COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 October 1911, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

LEVIN STOCK SALES

Messrs Abraham ai:d Williams conducted their u.snal weekly sale at their Levin ' stock yards. There- was a good attendance, and "Wellington butchers, win were present, bought a considerable quantity of stock. There was a marked advance in the price of sheep, and: a keen demand prevailed. A nice pen of ewes in lamb fetched 225. All the sheep wore sold, with tiie exception of one p"i. Cattle were hardly as good a.s List sale. Eight very bullocks made £9 15s each. Altogether there were twenty pens- of '.Vep and twenty-four pens of cattle. MESSRS ABRAHAM AND WTL- ' LIAMS, LIMITED .Report:—At onr we°klv en!e rt vin on Friday a good entry of both gheepand cattle met - good de-

1 mand, rery little going out. unsold. The demand for fat sheep and ewes ■and lambs being particularly keen. Quotations: Small linggols, 9s 9d: medium hoggets, 1 |.s to 13s 3d; good hoggets, 14s 3d; fat wethers, '19s nd to 21s Id: fat ewes, 17s 8d ; .•shorn fat owes, 12s 9d; store neiliors, 15s 3d ; mixed 2-tooth. I'is 2d; fat and fonvard wethers, 18s (!d: empty owes." l is (id to 12s: ewe-- and lambs, 225; fat bullocks, €9 15s Gd; fa I. cows, £5 l is, £0 Lis fid, £fi 5s to £'7 8s: yearling heifers, £2 Is, £2 12s (id to £3 |s, weauers, 18s fid; empty cows, £3 (o L' 3 Is springing heifers, Co 2s 'nl to £5 7s fid : 2-voar steers, £4 12s fid; 2-vear heifers, £3 10s; hulls, C I 12s fid.