SHEARERS' RATES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2890, 30 September 1916, Page 4

SHEARERS' RATES

It was reported recently that the secretary of the A.P.TJ. had stated that many of the sheepowners recognised the shearers' demand for payment at the rate of 255. per 100 as fair, and wore already engaging workers at that rate. i A Dominion representative was informed yesterday that it is quite incorrect to say that the 255. will he given by many. A few farmers in the Wairarapa .have given it, but the majority there and in 'Hawke's Bay are determined to pay tho £1 per 100 rate and the 2s. 6d. war bonus. A meeting attended by fifty Wairarapa sheepfarm'ers unanimouslv" decided to keep to those terms, and a gentleman who has just returned from a tour of tho East Coast, says that the same determination prevails in Hawke's Bay. The Maoris, he adds, will not stick out for the 255. ..Folks are buying motor-cars and life insurance by mail—why don't you buy your grass seeds the same way ? Government tests of purity and fertility aro given with all our samples, which takes away the element of chance so long associated with seeds. • Write us. Dept. D, to-day for samples and prices, and the tests will bo given you as well. B[odder and Tolley, Ltd., Palmerston North —Advt. ■ Up-to-date' cheese-' factory managers are mm placing orders -for the famous Victor Vats. These rats,- with. ; their, middle drainage and sloping bottom, are novel and most efficient. Orders oan only be executed- in rotation owing to shortage of materials—place your order straightway and be, sure of delivery. A. J: ' Parton,, Sheet -Metal and Plumbing Works; Carterton.—Advt.. LIVE STOCK SALES . Messrs., Dalgety and Company, -Limited, report having . e very good, yarding of both, sheep and cattle at their Taihape sale on Wednesday, when all sheep yarded sold readily under the h funnier. Sovcral pens of' c&trtlo were pa&sed, but all lines were quitted lator on in the day. Quotations Small ewe hogget's. 235. lid.; wether hoggets, 255., 3d., 255. 4d.; good ewe hoggets, 29a. Bd.; aged ewes, with Bma.ll per-, centage of lambs, 28s. ;■ mixed aged, ewes, with fair percentage of 'lamj)s, 365. lOd. to 40s. fid. Cattle: Good coloured steers, yearlings, £6 195., £7 to £7 25.; 20-month to. 2-year-old steers, £8 .15s. to £9. Is.dairy heifers. £7 12s:'to.>£8; dairy cows,-. £7- 10b.to £8 55.; light fat heifers, £10 10s.; light fat bullocks, £16; good forward bullocks, to £14 155.; 3 and 3i-ycar-old steerß, £12 10s. to .£l2 15s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report as follows:—On'Wednesday wo held, at "Cluoy Park," Palmerston North, a record sole. The sheep and cows wore in splendid condition, and sold well. Every Uno offered met with ready competition from a large attendance of the public. Wo quote :Slieop: Fat wethers, 37a; fit forward hoggots, 253.. 25b. lid. to 275.; mixed boggetß, 225.; ewes in lamb. 255. 6d., 31s. 9d„ 31s. 10d„ 355. -6d. to £2 2s. Dairy stock: Best cows, from £10 to £17 155., the average of 25 head being £10 os. 6d.; springing heifers, "£5 10s. io £7 129. 6d., averaging for 20 head £6 each; Jersoy bull. £3; 20 guaranteed empty forward cows, at £7 17s. 6d. ■ , ■ Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Palmexston NorUi sale as follows:—Wo had a, good yarding of both sheep arid cattle on Thursday, and have to feport a total clearance dt following prices :—Sheep: Fat wethers, 38s. to £2-Is.; fonwarii wethers,' 345. fid.; fat ewes. 325. Id.; hoggets, 18s., 22a.; owes and lambs. 295. Cattlo: Springing cows, £9 to £12; cows in milk, £8 155.; springing heifers. £5 Ib. to £6 6s. 6d.: store cows, £7 ,18s. to £8; fat and forward oows, £8 55.; empty heifers. £6 Is.; yearling and 18-month steers and heifers, £3 4s. to £4 Is. Tho New Zoa.la.nd Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—On Tuesday, in conjunction with Messrs. Levin.. and Co., Ltd., wo held a, most successful eb-Io of dairy' stock on' account of Mr. A. B. Buchanan-, of Glon Oroua. There was a

large attendance of buyors, and good prices wero obtained. Tho Jicrd of 76 cows (including Beveral heifers and three-quarter cows) averaged £13_ 10a. 6d., tho range of priccs beingßestTcows, £15 to £22; fair cows,. £10 to £14; backward, and three-quarter-cows, £7 to £9 10s.; empty cows, £8 10s.; yearling heifers, £6 10s.; bulla. 10, guineas to 11, guineas. Horses: aged horses, £4 to £10. Sheep, fat hoggets, 275. Pigs, stores, 395.;- sows in pig, £6 ss. to £7; empty sows. £2.