COMMERCIAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15340, 1 October 1917, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

N.Z.L. and M.A. CO.'S WEEKLY REPORT. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report for the week ending September 29th-..Sales have been held at Himitangi, Apiti, Rongotea, Palmerston, and Feilding. On Monday at Himitangi we had a full yarding of cattle and a fair yarding of sheep. Competition was good throughout, and we sold thej bulk of the yarding at values slight-* ly in advance of late rates. Fai T / mixed hoggets 20/8, 23/-; small yearling steers £2/13/-, £3; discoloured yearling steers, £4/10/-; goojd yearling heifers, £5; aged store cow£, £5, £5/10/-; fair store cows, £7/5/1-, £B/2/6, £B/5/-, £B/10/-; forwarSd cows, £9/17/6; fat cows, £ll, £l,l 15/-, £l2ll/-, £l3/10/-; cows aiid calves, £B/2/6; springing heifers 35 5/-, £B/15/-, £B/17/6; yearlir\g bulls, £4/15/-, £7/10/-. . I At Apiti on Tuesday a small es- - met with little enquiry. Mixeti yearlings £6, heifers in calf £6/10//, good springing heifers £lO/10/h, weaner pigs 10/-. ( At Rongotea on Wednesday we had a good yarding. Competition was keen for all classes, forward cows selling particlarly well. Fat b.f- hoggets 2!Js 4d, fat ewes 275, small yearling heifers 30s, yearling heifers £4 15s, heifjp-s r.w.b. £5 17s 6d, store cows £7, jEB os, £8 9s, £8 10s, forward cows £8 IBs 6d, £9 6s, £9 16s, £9 17s 6d, £W, fat cows £lO, £lO 7s 6d, £lO 17s % £ll 10s, £l3. 1 At i'alerston on Thursday, we hM a small yarding of sheep and a fa* entry of cattle. Competition waj| good throughout and the bulk of tim yarding sold at late rates: Small hogl gets 16s, 17s lOd, 21s 6d t good mixed noggets 335, prime fat ewes 37s 9d, yearling heifers £4, £4 7s 6d, aged store cows £5 Is, heifers in calf £6, £6 7s 6d, £6 12s 6d, £6 17s 6d, springing heifers £7 15s, £B, £8 15s, £9, £lO 10s, 18-months bulls £5 17s 6d, £8 15s. At Feilding on Friday, a small entry of sheep and a goodly yarding of cattle < met with a brisk sale, all lines selling freely'Hmder the hammer. Inferior ewe* with lambs at foot, 31s 9d; medium hogffi gets, 24s lid; good hoggets, 29s to 306|| lig-ht fat wethers, 38s; yearling £4 16s; yearling steers (inferior), £f| 5s to £5 10s; forward cows, .£8 4s to £9; rough steers, £ll 6s to £ll I3e; steers, £l3 19s to £l4 Is and up to £l4 15s; 4-year bullocks, £l6 16s; springing heifers, .£9 17s 6d; light fat heifers, £lO 7s 6d to £l3 10s; light fat cows, ,£l2 ss; light fat bullocks, £lB 10s to £2O; yearling Shorthorn bull, £l4 10a.