LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 265, 5 August 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hawera branch, report as follows:-At Kakaramea, oil July 28, v/c hail an extra heavy yarding of cattlo and sheep, and report a total clearance under the hammer at advanced prices. .Most of the stock offered was on of Messrs. Samuel Bialie and 'Sons,* and thero was a largo attendance of buyers from all parts, and bidding iras most spirited throughout. We rfeport as follows:—Pat cows, £11 14s. to £12 65.: for-

ward cows, £8 Bs. to £10 45.; store cows, £7 10s. to £7 145.; two and a half-year steersj £10 6a.; twonty-month steors. £7 Bs. 6d. to. £7 155.; .twenty-month empty heifers, £7 to £7 5d.; weanor steerß, £1 6s. to £3 19s. fid.; weaner heifers, £1 16s. to £2 125.; fat and forward four auff etatooth, wethers, £1 15s. 9d.; two-tooth ewes in lamb, £1' 16s. 4d. to £2 os. 9d.; mixed- ' sex hoggets, £1 Is. 6d. to £1 10s.; small (hoggets, 10s. Id. to 14s. Id.; forward empty owes, £1 ss. 2d. to £l 'Bs. 4(1.; ram hoggets, 285.; four-tooth ltomney rams, ,365.; cull owes, 6s. fid.; good three-quarter draughts. £23 to £44; aged sorts, £10 10s. to £19; uubroken draughts, £16 to £33; good hacks, £13 to S3SI 65.; aged sorts, £4; Implements and sundries sold exceptionally well. In dairy pens, dairy cows close to profit made £10 to £14 10a-,- springing heifers, £13 10b. to £1B; backward sorts, £7 to £9 10s. At itanaia, on July 29, wo had a small yarding, and .business was transacted at tho following rates:—Storo cows, £5 19s. to £7 65.; empty heil'ers, £3 9s. to £7; mixed-sex weannrs 6s. to £2. 10s. 6d.; ditto Bmall, 175.; hogget*, 18s. 3d. to 245.; fencing-posts, 2s. At Palmer ltoad, on Friday, wo had a. small yarding, owing to rough weather, and report a total clearance at tho following prices:—Forward cows, £8 2b. to £8 95.; store cowb, £5 os. to £7 35.; empty twentyjononth heifers, £6 18s. to £? 35.; weaner heifers, £3 Is. to £3 Bs.; mixed weaners, £2 lis.; springing heifers, £11 10a. to £16; second calvers £10 10s. At Waverley, on Friday, we had a small yarding, which changed hands at the following prices:—Store cows, £6 to £7 lis.; hoggetß, 245. Id.; small hoggets, 14s. 9d. to 19d.-, f.m. ewes in iamo, poor condition, 16s.