STOCK SALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 8

STOCK SALES.

Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, re* port:— ■ : - •

To-day at oar weekly Weat&M fat stock market w.e penned beef to the number of 301 head, comprising 187 s teens," 114 cows And', heifers, as against 244, at loet Wednesday's sale. The quality generally was first class. There was a.-steady demand throughout, -with little or no alteration in values from last report. Extra choice ox sold to £2 5/ per lOOJb; choice and prime ox, £2 1/ to £2 4/; ordinary arid plain ox, £1 17/ to £2"? prime young cow and heifer beef, £1 16/ to £1 19/; ordinary cow beef, £1 10/ to £1 15/; extra heavy prime steers ranged in price from £18 io/ to £19 17/6; heavy prime steere, £17 to £18 7/6; lighter prime eteere, £15 10/ to £16 17/6; light prime steere. £13 to £15 7/6; unfinished and email, £10 10/ to £12 17/6; heavyprime young cows and heifers, £10 10/ to £12 5/; lighter, £9 to £10 7/6; other cowe, £5 10/ to £8 17/6. The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—Beef wae penned in average numbers. The demand was again .steady, with ralues on a par with last week's sales. Extra choice ox sold to £2 5/ per lOOlb: ehoice and prime ox, £2 2/ to £2 4/; ordinary and plain ox, £18/ to £2 1/; prime yonng cow and heifer beef, £1 17/ to- £1 19/; ordinary cow beef, £1 13/ to £1 16/; heavy prime steers, £17 to £18 17/6; lighter prime steers, £15 15/ to £16 17/6; light prime steers, £13 10/ to £15 10/; unfinished and small, £9 to £12 15/; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £14 to £17 2/6; heavy prime young cowe and heifers, £12 to £13 17/6; lighter, £10 t* £11 17/6; light, £7 10/ to £9 10/; other cows, £5 10/ to £7 5/. One truck of eteeie from Mr. W. Boater averaged £17 10/; eight steers from Mr. B. D. Robertson, Otaua, averaged £17 10/; 32 steers from Mr. A. J. Finlayson, Dargaville, averaged £17 0/6; seven cows from Mr. W. White, Pperoa, averaged £13, selling as from £10 7/6 to £17 2/6, which latter cow was purchased by Mr. A. T. Naylor, butcher, New Lynn.