COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19123, 7 December 1933, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

SALE AT HASTINGS. BEEF PRICES EASIER. HASTINGS, Wednesday. Values for cow and heifer beef receded about 5s to 10s at the Stortford Lodge sale to-day. A moderate yarding of 200 fat cattle met with a variable market'. The quality' of the yarding was below the average, and this also had a depressing effect on the market. Bullocks were unchanged. Bullooks, medium to prime made £6 12s to £7; cows, medium to prime, £4 2s 6d to £5; others, from £2 17s 6d; heifers, medium to prime, £4 5s to £5 ss; others, from £3. Store cattle met with a good sale for big lines, which realised values on a par with late rates, but smaller roughed lines were slightly easier. Bullooks made £4 to £5; steers, £2 Is to £4 9s; heifers, £1 ’3s 6d to £1 18s. A moderate yarding of fat sheep realised improved prices, values for lambs, ewes and wethers being on a par with those of last week. Export buyers were operating chiefly in lambs and wethers. Ewes, shorn, medium to. prime, realised 11s 6d to 13s 6d; others, from 10s 3d; wethers, shorn, medium to prime, 19s 6d to 20s 9d, others, from 18s; lambs, 17s to 2ls. A small entry of store sheep realised prices much on a par with those of last week. Wethers, shorn, made 17s 4d to 19s; ewes, shorn, 5s Id to 18s; ewes and lambs, all counted, 10s 3d to 12s 4d. HIKUTAIA STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report: At Hikutaia' stock sale on Wednesday a heavy varding of pigs was- penned, good stores and porkers selling particularly well under keen competition. Weaners and slips were penned in good numbers, but were duller of sale. A medium yarding of dairy he i fer ® showed no variation In values. Beef was easier, while store cattle maintained late rates. Quotations: Pigs. —Porkers, heavy, 35s to 395; lighter, 31s to 345; good stores, 22s to 30s; slips, 13s to 18s; weaners, 7s to 10s 6d. Cattle. —Springing Jersey and Jersey cross heifers, £3 5s to £4 15s; poorer sorts, £2 10s to £3; dairy cows, £3 10s to £4; fat heifers, £2 5s to £2 13s; medium fat cows, £2 10s to £3 11s; light fat cows, £1 19s to £2 8s; heavy store cows, 34s to 375; boners, 18s to 295; potter hulls, £3 to £3 17s 6d.

OTOROHANGA STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report having held their stock sale on Wednesday, when the usual full yarding of pigs was penned, all classes remaining at unchanged rates. Sheep: A medium yarding which was In good demand. Cattle: Only a small entry, mostly of boner cows and bulls, with good competition for both. Quotations: Pigs.— Store pigs, 24s to 26s 6d; slips, 18s to 22s 6d; weaners, 12s 6d to 17s 6d. Sheep: Shorn 2-tooth ewes, 20s; shorn 4-tooih ewes, 15s to 19s ifld; medium owes and lambs, all counted, 13s Id. Cattle: Heavy boner cows, 26s to 325; lighter boner cows, 14s to 245; medium 15 months’ Jersey and Jersey cross heifers, £2 to £2 4s; heavy potter bulls £3 15s to £5 Is; lighter potter bulls, 30s to £3. OTOROHANGA SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, report on their Otorohanga stock sale, held on Wednesday, as follows: Fat cattle were in short supply, there being practically no finished cattle yarded, though medium quality and stores were penned in about the usual numbers. Competition was quite good, and everything changed hands at values fully up to Frankton rates. We also yarded a few store steers and a few pens of small yearling heifers, all of which sold well. Several large pens of fat wethers and hoggets, and also a couple of lines of ewes arid lambs, met with an exceptionally brisk demand, and good prices were secured. There was a full entry of pigs, stores and weaners again comprising practically the whole entry. The demand was steady, with no alteration in values from the previous sale being recorded. We quote:— Cattle. —Heavy fat cows, £4 to £4 14s; good quality fat cows, £3 7s Od to £4; medium, £2 7s 6d to £3 ss; forward store cows, £1 15s to £2 ss; medium, £1 4s to £i I2s; inferior, 16g to £1 3s; plain conditioned grown store sleet's, £3 9s; small yearling heifers to £1 15” s; potter hulls, up to £3. A pen of 35 quality woolly hoggets, £1 2s sd; medium hoggets, 19s to £1 2s 6d; 41 fat. wethers, £1 2s 8d; heavy fat wethers, £1 Is to £1 3s; good quality, 19s to £1 Is. Pigs. —A pen of 34 two-tooth ewes, £1; a pen of 57 ewes, with lamlls, £1 9s Id; medium porkers, £1 9s to £1 I is; light, £1 5s to £1 8s; large stores, £1 is to £1 4s; smaller, 19s to £1 is; slips, 14s to 17s 6d; large weaners, 12s to 14s; smaller, up to i i s. Horses. —A few only of the advertised horses changed hands. Values were; Heavy draught mare, £32; light farm horses, £ls to £l7; best hacks, up to £6 15s.