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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160796, 2 November 1920, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, Nov. 1. The third series of wool sales opened. For good and super-greasy merinos there was a strong demand at late rates, and they sold to thirty pence. Tender sorts were twopence to threepence weaker, while poor sorts scoured were neglected and largely passed. STOCK SALES. Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co., Ltd., report as under:— At our Wanganui yards on' 27th ult. we yarded 600 head cattle and several pens sheep. For -grown cattle there was a keen demand, but younger sorts were harder to quit. We quote:—Aged bullocks £l3 10/- to £ls 4/-; 3-year fresh bullocks £lO 10/- to £l2 4/-; rough do. £8 51- ; prime cows £ls 5/- ; others £lO to £ll 10/-; good store cows £9 10/-; lighter do. £7 11/- to £3 51- ; 2-year heifers ,£6 5/-; bulls £8 15/- to £10: mixed hoggets 25/2; s fat woolly wethers 39/1; fat shorn ewes (good) 30/-; best-porkers £3 19/to £4 12/6; small do; £3 3/-; good : stores £2 7/- to £2 12/-; small, do. 26/-; vealers £1 7/- to £4 12/6. At_ Waverley sale on 29th ult. a small yarding came forward. Quotations Store cows, £8 14/-; yearling heifers £5; springing heifers £l4 to £l6; bulls £5 10/- to £lO. . ; , POULTRY AND PRODUCE. There was a ; fair entry of poultry" at Messrs Williams and Harper’s weekly sale and prices were much the same as the previous week. / Light hens sold at Ss to 10s and heavier birds from 12s to 16s, ducks 12s to los and incubator chicks Is to Is 6d per pair. Weaner pigs realised 31s to 36s and were in keen demand. ' •/ Prices of produce were: Potatoes ilocal) 7s to 10s per sack. South Island l;-’s, -half 9s to 10s, rhubarb 8d per bunch, cabbage, plants 6d per bundle, aprle > in to Ss per half case and 10s