COMMERCIAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20088, 7 November 1939, Page 8

COMMERCIAL

OPOTIKI STOCK SALE CATTLE SLIGHTLY DOWN A heavy yarding of all classes of cattle came forward at the Opotiki stock sale. Sheep also came forward in average numbers and competition was keen at fully late rates. Fat cattle met with a steady demand at slightly lower values. Other classes of cattle sold at fully late rates. Quotations: —

Sheep.—Shorn heavy prime wethers, £1 is 3d; woolly fat hoggets, £1 4s Gd; fat ewes, woolly, light, 14s 9d; fail-ing-mouth ewes in wool with 100 per cent lambs, all counted, V2s 3d. Cattle. —Dairy heifers, £8 to £8 as: backward and inferior sorts, £4 10s to £5; fat cows, medium-weight, £(i 15s to £7 ss; light, £4 10s to £5 10s: unfinished sorts, £3 10s to £4: fat heifers, light. £5 to £6; three and four-year Hereford bullocks. £8 15s: two and three-year Polled Angus steers, £7; yearling Polled Angus steers, £3 7s Gd to £3 12s Cd; small, £2 10s to £2 15s; yearling Polled Angus heifers, £2; small. £1 10s; Polled Angus cows and calves, £3 10s; boner cows, £2 10s to £3 2s Gd; lighter sorts, £1 10s to £2: yearling Jersey heifers, £4 to. £5 15s; inferior sorts, £3 lo £3 10s; pedigree Jersey bulls, £ls 15s; grades, £7 to £9; boner bulls, £3 10s to £5.

HORSE FAIR

EASIER TENDENCY Yesterday’s Horse Fair conducted at the Matavvhcro yards, brought an entry totalling 140. There was a poor demand throughout, and all values showed an easier tendency. In the unbroken classes, light horses made £7 in one instance, otherwise to £4 15s. Medium weights made from £9 5s to £l2 in a lew instances, with the balance at from £5 to £7. Heavies went to £lO and £l7 in two instances, but generally this class made from £9 10s to £l3.

In the broken classes two good class hacks each brought £ls, but lew of the light horses reached double figures. A lew medium weights made £7, £9, to £l2. The best values in heavy broken were £3l, £24, £2l 10s, £lß,"and £l7 15s. these prices all showing a lessening demand for good farm types.

SYDNEY STOCK EXCHANGE

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, Nov. 4. Sales on the Sydney Stock Exchange to-day included: Commonwealth bonds. 4 per cent, 1944, £IOO 10s: 4 per cent, 19G1, £IOO 17s Gd ; Australian Gas “A,” £G 15s: Australian Consolidated Industries, £1 15s 9d; Broken Hill Proprietary, £3 10s 3d: Drug Houses of Australia, £1 5s 3d: Electrolytic Zinc, pref., £2 17s 9d.