COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19100, 10 November 1933, Page 12

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

MATAMATA STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, Hamilton, report having held their usual stock sale at Matamata on Wednesday when a full yarding of stock came forward and sold under good competition at prices fully up to late rates. Following are the prices realised: — Sheep.—A small yarding. Medium weight fat hoggets, 20s to 20s 3d. Cattle. —A full yarding. Heavy fat cows, £3 16s to £4 6s; medium fat cows, £2 10s to £3 ss; medium fat heifers, £3 to £3 15s; light fat heifers, £2 to £2 15s; heavy boner cows, 35s to £2 ss; ordinary boner cows, 20s to 32s 6d; rough two-year steers, £2 ss; yearling Jersey heifers, good, £3 to £3 6s; medium, £2 to £2 15s; small, 30s to 355; yearling Jiersey bulls, £3 10s to £4 2s 6d; two-year Jersey service bulls, £3 10s to £4> 16s; potter bulls, £2 10s to £4 ss; Jersey heifers, in milk, £3 to £3 10s; springing Jersey heifers, £3 10s to £3 15s; cows in milk, £2 to £3 ss. Pigs.—a full yarding of baconers and porkers, majority porkers, and an extra large yarding of stores, the whole entry changing hands at prices equal to Frankton rates. Prime good quality baconers, £2 18s; heavy baconers, £2 13s to £3 16s; medium, £2 6s to £2 10s; light, £2 to £2 6s; heavy porkers, 36s to £2; medium, 31s to 365; light and unfinished sorts, 27s to 30s; choppers, £2 to £2 8s; best stores, 27s 6d to 295; good stores 23s to 26s 6d; slips, 18s to 225; best weaners, 17s 6d; others, 13s 6d to 16s.

PIO PIO STOCK SALE. i Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their tri-weekly sale at Pio Pio saleyards on Thursday, when a small line of sheep and a medium yarding of store cattle came before an attendance of local 'buyers. The sheep realised late rates, but yearling Jersey heifers and store cattle were dull of sale. Quotations: Fat woolly wether hoggets, 19s lid; yearling Jersey heifers, 26s to 30s; yearling Polled Angus heifers, 245; cull and boner cows, 14s to 17s 6d; empty heifers, 27s 6d to 345; yearling Jersey bulls, 2gns.

WAINQARO STOCK SALE. Messrs G. W. Vercoe and Co., Ltd., report having held a stock sale at Waingaro yesterday, when the advertised yarding came forward. Prices obtained were on a par with late rates and with the exception of one or two pens of odd cattle a total clearance was effected. * Three and four-year-old Red Polled steers from £4 to £4 ss; two and a-half-year-old Red Polled steers to £3 3s; 18-months Red Polled steers, £2 8s to £2 12s; yearling Polled Angus heifers, 30s to 355; yearling Shorthorn steers, 35s to £2 6s; yearling Shorthorn heifers, 25s to 30s; yearling Polled Angus steers; £2 to £2 ss; four-year-old Red Polled bulls, 51 gns. to 81gns.; Polled Angus bulls, signs., to 14igns; dairy cows, £2 10s to' £3 15s.

WAIHI STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Ltd., report that it their Waihi sale another heavy yarding of fat and store cattle came forward, and met with a ready sale at late quotations. Weaner pigs also sold freely at late rates. Quotations. —Pigs: Slips, 18s to 19s; weaners, 15s to 16s 6d. Cattle: ■Light fat steers, £3 2s 6d to £4 16s; fat heifers, £1 15s to £2 15s; medium fat cows, £2 10p to £2 17s 6d; lighter fat cow’s, £1 15s to £2 6s; young store cows, £t 5s to £i 12s 6d; boners, 11s to £1; service bulls, £2 10s to £3 10s; potter bulls, £1 10s to £2 11s; yearling heifers, £1 15s to £2 12s; inferior sorts, 15s to £1; best dairy heifers, £3 10s to £4 ss; best, dairy cows, £2 to £3 ss; cull cows, £1 to £1 10s.