lamb £l. •• MATAMATA SALE.

At Matamata on 14th inst., we yarded 639 head of cattle, also sheep and\ pigs. There was a large attendance of buyers, from Waikato districts, Mamaku, Rotorua and Te Puke, and the whole entry was disposed of under brisk competition. Prices: Heavy ! 'Mfat cows £7 IQs to £Bl4s, medium weights £6 4s to £7, empty cov/s in fresh condition £4 7s to £4 I2s 6d, store cows £3 to £3 13s, breeding cows £4 5s to £4 9V empty 18' months to 2-year-old ' heifers £4 2s to £5, to 3-year-old steers £5 10s to £6 6s, 18 months to 2-year-old steers £3 16s to £4 lOs, yearling steers well grown £3'ss to £3 I2s 6rl, others £2 8s 6d to £2 I6s, best yearling heifers £3 8s 6d to £3 17s 6d;' others £2 9s to £2 19s ; mixed yearlings £2 6s to £2 19s, 3-ycar-old dairy heifers dose to profit £7 to £9, more backward heifers £5 10s to £6 lOs, dairy cows £5 5s to £B, fat wethers 18s, fat ewes 17s 6d to 17s Bd, forward ewes I2S 6d tQ I2s lld, pigs (with unf; satisfied demand, slips JBs 6d to £1 2s, porkers £1 6s to £1 14s.