COMMERCIAL.
Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their first Sheep Fair of the season at Ngaruawahia on Friday the 6th inst. There was a laige attendance of buyers, and bidding was brisk throughout the sale, every line changing hands. Quotations are as follow : —Best woolly lambs
lis id to I is sd, others from 4s Bd, shorn lambs to 7s id, 4 and 6-tooth wethers to 17s 6d, 2-tooth wethers 13s 7d to 16s 2d, 2-tooth ewes 13s to 15s 3d, 4 and 6-tooth ewes 14s 6d to 16s, f.m. ewes lis 8d to 14s 3d, s.m. ewes 9s toils9d, cull rams 6s to I2s.
The Nqw Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., re- 1 port:— < HAMILTON SALE. 5 At Hamilton on Thursday, sth ’ inst., we offered a fair yarding of cattle and sheep, which nearly , all sold. Prices • Fat cows £5 7s to £6 10s, cows in fresh condition £4 4s to £4 7s 6d, store cows £3 I2s to £3 17s 6d, 15-month steers £2 15s to £3 is, 15 to 18-month heifers £2 Lss to £2 18s calves £1 7s 6d to £l 16s, fleshy bulls £4 ios to £7 15s, according to weight, fat ewes 16s 6d, fat lambs 14s, 2-tooth wethers 13s to 15s, bacon pigs £2 5s to £2 15s, good porkers £1 8s to £1 16s, slips £1 to £1 ss, weaners 9s to 17s 6d. TE AWAMUTU HORSE FAIR. j We held a horse sale at Te Awamutu on Friday last, 6th j inst., when we offered 89 broken horses, and 26 unbroken. There was no demand for the latter, but - useful workers were wanted, and we report a successful sale, 64 1 horses changing hands. Those ] passed in were of the weedy class. Prices : Draughts broken to all work £27 10s to £36, horses suitable for plough £lB to £23, saddle and harness cobs £7 15s to £ll los, ponies £2 10s to £5, a few unbroken light-sorts £4 15s to £lO. TE AWAMUTU SALE. At Te Awamutu on Saturday last, we yarded 894 head of cattle, which were required by buyers' present from the King Country and Waikato districts, practically the whole entry being cleared. Fat cows made £6 to £7 12s 6d, 2 Vi to 3-year steers in gooji condition £5 10s to £6 2s 6d, |6 to 18 month steers £3 14s to £3 18s, 12 to 15-month steers £2 iosr to £3 Os sd, heifers £2 5s to £2/15s,* one pen good quality £3 2si)d, 2-year heifers been with bulh&4 5s to £4 , 16s, empty cows £3 A to £4 5s Smcording to condition, strong cafyes £.l 5s to £1 Ilfs, others 14s to r&s, bulls £6 2s ($d to £6 15s, store pigs £ I 8s to|£l l6s, slips 16s to Ti s 3s. I
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Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 289, 13 February 1914, Page 3
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