COMMERCIAL ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1929, Page 3

COMMERCIAL ITEMS

• \ SYDNEY WO'OL SALES. SYDNEY, Sept; I<£§ At to-day’s wool sales, 10.460 bale's were sold. There was sustained comptetiUon, with better support frjfii Germany and Bradford. Values were unchanged. Faulty lines were, still difficult to sell. Greasy merino made, nineteen pence per lb. TOTAItA FLAT SALE YARDS’. Messrs McMahon and Lee report having held a sale of dairy cows and heifers at the above yards on the 6feh. inst. This sale was probably one of the largest sales of dairy stock ever held on the West Coast and attracted* a very large attendance of dairy. farmers from all parts of the West CoatfS The stock reached the yards iii. verf good condition and anything of quhp-/' ity, breeding and close to profit elicited very keen competition. A complete clearance was effected of all the stocll yarded except a line of 24 Holstein cows which failed to bring the w reserve, and this class of cows do rfox appear to be in favour with West Coast farmers. ri .H The following are the range of sales: ■ §ix Jersey cows, 2nd. and 3rd. covers at £l3 ss; 4 Holstein cows .at £l2 12s 6d; 1 Holstein cow at' J&T2- lCfe^ 1 Holstein cow at £ll ss, 1 at £lO ids',. 10 at £9' 15s, 5 at- £9 10s~; 16 Shorthorn cows, at £9 128 fid; 5 Jersey heifers 8$ £8 15s, 4 at £8 10s; 12? Holstein heifers at £8 10s; 1 Shorthorn cow at £8 16s; 2 empty Jersey heifers at io 158; 1 Jersey cow and calf at £9 15s/ 2 Shorthorn cows and calves at £7; I polled . Angus yearling bull £5 15s; 1 two-year-old Holstein Bull £lo’ IQs ; v 8 two-year-old Shbrthorn steers £7‘l7s ; ; 1 two-year-old polled steer ,£fi 155,; 23 yearling heifers £4 18s 6d; T steer £3 ilsj-3-yr. heifer £3.