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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5057, 26 November 1926, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company reportsIn the Frankton yards on Tuesday last we had a full yarding of beef, and prices were easier. Light fat steers brought from £9 Kfe to £lO, sjm.aH and unfinished £7 5s to £9 Is ; prime heavy cows £9 4s ; fat cows £6 17s to £7 7s 6d, medium £5 10s to £6 6s ; light cows and heifers £4 5s to £5 7s 6d; rough cows £3 7s fid to £3. 15s; forward conditioned cows £3 19s to £4 ! 7s; 3-yfiar-old store steers £5 17s ; 2 to 3-year Polled Angus steers £5 10s; yearling heifers £2 2s .to £3. A fair entry of fat and store sheep was submitted, and values were up to the standard of previous Shorn fat weth'ers sold for 265, medium shorn fat ewes 15s 6d ,to 17s 6d, fat woolly hoggets 23s 3d, flat lambs 25s to 26s 3d, forward shormhaggets, 17s, Id, small to medium 2 and 4:-tooth store shorn wethers 17s. 6d to 18s 2d, culls; 14s 3d to 15s 4d. An extra heavy yarding of fat and store pigs was penned and sold at late rates, heavy baconers bringing from £3 15s to £4 3s, light jto mettium £3 5s to £3 12s 6d; heavy porkers £2 16si Is, light £2 7s to £2 12s ; slips 33s to 36s ; best weaners 25s to 30s, isjmall 14s to 18s.