COMMERCIAL NEWS
AYATAROA STOCK SALE. On Thursday last at the above yards the annual spring sale of store stock was lieltl, when Messrs AA . Jeffries and Co. submitted to competition 156 bead of cattle. A representative attendance was present, a great many watching the prices with anxious eyes'for tbe future of the beef market. Tfirre was a considerable falling off in the entry compared with former years, but the quality was exceptionally good. The sale opened ‘with much caution on the part of buyers and it was soon evident that prices were to fall in sympathy
with the Intel decline now prevalent in the Dominion. Vendors however, were not unreasonable, and a general clearing at the pi ices set below was the result, and must, ho considered satisfactory. No far Soull l cattle were yarded. These will he offered at a special sal,, to be I eld ,ui Mill November.
The following sales were n"< orded
Fni .1. AY. Thompson, two 2 year St,vis 1-5: to, T Watson. 2.1 year |,oil,-I at •65 •. tln ’ • 11 “'i' l * •' 1 P 7 15s ; tin E. A. Gil.li, leu I. and t. 21 yea, steel's at l> Ids. '-’ cows at L'l 12s nd ; tor Gilih Bros, thirteen I. and f. steers at 68 ; for .las. Green, fourteen I. and I. steers at 68 7s lid, six fat heifers at £7 : for Mulvaney Bros, two 2j year steers at 6t>, nine 18 month Steers at 61. seven ditto heifers at 63: for M. I’atrick one fat steer at £l3; for AY. H. Chinn, one springer at 68 2s (Id. five dry cows at 61 ; for a client, seventeen 2 year steers ami eight heifers at 66 2s bd. A lute of 23 f. and f. steers and heifers were passed at 67 2s lid, also a line of 32 good forward 3 ami -1 year lull.neks at The next sale liv this firm at thescards will he on the 18th Nov.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1921, Page 2
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