COMMERCIAL

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3251, 5 November 1932, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

TE AWAMUTU STOCK SALE. At Te Awamutu on Thursday the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company had an entry of fat cattle consisting of several pens of medium-quality ox beef and the usual number of fat cows. Prices throughout failed to reach this week's Frankton quotations, although vendors' reservations were few. Store and boner cows met with the usual demand. The fairly large offering of store steers as advertised met with fairly keen demand, the whole entry excepting one pen being sold at prices comparing favourably with outside late quotations. The entry also included a fairly large number of yearling heifers, which brought full market values. The best of an unusually heavy entry of bulls sold at satisfactory prices. Good-quality ox beef made £5 2s 6d to £5 15s, medium ditto £3 19s to £4 15s, fine fat cow and heifer beef £2 16s to £3 12s, medium quality £2 to £2 15s, lighter ditto £1 13s to £1 17s 6d, good store cows 18s to £1 6s, inferior 15s to 17s 6d, well-grown, forwarded conditioned store steers £3 Is to £3 lis, medium-quality ditto £2 6s to £2 17s 6d, poorer-conditioned £1 12s to £2 ss, best ditto £1 10s to £2, inferior to £1 ss, good grade bulls £5 to £7 ss, others to £4 15s. Smaller numbers of dairy cattle than have been coming forward recently were offered to a fairly large crowd of buyers. The entry generally was of poorer quality, and the market showed a decreasing tendency. Good-quality cattle throughout were in keen demand, values being very firm. Goodquality dairy coavs and heifers made £6 15s to £B, medium sorts £5 to £6 10s, others £4 to £4 15s. Values for sheep were about on a par with late Frankton quotations for a medium entry of all classes of fats. Medium fat wethers made 10s 6d to 12s, inferior 9s 6d to 10s 3d, prime hoggets lis to 13s, prime fat ewes 6s 4d to 8s 4d, others to 6s, spring lambs lis to 12s. There were only a few odd lots of fat pigs entered, the majority of the balance being stores and weaners; prices for these latter decreased slightly in sympathy with outside quotations; light baconers made £1 8s to £1 13s, medium porkers £1 4s to £1 6s, large stores 18s to £1 3s, medium ditto 13s to 17s, smaller ditto lis to 13s, large weaners 7s to 9s 6d, smaller ditto to 6s. , TE AWAMUTU HORSE SALE. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report: At Te Awamutu horse sale on Wednesday 100 horses of all classes came forward. There were very few good reliable hoi'ses entered, and everything genuine attracted good attention. The demand for older horses and hacks was not brisk.

Three year unbroken colt £l9, other unbroken horses £1 5s to £5, stud book mare £3B 10s, good draughts with trial £23 to £3O, older draughts with trial £8 to £l7 10s, good draughts broken to chains £22 to. £2B, others £6 to £lO 10s, useful farm horses £7 10s to £l2 10s, hacks 15s to £2 7s 6d.