COMMERCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14265, 16 January 1920, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

AUCKLAND MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their weekly sale of fat stock at Westfield on Wednesday as under:— Beef: A good yarding, a large proportion of which was unfinished. Extra prime ox sold at up .to £2 14s per 1001 b; prime ox £2 5s to £2 10s; ordinary quality, 38s to £2 10s; prime cow, £2 7s Gd to £ 210 s; ordinary quality 35s to £2 6s. Mutton: Large yarding. Prime wethers, 33s to 355; good wethers, 28s to 325; ewes, prime, 25s to 28s. Veal: Good yarding. Runners £5 to £6 10s; suckers, £1 10s to £2 10s; young calves, 10s. Pigs: A fair yarding. Baconers, £6 10s to £7 10s; choppers, £6 to £7; porkers, £3 5s to £4 10s; wcaners, £1 ss. Lamb: A full yarding. Prime woolly lambs, 30s to 325, good 23s to 28s, others 8s to 16s. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons, report; On Wednesday at our weekly Westfield fat stock market, we sold fat cattle to the number of 503 head, comprising 308 steers, 185 cows and heifers, and 10 bulls. Th e yarding included a big proportion of plain cattle, and prices for these were lower, owing to the freezing company being unable to take stock from to-day’s sale. Choice ox sold to £2 14s per 1001 b, prime £2 10s to £2 12s, ordinary and plain £2 5s to £2 9s; cow and heifer beef. £2 2s to £2 8s; rough beef, £1 16s to £2. Steers ranged ' price from £8 10s to £22 12s 6d; cows and heifers £5 5s to £l7. The highest Waikato averages for steers were: 16 from Mr W. Scholium, Eureka, £lB 17s 6d; 16 from Mr 11. Sutherland, Matamata, £l7 3s lOd; nine from Mr Wm. Taylor, Greenhill, Te Awamutu, £l6 13s 7d: 16 from •Mr W. J. Ralph, Awaroa property, Taupiri, £l4 16s 3d; 22 from Messrs Death Bros., Waitakaruru, £l4. Sheep were again penned in extra large numbers. Prime mutton was not plentiful, and values are very firm. Wethers, heavy prime, £1 16s 6d to £1 18s 6d (no extra heavy prime wethers came forward), medium to heavy £1 13s 6d to £1 15s 6d, lighter fat £1 9s to £1 13s, light and unfinished £1 3s to £1 8s 6d; ewes, extra-heavy prime £1 13s 6d to £1 15s 6‘d, heavy prime £1 10s to '£l 13s, lighter fat £1 6s to £1 9s, others 16s to £1 4s. culls 7s to 10s 6d (2911 sold). There was a heavy yarding of lambs, the major portion being unfinished. Prime lambs sold well, but all other sorts were easier in value. Extra prime heavy £1 8s to £1 10s heavy prime £1 5s to £1 7s 6d, lighter fl Is to £T4s, light 18s to £l, small and unfinished 10s to 17s, culls 3s to 7s 6d. (1181 sold). Fat voung calves were penned in average numbers. Light and medium vealers of good quality maintained late rates, but other classes were 'easier. No runners were yarded. Heavy vealers £3 5s to £4 10s, medium £2 7s 6d to £3 3s, light £1 10s to £2 ss, small fat 16s to £1 ss, fresh-dropped 8s to 13s (104 sold). There was am average yarding of fat pigs. Competition was jess keen, and prices receded slightly on last week’s quotations. Store pigs were also easier. Choppers from £7 9s to £8 19s; baconers heavy £6 5s to | £7 5s (9 from the Mental Hospital averaged £6 16s 9d), light to medium £5 7s 6d to £6 ss; porkers, heavy £4 4s to £5 5s medium £3 12s 6'd to £4 2s fid, light £2 10s to £3 7s 6d; good slips Horn £1 15s to £2 9s; weaners, 17s to £1 6s (276 sold)'. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency. Co., Ltd., report:— At the Westfield fat stock market on Wednesday, beef was penned in large numbers, being mostly of inferior quality. Competition was keen | for good quality, which improved m 1 price on late quotations. Inferior 1 quality was easier. Choice oxen sold) to £2 16s per 100”->. prime £2 10s to) £2 15s, rough and inferior £2' 4s to £2 I 9s; cow and heifer beef sold at from > £2 4s-to £2 9s per 1001 b; steers sold at from £lB to £23 2s 6d for best. ; others £9 to £l7 15s; cows and heifers sold, at from £7 to £l6 10s. Some of the were; Fourteen steers from Mr H. E. Reed Waerenga £22. 16s; six steers from Mr W. Grav, Cambridge. £lB 16s; two cows from same yendor, £l2 15s; 16 steers from Waikato £lB 14s; 14 small steers-from Mr J. M. Boyd, Ohaupo, £l3 17s; Sheep were penned iu large numbers, being mostly of Inferior quality. Good quality were keenly sought after- and sold at late rates. Inferior quality and unfinished sheep were easier in price. No extra heavy sheep were yarded. iHarv prime wethers £1 13s to £1 17s, i medium £1 9s 6d to £1 12s 9d; light l£l 5s 6d to £1 9s 3d; small unfinished wethers, £1 to £1 5s 3d; heavy prime ewes £1 8s to £1 12s 6d, medium £1 4s 6d to £1 7s 9d, light £1 Is to £1 4s 3d; small unfinished ewes. 10s up- ( wards. Lambs were penned in large nnmbers and sold at late rates. Fixlvn. heavy prime lambs, f ‘ 9s 6cl to £1 12s 6d. heavy £1 5s 9d to £1 9s 3d medium £1 2s 6d to £i 5s 6d, hgot lambs. 18* to £1 2s 3d; unfinished. 10s upwards. Calves were penned m average numbers, a good proportion being'on the poor side. Good fat calves sold at about last week’s unproved prices. No runners were yarded. Heavy vealers £4 15s to medium £3 to £4 14s, light £1 15s lu £2 18s; lighter fat calves, I»s to -1 12s; fresh dropped, 8s- tp 14s. Pigs came forward in average- numbers, the demand lmpro vin S os the sale pros™ - jsed, prices being on a par with last sale. Light to medium baconers, £a 15s to £6 3s; heavy porkers £4 7s to £5 14s, medium £3 18s to £4 7s, hgot £2 to £3-'l7s; weaners (a good entry), from 14s to £1 13s. FARRIERS’ CO-OP. AUCT. CO., LTD The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., repot I • HIKUTATA SALE. At Hikutaia on Tuesday. January L , we held our usual fortnightly stock sale, and varded 510 head or cattic. 400 sheep, and 164 pigs. The beet mutton and pig market was firm., store and vounr cattle dull. We quote: Fat steers, £l4 to £l6 6s; lighter £lO Jo 10 10s: fat cows, £ll 1.. s to £l3, - £lO 11s to £lO ISs; frcsh-coml.-icn c«ws, £8 15S to £!) 7s 6.1; store cows. £(5 o s to £0 10s; two-ycar-ohl stems, £6 5s to £6 15s; two and a-half-year o three-vcar-old empty heifers ~o 14s to £7 4s;‘woancr calves, 20s to —s; udieis. 11s to 12s 6.1; fat sheep '■>' woo, 22 Ssfat shorn sheep, 30s 6d: store two and 'our-tooth shorn wethers, 2Gs; »,o,e K horn ewes. 11s 9,1 to Ms «<1; v ' ; -- trrov.n fat and forward wool,y 225; woolly lambs. Ids 9d; wcaner pigs, 29s to 32s Gd; slips, £2 to ns, porkers, £3 15s to £4 ss: heavy baconCIS £5 15s to £7 4s; heavy hulls, ill to £l3; others, £6 15s to £9_ 15s.