LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2877, 15 September 1916, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The Is T evr Zealand Loan 1 and Jforcantilc Agency Co. report:—Aft Himatanui, on Monday, we had a full yarding of both sheep and cattle. The bulk of the entry sola.at late rates. A large entry, donated to the Oroua Downs Red Cross Fund, also met with' keen competition. Wo quote:—Fair mixed hogget's, 20s. 7d. to 235. M. | good mixed-age owes, in lamb, 355. ud.; two-tooth' .wethers, 325.; forward wethers, 345. Id.; yearling heifers, £3, £5 is. 6d„ to £4; eighteen-month heifers. £4 Ms.; two and a half-year ompty .heifers, 10s.; fair .yearling steers, £4; good three-year' steers, £12 55.. to £14; aged store cows, £2 2s. 6d.. £2 15s„ £3 55.; fair store cows, .£4 10s., £5 10s.; forward cows, £7, £7 165., £7 196. 6d.; fat cows, £8 10s.. £3 165., £9 75.; good three-year springing heifers, £9 2s. 6d., £10, £10 125., £10 135.; two-year springing heifers, £5 ss„ £5 ins., £7, £7 12s. 6d.; guaranteed dairy cows, £8 10s., £12, ' £13 55.; pigs, slips, 165., 195,; good stores, 345.' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that -at tlioir monthly stock sdle, held at . Waikanae yards on Tuesday, they submitted a small entry of sheep and a fair yarding of cattle. Several pens of fat and forward wethers failed to reach -reserves, but the balance of their yarding changed hands at satisfactory prices. Competition for cattle was brisk. We quote:—Twotooth store'wethers (small), 295. 4d.; light fat cows. £7 lfl£. to £8 35.; store cows, £5 15s. to £6 Zs.; cows in calf to S.H. bull, £7 95.; three-year Jersey steers, £11; yearling steers, £5 75.; vcalers,. £2 !95.; dairy cows, £7 to £7 55.; springing heifers, £6 155.; weancr pigs, 13s. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., report having held . their weekly salo in their Waipoua. (Masterton) sale yards, on Wednesday, when they' offered a good, yarding of sheen and cattle. Competition was keen throughout the sale, and practically a clearance was. made at the following prices:—Fat ewes, 30s. ;• forward store owes, . 285.; two and- four-tooth .wethers, 31s. Id.; store ewes. 215.; b.f. lioggeis, 20s. 7d. to Us. 4<1.; w.f. hoggets. : 82s. to 225. 3d.; S.I), rams, 14s. 6d. Cattle: Fat cows, £13 65.; cows in calf, £9 to £10 to £11; cows and calves, £8 16s. to £9 10s.; springing heifers, £7 to £7 12s. 6d.; forward store heifers, £7 13s. 6d.