STOCK MARKET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 October 1929, Page 3

STOCK MARKET.

MARAEKAKAHO SALE,

(By Telegraph —Press Association.) HASTINGS, Tuesday.

For the opening day of the Marackakaho Station stud stock dispersal sale about 150 were present. Clydesdales were taken first. The bidding was spirited for the best stuff. For mares, prices ranged from five guineas to one hundred and sixtytwo guineas, the latter price being paid by Mr D. McKenzie (Masterton) for Maraekakaho Lady Meikle. Fillies ranged from twenty-four guineas to forty-ono guineas, a Canterbury buyer obtaining Maraekakaho Lady Lome at the latter price. For stallions the top price was one hundred and thirty guineas, which was paid by Mr E. M. Hutchinson (Gisborne) for the two-year-old High Tide.

SPRING CATTLE FAIR.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson ancl Co., Ltd., report:—Wo held our annual spring cattle fair in the Colombo Load yards yesterday, when a big entry of cattle came forward, our entry totalling 560 head of well-bred cattle. The Associated Yards could not accommodate all the cattle yarded and the yearlings w:ero all penned up in the Distributing Company’s yards, which were lent for the occasion. The sale attracted numerous buyers from all parts of the Wairarapa, and outside districts were also strongly represented, and although most of the store cattle were bought locally a largo percentage of the fat cattle was purchased by outsido buyers. A special feature of the sale was the particularly heavy entry of fat cattle yarded and included in our offering were some prime bullocks and cows, all of which met with keen competition and prices were well up to those ruling at this year’s previous fairs. At the commencement of the sale, when some big pens of 3 and 4-year bullocks were offered, bidding dragged somewhat, and one or two pens were passed in, but bidding brightened up considerably as the sale progressed and every pen was sold under the hammer, and the passed in lots offered earlier in the sale were eventually sold by private treaty. Store cows met with a very ready sale, especially pens showing any condition. Yearling steers and heifers were, in good demand, and we effected a total clearance under the hammer at the following rates:— Account Mamakau, 4-year bullocks, £l2 10s; fat cows (light), £lO 4s; store cows £B. Account 0. R. Judd, 3-yr bullocks, £lO 6s; fat cows, £l2 6s. Account R. A. Cameron, 3-yr steers, £lO. Account R. Cooper (in conjunction), fat cows, £ls 10s; fat heifers, £ls. A/c. lan Macßac, fat cows, £l4, £l2; fat heifers, £l3 16s; store cows, £7 6s; fat steers, £l4. Account Admiral Station, fat heifers, £l3 6s; fat bullocks, £l7 6s to £l7 10s. A/c Peter Andrew, fat bullocks £l6 10s; yearling steers, £6 11s. A/c. Foreman Bros., fat cows; £l3 6s; fat heifers, £l3 10s. A/c Andrew Bros., Ica, fat cows £l2 6/-; store Bullocks, £lO 10s; yearling steers, £6 6s. A/c E. Pain, yearling steers, £6 14s; yearling heifers, £5 6s. A/c Kummer Bros., 2-year steers, £8 10s. A/c R. Donald, 2-year steers, £9 7s. A/c. C. Algie, yearling steers, £6 2s; 2-vear heifers, £7 6s.

LOAN AND JVtBROANTILE CO. Tlie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows on their spring cattle fair, held yesterday: —A full yarding of all classes of cattle came forward, being slightly in excess of advertised numbers. The top end of the offering was equal to that of previous sales, although no outstanding lines were offered by us in 4-year bullocks, the few pens of which were sold on a par with late Tates. Fat cattle fully maintained late values. We particularly mention a splendid line of cows and heifers sold in conjunction with Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., on account of Mr Robert Cooper, of Gladstone, sixteen cows on account of this vendor topping the market at £ls 10s per head and nineteen heifers on account of the same vendor realising £ls. Two and 3-year steers sold particularly well according to quality and condition. All the young cattle met with a keen competition and were yarded in the N.Z.F.D.C. yards, which were kindly lent for the occasion. A lino of forty yearling P.A. steers on account of Langdon Bros, made £6 6s; a lino of 70 P.A. cross yearling steers on account J. H. Percy made £6 9s. We offered approximately 500 head, all of which were sold under the hammer and by private treaty as follows: —Store Cattle.—Four-year bullocks on account McKay Bros., £l2; a/c Rewa Rewa, £ll 17/6. Three-year bullocks, a/e Rewa Rewa, £lO 10c; other various lines of 3-year steers made £8 15s to £lO according to condition. Two-year steers, account Rewa Rewa, £8; a/c J. McKenzie, £7 17/6. Yearling steers, account J. H. Percy, £6 9s; a/e Larehbank, £6 6s; smaller lines made £5 19/6 to £6 4s. Yearling' heifers ranged from £3 los to £6. Cows with calves at foot, £6 10s; empty store cows, £3 19s. Fat Cattle.—Account R. Cooper, 14 fat cows, £ls 10s; 19 fat heifers, £ls. A/c A. and J. Gray, medium fat bullocks, £ls. A/e Larehbank, fat cows, £11; medium fat cows made from £S 10s to £lO.