COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1924, Page 3

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

ARAHURA FAT STOCK SALE. At yesterday's Arahura fat stock sale the yarding comprised 87 head of fat cattle offered on account of various vendors, the quality of which was equal to previous sales. Beef held its price compared with the previous fixture, the piimcst and medium weights making from Us to 15s per hundred, lighter soils from 10s to J2s Gd per hundred. Heifer and cow beef sold well and showed no depreciation on prices received at the last two sales. Messrs AY. Jeffries and Co., sold a.s follows:—On account Air W. Chinn Jur., 2 vealers at £2 5s each. On account Air E. Gibb, I blks. at Cl t, -I at 112 ss, 2 at £l2 2s Gd. 3 at £l3 7s (id. 2 at £l2 2s Gd, 2 at £l3, 1 heifer at 18 17s Gd, 1 at £9, 1 at 111 7s Gd. (in account All' J. AL Gibb, 2 blks. at 113 17s Gd, 5 at £l3, 3 at £l2 2s Gd, 1 at til 2s GJ. Oil account Air J. Condon. 2 blks. at £ls 17s fid. 2 at £l3 15s, 5 at Cl 3, l heifer at £l2 17s Gd, 1 at Cll 7s 0:1. 2 at. £l2 7s Gd, 2 aL £lO 12s Gd, L at 019, 2 cows at Cll 10s, 2 at £9. 1 at £lO 10s, 2 at £l9. 2 at £lO 2.s Oil, 2 at £9 10s. 1 at £9. 2 at £6 2s OL On account Mr E. Corby, 5 store steers at £0 15s. On account Alt S. Knowles. 1 hlk. at £lO. On account Wells Bios.. 1 steer at £0 10s. On account of a client 3 hilts, at £ll 10s, l stag at £B.

.Messrs AL Houston and Co report a.s follows:—Our entry at the above sale yesterday comprised 10 head of fat cattle and 11 fat sheep. There was a huge attendance of buyers and competition wits keen throughout, prices recorded being somewhat on a par with those of the previous sale. lop prices for the sale and for the year was secured by Air Win Dicdrichs of Kokatahi for an extra prime shorthorn Imllock fattened on his Kokatahi Station, w hich realized £22 2s Gd and was purchased liv Ziegler and Co. 'I here was only a small pen of tat sheep vurded and they sold well.

The following were the sales:—On account of Al. Nolan II lat sheep woolly) at 19s Gil ; oil account of Win Dicdrichs 2 bullocks at L’l3 os, two at C 1.3 7s (id, two at £l3, one at C 22 2s Gd, two at L'lo 15s, two at £lO 12s Gd, one al C 9 15s, one at £lB 15s, two at £l7, one stag at £7 17s Gd, one steer at CIO ss; on aeeomiL of A. O. Scott ( Karangarua) one bullock at Clo Ins, one heifer at CI3 17s Gd, one cow at L'tO 17s (id, one at Co, one heifer at Cll os, two at CI2, two cows at Cll ss, two heifers at C 9 17s Gd, one bullock at CIO 17s lid, one heifer and 2 cows at C 9 7s (id; on account of AL Nolan, two bullocks at CB, one heifer ;,t L'7 17s (id, one at Co 10s, one bullock at Cll. voider at Co 2s Gd, one aged cow at Cl, one stag at CG 19s.