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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

LIVE STOCK SALES,

d Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile ■ Agency Co., Ltd.,, report :-At tho tori- ' nightly Damievirko sale, hold on Friday, t thoro was a, medium yarding of sheep and . rattle. Prices lor sheep were Elightly „ easier than Jest 6ale, but bcof and forward . cattlo were eagerly sought after. . Wβ i quote :-Hcif«rs in calf, J34 7s. 6d. to £4 2t. i 6d.; Etore cows, £5 65.; weaner pirs, Itg i porkors, £1 9s. Messrs. W. and G. Tumbull and Co., Ltd., roport having hold their monthly sah In ■their Tauherenikau eale yards on Thure- . day. There was a good yarding of cattle, i but only one- pen of eheep came forward. Competition being Keen, there was procti- " colly a clearance at tho following rates — t Oa account of Mr. Harry Willis, South . Featheretott-Holstein cows in 'milk, £8 ss. to £10 55.; Holstein oows, springin" , , £11 3 15s. to £12 2s. 6d.; Holstein, heifers, £4 16s. - to £6 103.; yearling heifers, £2 7s. On a«3 count of other vendors—Storo cows, £3 6s. „ to £i 165.; forward cows, £4 18e.; fat and ; forward oows, £6 45.; yearling steers, £2 r 165.; Bpringi-ng heifers (on drop), £7 12s. - 6d. to £8 35.; two-year Holsteto bulle, £5 10s. to £6 11s. Messrs. W. and G. Tumbull and Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly sale in their Cartcrton sale yards, on Friday. Stock came forward as advertised, and practically the yarding changed hands at the following prices:—Hoggets, medium, 12s. Id., good 16e.; fat owes and wethers, 235. Bd.; fat hoggets, 205.; nigs, weaners ICe. 6d. r to 12s. 6d., olips 10s. 6d., lls., 12s. 9d., 155., [ to 17s. 6d.; store cows, £2 , £2 10s., £3 £3 10e.,.£3 165., to £4; fat cows, £6; cows and ' calves, £2 10s., £3 165., to £3,185.; dairy ■ cows, springing, £4 155., £5, £5 17s. 6d., £6 15e., to £8 2s. 6d.; springing heifers, £4 125., £4 17s. 6d., £5, £t, to £6 55.; two-year noif- , ers, £2 195.; 15-month heifers; £2 155.; yectT--1 ling heifore, £2 125.; steer calves, 31s. 6d., I 325. 6d.; two-year Holstein' bull, £5 155.. ) two-year Jersey bull, £3 7e.