COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14098, 15 April 1920, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

MASTERTON STOCK SALE. The Now Zealand Loan and Morcauti.lt* Agency Co., Ltd., report on thoir weekly Mastevto.ll sale as follows: We offered a small yarding of sheep to a «ood attendance of buyers. All classes were in good demand, arid we disposed of all lines under the hammer. We quote: —4-year empty ewes, 24s 4d, cull 4-year ewes, lbs. Messrs -Dalgety ant Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly stock sale in the Colombo road yards yesterday, when they submitted a good yarding ot stock to a large attendance of buyers. Competition for ail lines of sheep was keen, and a total clearance was effected, but the demand for cattle was very limited, and although prices were not high, vendors met the market on. most Hues’. The following prices were realised: —Small 4-tooth wethers, 295; b.t. 2-tooths, 28s to 29s 4d; cull lambs, 12s; cull ewes, 12s to 21s 3d; cows and calves, £8; light fat steers, £l2 /s Od. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Distributing Co., Ltd., report on their Mastcrton sale as follows:—We had a fair yarding of sheep and a good entry of cattle, comprising 140 head. Bidding at auction for all lines ot sheep was exceptionally keen, every line being disposed of under the hammer at very satisfactory prices. Competition for all cattle offered was dull, and they were extremely hard to quit at auction, but before the close oi the sale we had disposed of our total entry, with the exception of one pen of cows and calves, at the following price:& —2l6 brood mixed age ewes in lamb to Lincoln rams, 345; 70 forward, ewes, 25s 2d; 63 woolly wether lambs, 23s- ’l2 extra heavy fat ewes, 31s 9d; 17 b.f. lambs, 13s 2d; 12 store^ ewes, 19s Id; 5 light fat bullocks, £ls 10s; 34 18-montli heifers, £4. 15s; 8 18month steers, £5 13s; 14 mixed steers, £3 7s 6d; empty heifers, £5 t a 6d; cows and calves, £5 5s to £o 12s; store cows, £3 17s to £5; yearling steers, £~ 15s, £3 to £3 10s; potter bujl, £3. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report having offered a heavy yarding of cattle and a fair yarding of sheep at their weekly sale yesterday. They report as follows: —We offered 315 head of cattle and 1035 sheep, and effected a total clearance at auction. We quote:—Sheep. —Ewes, mixed ages, 17s 9il to 225; shorn w.f. lambs, 15s to 17s;' cull w.f! lambs, 0s 3d; cull bX lambs, 13s; 2-tooth wethers, 265, culltooth wethers, 20s; aged rams, 20s <>d; Cattle.—Steers, 3-year, small, to £9 12s- empty cows with calves, £< 10s to £8 Is; cows in calf, £4 llsj pmpty sta ' tion heifers, £4 Ids to £•-> 10s; iu.i 3. weaners to £2 17s; empty cows, £6 3s to -. £8; potter bulls, £4 los to £7 os. The Wairarapa Farmers’ Stock Department report on their Masterton sale yesterday:—We offered 3100 sheep and a few cattle to a attendance ot buyers. Competition was exceptionally keen, and we had a total clearance sit prices (in many cases) well oyer vendors’ reserves. Aged ewes running with S.D. rams, 23s 3d to 23s 10d; good store ewes, 27s 4d; lighter sorts, 22s to 23s 10d; good 2-tootli wethers, 31s; small 2-tooth wethers, 25s 3d to 265? culls, 16s; w.f, wether lambs, -Is; small, 16s 3d; b.f. lambs, _ 16s; cows (spring calvcrs, light condition), £lO 15s; weaner steers, 355.

SKETAHUNA CATTLE FAIR. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report bavin" held their autumn cattle fair at Eketahuna on Monday last, when they submitted a good yarding of cattle to a large attendance. Competition was dull, and very few lines changed hands, the only class of cattle for _ winch there was any keen demand being dairy heifers, and these sold well The following are the prices realised:—lß- - P.A. steers, £7; 18-month m.s. coloured cattle, £4 19s; 2-ycar station heifers in calf, £4. 19s; cows and calves in poor condition, £5; dairy heitors, £7 15s to £10; Jersey weaner heifers, £4. THE PARORANGI SALE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) FEILDING, Wednesday. Mr Ernest Short’s sale of his Paroranai Hereford stud cattle was concluded in the Feilding saleyards to-day. There was a large and representative •fathering, and there was a clcaianco of battled width will go to all parts of the Dominion. Some were bought for a Victorian breeder. Lustre 11. went for 410gns. General Sir Andrew Russell bought ‘the bull Chancellor 104th for 200gns. The averages for the sale were:—l6B cows, including 50 aged cows, £36; 48 3J-year heifers, £44 10s; 37 24-year heifers, £3O; 45 18-month heifers, £23 14s; 44 heifer calves, £ls 10s; 23 bull calves, £34. The bulls sold to the advantage of the buyers.