COMMERCIAL

Waipa Post, Volume 51, Issue 3695, 9 December 1935, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

TE AWiAMUTU STOCK SALE. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, report on their Te Awamutu stock sale held on Thursday as follows:— — Cattle: In number ox beef was well represented but most were of mediocre quality only. The fat cows and heifer pens were again filled to capacity and contained many well finished animals. There was a large bench of both local and outside butchers and very animated competition resulted. Prices throughout were fully up’ to the best recent quotations. The store and boner cows which were yarded in very heavy numbers, elicited brisk bidding, a free sale ensuing throughout at full late market rates. Practically everything in the fat and stores sections changed hands. Yeai l,; n rr heifers of which there was several pens of good cattle yarded were well sought after while many potter bulls participated in the strong enouiry current for this class of stock. A number of dairy cows were as expected, somewhat slachei but a few good ones sold quite well. Wje quote: Medium to good quality bullocks £lO 10s to £ll 10s, medium weight bullocks £8 15s to £lO ss, prime heavy cows and heifers £9 3s 6d to £ll, heavy fat cows and heifers £7 15s to £8 15s, good quality beef cows £6 5s • o £7 10s, medium fat cows £4 15s to £5 ss, light do £3 to £4 ss, fresh young forward Jersey cows £2 2s to £2 15s, plain cull cows £1 14s to £2, boners to £1 11s, medium yearling Jersey heifers £2 10s to £2 16s, others £2 3s, heavy potter bulls £7 2s 6d to £B, medium £5 to £6 15s, others to £4 10s, good dairy heifers £5 5s to £6 15s’ others £4 to £5, inferior to £3 10s. Sheep: A fair-sized yarding comprising about equal proportions of fill classes of sheep came forward. The market for fat sheep was slightly easier although a good clearance was made. Some ewes with lambs sold briskly. We quote: Good woolly wethers SI 4s to £1 6s 9d, medium shorn wethers £1 3s to £1 4s 6d, light wethers to £1 2s 4d, plain fat ewes 12s to 13s 7d, inferior 11s to 12s, heavy hoggets £1 4s to £1 7s 9d, medium £1 2s to £1 14s, others to £1 Is 6d, medium fat lambs 19s to £1 2s, pen of 110 5-year ewes with lambs at foot 16s 9d all counted. Pigs: Both the fat and store pig pens were all well filled, the yarding being exceedingly heavy. Many buyers were operating in the fat section and generally a good sale resulted with little variation from Frankton quotations. The store and weaner market was bouyant and rates would be a fraction better than this week’s Frankton’s quotations. We quote: Heavy baconers £2 13? to £2 16s, medium do £2 4s to £2 its, light baconers £1 18s to £2 3s, heavy porkers £1 13s to £1 17s, medium £1 11s to £1 13s, light to £1 10s, large store pigs £1 3s to £1 7s, medium £1 Is to £1 3s, good slips 16s to 19s, medium 13s to 15s, large weaners 8s to 11s.

NGARUAWAHIA STOCK SALE,

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Hamilton, report on their Ngaruawahia stock held held on Friday as follows: A moderate yarding was comprised mostly of light fat and store Jersey cows, but there was a scattering of fairly good beef quality included. The demand was quite strong and both fat and stores sold on a par with ruling quotations. A few bulls Avere slightly easier, whilst a number of dairy cows did not command much attention, although a few ■ good'ones sold quite well. AVe quote: Good fat cows £4 6s to £5 7s 6d, medium do £3 10s to £4 ss, light fat cows £2 15s to £3 ss, fresh conditioned cows 34s to £2 9s, boners 26s to £2 13s, good dairy cows and heifers £4 5s to £5 ss, others to £4,

MORRINSVILLE STOCK SALE

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Hamilton, report on their Morrinsville stock sale, held on Friday, as follows: Good beef cattle were in small supply, only practically no prime animals being yarded. Medium class beef cows, fresh conditioned Jersey cows and boner cows, however, were yarded in very heavy numbers, whilst we sold also 30 potter bulls and a few dairy cows. Fats met with a keen market, and if anything a slight improvement resulted. Throughout the sale of the good conditioned reject .Jersey cows,, competition was slightly slacker than hitherto, and accordingly the range of prices was on a shade lower standard. In all sections, however, a good clearance was made. Boner cows were up to former levels, but in sympathy with their reduced schedule rates potter bulls eased a fraction. A line of ewes and some store and forward hoggets sold exceedingly well. Our entry of pigs was comprised principally of baconers and the usual demand existed without noticeable flunctuation in prices from Frankton quotations. We quote: Medium quality fat cows £4 17s fid to

£5 14s, lighter quality beef cows £4 to £4 15s, light quality cows and heiferr £3 5s to £4, lcillable Jersey cows £2 12s to £3, fresh conditioned young store cows £2 to £2 10s, plain quality Jersey store cows 31s to £2, boners to 28s, heavy potter bulls £5 14s to £6 2s, medium £4 to £5 10s, inferior to £3 15s, pen of 180 f.rn. breeding ewes 24s Cd, forward quality store hoggets up to 21s 9d, heavy baconers £2 14s to £2 18s, medium £2 18s to £2 12s, heavy porkers 35s to £2 ss, others to 335, store pigs 18s to 24s 6d, slips 16s to 18s, weaners to 15s.

M'ORRINSVIQLE STOCK SALE.

Messrs Dalgety & Co., Ltd., report having held their usual weekly stock sale at Morrinsville on Friday as under: —There was a very large yarding of cattle, every pen being filled. There was a good bench of buyers and nearly a total clearance • was effected at top market rates. Light cow and heifer beef made from. £5 5s to £5 17s 6d, medium quality fat cows £3 5s to £4 12s 6d, light and inferior £2 17s fid to £3 2s 6d, good boners £2 12s to £2 18s, light and inferior 35s to 48s, small ditto 26s to 31s, A pen of good quality yearling Jersey heifers made £2 16s, potter bulls up to £7 16s { for good heavy sorts, medium ditto £4 15s to £5 17s 6d, light and small 35s to £3 2s 6d. A moderate yarding of sheep, 2-tooth wethers to 21s 6d. Pigs: A good yarding of fat and stores came forward and sold under keen competition at very full market rates. Heavy baconers made up to £2 18s, light baconers 45s to 51s, heavy porkers 38s to 435, light 33s to 375.

PUTARURU STOCK SALE.

Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report having held their usual monthly stock sale at Putaruru on Friday, when a full yarding of all classes of cattle was submitted to a large attendance of buyers. Sheep and pigs came forward in small numbers and met with ready competition. Sheep: Fat ewes and lambs in small numbers were sold under spirited competition at well in advance of late rates. Fat ewes and lambs, all counted 28s, fat hoggets 20s fid, fat ewes 15s Cd, ewes and lambs all counted 13s fid, ewes aged 11s 3d to 12. s Pigs: Large stores 25s 6d to 275, slips 20s, weaners best 13s to 15s, others to 10s. Cattle: Dairy cows in milk £3 5s to £3 12s 6d, poorer condition £2 7s 6d to £2 2s fid, others to £2, springing heifers £3 5s to £3 7s 6d, and poorer qualitv £2 to £2 ss, heavy fat cows £7 to £7 10s, lighter £3 15s to £4 10s, killable £2 15s to £3 10s, boner quality £2, others 20s to 30s; pen 2 year black Poll heifers met with keen competition to sell at £4, yearling heifers Shorthorn 32s fid to £2, 2 year Jersey heifers empty £2 to £2 Cs, yearlings to 355, lesser quality 20s to 27s fid, smaller and poor quality 5s to 15s, bulls heaviest £7 to £8 3s, lighter £4 to £6 10s, others £2 10s to £3 15s,

A PERPLEXING QUESTION.

SAFETY FOR PEDESTRIANS.

Why don’t pedestrians on roadways walk on the right-hand side ? They are out of danger of attack from the rear, and can see all approaching traffic. Granted that on some occasions it is impossible for pedestrians to observe this unwritten safety rule. Having regard, then, to this exception, can any of our readers offer an explanation ? Surely some man or woman of the 8000 readers of this journal can think out a satisfactory answer —if there is one.