COMMERCIAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5051, 12 November 1926, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ co-operative Auctioneering Company reports:— At the weekly stock saje in the Frankton yards on Tuesday we had a small entry of beef and an average of fat sheep, which sold at advanced rates to those reached the previous week. The usual full number of fat and store pigs were penned, and prices for all classes were easier, fats realising e,qual to sVad per lb. Beef: Prime heavy bullocks, £l3 7.6d, light prime bullocks £ll 16s, liglit £8 19s; heavy fat cows £7 9s to £8 12s, unfinished £5 10s to £5 15s; vcalers £1 19s to £2 12s ; 3 and 4-year store steers £7 6s to £7 15s ; 3-year steers £6 11s to £7 3s; choice yearling Shorthorn steers £3 16s ; stofie cows £3 2s 6d to £3 15s; yearling Jersey-cross heifers £3'los to £3 12s 6d ; good 2-year-old Jersey herd bulls to £lO ; medium quality springing heifers £5 to £6 10s.

Sheep : Prime wethers in wool 34s 6d, prime woolly hoggets 30s 6d to 31s 6d, prime ewes in wool 34's 6d, prime heavy shorn ewes 26s '9d, plain and unfinished 17s 6d; best prime lambs 26s to 26s 6d, extra prime shorn hoggets 26s 6d.

Pigs : Heavy baconers £3 10s to £3 14s, liglit baconers. £3 4s to' £3 6s, heavy porkers £2 18s to £3 Is, light porkers £2 10s to £2 15s, slips 30s to 335, be,st weaners 24s to 28s, young and smaller 15s to 20s.