NEWTON KING'S REPORT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16824, 29 November 1916, Page 7

NEWTON KING'S REPORT.

At Douglas on Monday there Avas a good yarding and excellent prices were realised. Mixed yearlings made £5 11s; steer do. £6 4s to £6 17s; 15 to 18----month steers £9 10s; yearling heifers £o 11s to £6 2s; 18-month do. £7 6d to £7 10s; storo cows £7 to £8 os; forward do. £9 12s to £.11 2s; fat cows £12; springing heifers £8 15s to 10 gns; bulls £<j 6s to £7; hoggets 325. ( At Stratford on Tuesday there was a good yarding in the store pens, and considering the advanced stage of the dairying season, a good many springers came forward in the dairy yards. . .Bidding for all classes was very keen, and everything sold at advanced prices. In the dairy yards, springing heifers made £8 10s to £13 10s; heifers at full profit £9 10s; springing cows £9 10s to £16. In the store yards store cows poor made £7 15s to £8 7s 6d; forward ditto £9 os to £11; fat and forward £12 ]5s " bo £ j 3 17s Gd; 12 to 15 months heifers £4 19s to £6 15s; 18-months ditto £6 lbs to £7 7s; yearling steers £6 los; 2-year «mpty heifers £8 ss. At Inglewood on Tuesday there was a big yarding and attendance and everything sold at advanced rates the sale being one of the most successful yet held Springing heifers made £7 10s to £9 10s; good ditto £11 to £13 10s; cows at profit £13 15s; springers £9 15s to £12; store, cows £8 to £9 lls; forward do. 10 gns to £11 10s: hit and forward do. £11 15s to £12 bs; steer yearlings £6 4s to £7 Is; mix*>.d ditto (inferior) £4 14s; Holsteiu heifer yearlings £6 12s to £7; 2-year do., empty, £9 2s; mixed heifer yearn? g?e ' cows and cal™s £9; 'bulls i/ 15s to £14 10s; ewes and lambs' 2 gns; fat ewes £2 to £2 Is 3d; forward t'wes 35s 6d.

At Ivaponga on Friday last there was » good yarding, and attendance, and everything soJ.d at satisfactory pricesStore cows made £7 12s 6d to £9 10s : forward d,x £10 ss, to £11; fat ditto* ~ + fin 's; s PnaSing heifers £10 os to £12 10s; springing cows £14 • empty heifers £9 Bs.

At Rahotu on the same day there was a fair yarding and attendance.— Yearling steers made £6 lls; heiferg £5 14s to £6 15s; 18-montns ditto £7 i ''J™ l'« T SiK 42 t0 £9 12s forward + f Vq ;i i°- r extra prime 18-month steers £8; bulls 10 gns to £14

Messrs. Palgety and Company, Limited, report having received the following cable advice from London:—"The directors have confirmed a dividend of 4s a chare m«king with interim 8 per cent for 12 mouths ended 30th June; also a bonus of 2 3 per share. Half-year's dividend and boms absorb ,£60,000 Have wnttci off profits ,£50,000 to ro-erve fund, ir .tvigr it .£650,000, .£40,000 off premises, .£IO,OOO to s.taff benevolent fund, carrying- forward =£107,544 "•■ .-