LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2777, 23 May 1916, Page 9

LIVE STOCK SALES

, :, ~ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report having i ...held their usual weekly etcck sale at the Dannevirko sale yards on. Friday. A fair ; '' number of cattle; came forward, ■ but- the -v. yarding of sheep was small. Prices real-'-ised for - the day were quite up to recent - quotations, .'and were as follows:—Fat - fc-ewes, <235. 6d. to 255.; store ewes, 14s. 9d. I-'- hto l7s. 6d.;'forward store lambs; 12s. ti. ..to Ms; 6d.; small store lambs, 10s. 6d.; full- . linbutfi'.ewefcih lamb," 20s.','3d. j fat cows, £6 10s„ £3, £11 10s., to £12 10s.;' forward:bullocks, £12 10s.; eighteen-month steers. £3 7s. 6d. to £6; store heifere, £5 17s, 6d.; '. ' .weaners. 325: to £2 Bs.' ! Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and 00., i' Ltd., report having held a very successful ..' . gale,on Saturday,' when the'y sold in their i . Waipoua sale yards, on account of Messre. •Gadsby and Bartlett, the' whole of 1 their horses, drays, and sundries. The horses being known as good workers und being on . good condition, competition; was keen : throughout the sale, and the prices reai- . ieed were very satisfactry to the vendors. 1 ■ We also offered several horses on-account of other vendors,' which sold well. The following prices ivere realised i-r-Five-year-

old, mare, £40; six-year-old mares. £32 ss. to £35; five-year-old gelding, £40. nine-year-old mare, £45 10s.; nix, soven, eight, and nine-year-old geldings, £26, £32, £33 10s., £36, £38. On account other vendors:— Three-year gelding, £29; three-year Allies, £30 to £34 10s.; five-year geldings. £26 10s.