COMMERCIAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4947, 5 March 1926, Page 1

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HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company reports:— At the weekly stock sale in the Frankton yards on Tuesday laist_. we had a moderate yarding cSji cows and heifer beef (no fat steers .being penned) of ordinary quality, dnd prices reached were not up to the standard of .the previous week. Medium weight, Well finished, £7 12s, to £7 15, lighter £& 3s to £6 ss; plain and ordinary cow £3 15s to £4 7s 6d» unfinished £3 to £4 ; best vealei’s £2 6s to £2 10Si light £1 to 355. A ’full number of sheep were again penned, and all'cleared at the following rates: Fat' ewes 18s, fat w.f. woolly lambs 21s to 225, forward.w.f. shorn lambs 15s, black faces in same ’ condition 15s 6d, > small 2-tooth wethers 15st medium 2 and 4-tooth wethers 2(te'6d, small 2-tooth ew'es 20s to. 21s 6d, smajl framed 4 and '5-year-old breeding eWes 16s, medium 5-yearrold ewes 12s 9d, low-conditioned sound mouth ewes 9s to 9b- 6d, culls 5s to 7s 6d. . A la ; rge number of fat and store pigs were submitted, and prices' in the fat pens, were all-round lower .than those reported the previous week, while all classes of stores Were dull of siale." Heavy good quality bacon pigs £4 12s, to £4 17s, heavy baconers £3 18s to £4 10s, medium baconers £3 8s to £3 15b, good porkers and. Hight baconers £2 15s to £3 4s, medium porkers £2 7s to £2 12s, stores, 32s to 355, slips, and small porkers 17s to 245, weavers 3s. 6d to Ils.