COMMERCIAL NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21688, 26 March 1942, Page 8

COMMERCIAL NEWS

FRANKTON SALE The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report:— Sheep: Fat wethers, 24s 6d to 27s 3d; unfinished, 20s 6d to 225; fat two-tooth ewes, 22s to 245; fat woolly lambs, 24s 6d. Cattle: Medium fat cows, £5 15s to £7 ss; light, £4 5s to £5 10s; heavy boner cows, £3 6s to £4; medium, £2 6s to £3 ss; lighter, 30s to £2 ss; potter bulls, 10s to 20s; vealers, £2 10s to £3 10s; small calves, 8s to 18s. Pigs: Choppers, £2 10s to £3 8s; prime heavy baconers, £4 to £4 6s. medium, £3 12s to £3 18s; light, £3 5s to £3 10s; heavy porkers, £2 16s to £3 3s; medium, £2 6s to £2 14s; light, 36s to £2 4s; unfinished, 28s to 345; store pigs, 18s to 265. slips, 8s to 15s; weaners, Is 6d to 6s 6d. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Company, Limited, report as follows:—Medium prime Hereford bullocks, £lO 15s to £l2 17s 6d; light prime P.A. bullocks, £8 15s to £lO 10s; heavy fat P.A cows, £8 10s to £9 7s 6d; heavy fat Jersey cows, £4 15s to £5 17s 6d; boner cows, £2 5s to £3 10s; runners, £2 10s to £3 ss; vealers, 15s to 27s 6d. Sheep: Light prime fat wethers, 26s to 27s 6d; medium fat wethers, 24s to 25s 6d. light fat wethers, 23s to 245; fat 2-tooth ewes to 24s 6d; woolly fat wethers, to 295. Pigs: prime baconers £4 4s to £4 ss; medium. £3 18s to £4 Is; lighter, £3 10s to £3 15s; porkers, heavy, £2 15s to £2 19s; medium porkers, £2 2s to £2 11s; lighter porkers, 35s to 38s; stores, 16s 6d to 22s 6d; weaners, 2s 6d to 5s 6d. Messrs Dalgety and Company Limited, report as under:— Medium wethers. 27s to 28s 3d; lighter, 22s 6d to 265; medium fat ewes, 10s to 11s; light fat lambs, 12s 6d' to 15s. Cattle: Medium heavy fat cows, £7 17s 6d to £8 17s; light fat heifers, £6 to £6 12s; medium boners, £3 Is to £3 10s; others, £2 to £3. Pigs. Prime heavy-weight baconers, £4 to £4 ss; heavy baconers, £3 14s to £4; medium baconers, £3 8s to £3 13s; light, £2 16s to £3 ss; heavy porkers. £2 10s to £2 17s; medium, £2 2s to £2 9s; light, £1 10s to £1 18s; good stores, £1 to £1 2s; slips, 10s to 12s; baconers, good, 5s to 6s. G. W. Vercoe and Company, Limited, quote as follows:—Heavy fat bullocks. £l3 to £l3 15s; medium weights, £l2 5s to £l2 15s; light, to £l2; heavy prime heifers, £lO to £lO 8s; prime medium weights, £9 to £9 12s 6d; light prime, to £3 lus; heivy prime cows, £9 10s to £lO ss; prime medium weights. £8 15s to £9 7s 6d; light prime, £3 to £8 12s 6d; light and unfinished, £7 to £7 10s; heavy fat Jersey cows, £5 to £5 10s; medium weights, £4 10s to £4 18s; heavy vealers, £4 to £5, medium weights, £2 15s to £3 10s; light, 30s to £3 10s; small calves, 15s to 255. Sheep: Heavy prime wethers and prime wethers, 29s to 31s 3d; prime medium weights, 27s 6d to 28s Cd; light prime. 25s to 275; unfinished, 22s 6d to 245. prime young ewes, 17s to\ 19s 3d; others, to 15s; heavy fat ewes. 13s to 14s 3d; medium weights, 11s to 12s 9d; light, 9s to 10s 6d; unfinished. 7s to 8s 6d. Pigs: Heavy prime baconers, £4 2s to £4 7s; heavy, £3 15s to £4; medium weights. £3 8s to £3 14s; light, £3 3s to £3 7s; heavy porkers, £2 17s to £3 2s; medium weights, 2 8s to £2 14s; light, £2 to £2 6s; small and unfinished, 30s to 38s; best stores, 20s to 245. good slips, 10s to 16s; others, 6s to 9s; weaners, 3s to 7s. Wright. Stephenson and Company Limited, report:—Prime heifers, £7 10s to £9 18s; prime cows, £6 10s to £8 ss; runners. £3 5s to £5; boner cows, £2 13s to £3 17s; 2Vs A.A. steers, £4 2s 6d to £5 10s; good B.P. run cows, £4 5s to £4 15s; Hereford cows, £4 2s 6d to £4 15s: mixed cows, to £4 ss; 11,2-yearl l , 2-year B.P. heifers, £2 11s to £3 18s; Jersey springing heifers, £8; ewes, to 9s; shorn hoggets, 18s to 21s; wethers, to 26s 6d. CAMBRIDGE QUOTATIONS The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company Limited report having held their Cambridge stock sale on Monday, when a small yarding of sheep sold at steady values. Several pens of boner cows came forward and met steady competition at values on a par with schedule rates. Only a small yarding of fat and store pigs was offered, and here again values for all classes remained on a par with recent sales. Quotations:— Sheep: Light prime wethers to 235; small shorn black face lambs to 8s 3d. Cattle: Heavy prime cows, £8 to £8 18s, second-quality cows, £4 10s to £5; heavy boner cows, £3 to £3 10s; medium, £2 to £2 15s; light, 20s to 355; potter bulls to 15s; medium-quality Jersey heifer calves to £3 3s. Pigs; Choppers, 29s to 30s; medium porkers, 32s to 395; light, 22s to 28s; large stores, 17s to 21s; medium, 12s to 14s; slips, 7s 6d to 10s; weaners, 2s to 6s. Messrs Dalgety & Company, Limited, report on their sale at Cambridge on Monday as follows:—There was a medium yarding of all classes of sheep and a similar yarding of cattle. A satisfactory clearance was obtained with prices on a par with recent rates. Sheep: Medium store lambs, £9 to £ll Sheep: Medium store lambs, 9s to 11s 4d; medium fat ewes, 10s 3d. Cattle: Light fat heifers. £6 to £7; medium fat cows, to £8; heavy boners, £4 to £4 4s; medium, £2 19s to £3 17s 6d: others. 14s to £2; Potter bulls, £1 7s to £1 15s. Pigs: Ther> was a large yarding of pigs, fat and store, which sold at late rates. Medium baconers. £3 12s 6d to £3 15s; light. £3 5s to £3 12s 6d: heavy porkers, £2 16s to £3: medium, £2 10s to £2 15s; light, £2 to £2 10s: good stores, 25s to 355; medium, 15s to 255: weaners, 3s to 6s; choppers, heavy, 38s to £2 2s; light, from 15/-. VALUES AT TE AWAMUTU Newton King Limited and Wright, Steohenson and Company, Limited, report that at their fortnightly sale held in the Te Awamutu yards on Monday an entry fully up to the advertised number of 1500 sheep and 100 head of cattle came forward and met with a very ready sale, firm va’ues ruling in all sections. Best fat wethers sold to 23s 6d; others, 19s 6d to 22s 3d: best fat ewes, to 12s; others. 10s to 11s 3d: F. and F. wethers sold to 21s sd; store 4-tooth wethers. 16s 2d to 20s 9d: top shorn W.F. -wethers, 14s 7d: others, 12s 6d to 13s 3d; smaller, 11s to 12s Id; culls. 8s to 9s 6d; four and five-year ewes sold to 16s 9d: S.M. ewes, 9s 3d to 11s; cull ewes. 7s to 9s 3d. The cattle yarding, which consisted of store cattle, sold as follows.—Meaty cows from £4 to £4 Rs; stores, £3 to £3 15s; culls. £2 to £2 17s 6d. WAIHOU REALISATIONS The Farmers Co-op. Auctioneering Companv report as follows on their fortnightly stock sale at Waib.ou:— Sheep: Prime hoggets. 21s to 235; fat lambs. 19s 6d to 23s 6d; forward condition lambs to 17s; good store lambs. 11s to 13s 3d: smaller store lambs to 9s 3d. Cattle: Light fat Jersey heifers. £4 10s to £5 ss: heavy 2nd quality cows, £5 to £5 15s; heavy boner cows. £3 10s to £4; medium boner cows, £2 to £3; light boner cows. 30s to 37s 6d; choice marked in-calf ‘ heifers. £9 7s 6d to £9 11s; Potter bulls, 1 10s to 15s. Pigs: Choppers to 30s; heavy baconers. 1 £3 18s to £4 ss; heavy- porkers and light £ baconers. £2 19s to £3 8s: medium pork- 1 ers. £2 3s to £2 14s: light porkers, 38s to £2 4s; unfinished porkers. 35s to 375; ' large stores, 24s to 325; slips. 8s to 10s fid; J weaners, 2s to 3s 6d. PIG VALUES AT TAUPIRI [ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile r Agency Company, Limited, report as fol- it