WAIHI STOCK SALE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6059, 4 November 1920, Page 2

WAIHI STOCK SALE

FOUND HUNDRED HEAD L YARDED, The Farmers' Auctioneering Company » held a stock sale in ithe Wailu municipal builoyards yesterday, coinmeincr.ig at iioou. About 400 head of mixeci i cattle were offered, the majority o. I which were sold under the hammer tit recent rates, wlii'.o some other lots on which sellers ha/1 placed reserves above buyers' valines .were .sold privately afterwards. Although the weather was unfavourable, there was a lair attcnm mice-, aiTil anything showing totality Realised 'satisfactory prices and aoU readily uudeir keen conipetiUon. Taktm as it. whole the cattle penned were- in very fair eXMiditioii, but as at past sales the store stock embraced a number of aitiimavfc carrying more or Jess of tlie Jersey strain, which found little favour with buyers, and consequently changed bauds at comparatively low figures. The- offerings included several Inills, but as itlio majority of these were of inferior a-ypj. and not calculated to improve the breed of sitock in the district they daiinud but scant attention. There was a lair entry in the dairying class, but here again there was in m'ost instances a noticeable absence of quality, but in the case of two or three good norts there was spirited bidding, with sales up to £'26 10s for coWs and to £ll aVid £l2 for heifers ju'lt oonihnr in. An uven line of four-year-ol'd store steers in forward condition was passed in at £l2 15s, and poorer sorts sold to £lO 10s. Tw'o'-and-a-half-year to three-year st|eer s sold from ,L'7 to i'S 15s. two-year-oJd i'.o £G 15s, yearlings from £2 is to £.3 15s, according lo rjimlity. G;i.!'vos( ra'nged UroiH 7s Od to ill. 2s Gil. There was | no demand IW the sluvp panned, and ( fioveral horses (hocks) offered failed to* , reach the reserves. A useful farm sort . on the ligdit side, with harness, solid at | £29 10s.