STOCK SALES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 48, 20 September 1907, Page 3

STOCK SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report as follows:—-

On loth, Ilth, I2th and 13th September we held our annual spring horse fair at Cambridge, and during the four days offered 656 draught and light horses, and 130 odd draught and light colts. A large nnmber of buyers were present from Palmerston North, Feilding, Auckland, Te Kuiti, Kawhia, and the back country ; also two large buyers for the Indian market, and although the weather was anything but favourable, we report a successful sale. Draught stock on the whole were not at such high values as last year, unless showing plenty of bone, size, and quality, in consequence of Southern buyers not being anxious to purchase at Waikato values, and a consignment of heavy draughts arriving from the South proved that good horses were worth more in Waikato than in the South Island. Upstanding hacks, strong harness horses, and cobs were if anything higher than last spring, everything of this class eliciting keen competition, and in many cases realised more than owner's reserves. Heavy draught mares and geldings realised from £42 ios to £53 ; unbroken heavy draughts, £BB 5s to £45 ; active medium draughts, £26 to £35 ; medium draught nnbroken sorts, £lB to £29; strong harness colts, £lO to £ls 15s ; 2-year-old strong harness sorts, £7 15s to £l2 IOs; draught foals, £lO los to £l3 lOs ; upstanding hacks and hunters, £22 to £80; good buggy horses, £lB to £2O lOs ; useful harness sorts, £l6 to £23 lOs ; good cobs, £ls to £23s ; useful light hacks and buggy horses, £9 to £l2 lOs ; ponies, £3 lOs to £7; 20 strong harness sorts and medium draughts trom Gisborne, £l6 15s to £27.