COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 349, 1 April 1911, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

o— - The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report: At Pio Pio on Wednesday, 22nd inst., we submited 428 cattle, but only a small entry ot sheep. Cattle realised good prices, and only two bulla passed in, which no doubt would have sold if the accommodation had allowed drafting; 2 to 21 year steers made £4 2s (id, 3 year steers £■> 12s, IS month steers £2 17s 1.0 £2 19s, heifers £2 18s, calves £1 16s, fat cows £i 15s to £5 ss, store cows £2 10s, small lambs 'ls, f.m. ewes 5s 3d, wethers 9s Gd, Lincoln rams 2 guineas At Ohura, Friday 2, 4th inst: Some 4500 sheep and 187 cattle came forward; sheep rather dull of sale with exception of good wethers; cattle! made full market rates; 2 tooth weth- } ers 10s to lis 7d, fat 4 tooth wethers j 15s Gd, 2 tooth ewes 9s id to 9s 9d, I f.m. ewes 5s to Bs, shorn lambs 4s to j ss, f.m. rams 8s to 10s, 4 and 6 tooth j rams £1 12s (id to £2 13s, 21 year I steers £4 5s to £4 9s, 2 year steers | £3 16s, 21 year heifers been with buli j £4 to £4 ss, springers £6 to £0 2s Gd, j calves £1 14s Gd to £2. ! At Te Awamutu, Saturday, 23th, ; we yarded 440 cattle which were nearly all disposed of, only ons line of heifers failing to reach reserve prices; fat cows £5 4s to £5 12s, very forward cows £4 7s Gd to £4 17s, 3 year steers £3 12s, 21 year steers £4 10s, IS month to 2 year steers £3 6s to £3 12s 6d, IS month empty heifers £3 ss, yearling heifers £2 6s, empty cows £2 10s to £3 ss, calves £1 lis to £1 19s, heavy bulls £4 to £5, 2 tooth wethers 12s 9d, weaner pigs 2s 6d to 4s Gd. NEWTON KING'S WEEKLY REPORT. By Telegraph—Special Correspondent New Plymouth, April 1. On Friday, 24th inst., I held a clearing sale on the Carrington road, on account of Mr F. Schodrou. when there was a fair attendance of buyers. The dairy stock were mostly heifers in calf, and springing heifers, a few having calved, and satisfactory prices were realised. Weaners made 26s to 295, heifers in calf £3 5s to £4 2s, springing heifers £4 12s Gd to £5 7s Gd, springing cows £4 to £6, heifers calved £3 to £3 15s, bulls £2 to £3 12s 6d. lambs 9s; mower £S 10s, rake £4, jack £5 2s Gd, chain harrows £3 10s, dray £5; sundries sold well. At the Hay market on Saturday there was a fair yarding of pigs. Weaners made 4s to 6s, sows 15s to 18s 6d, small sows 10s Gd to 14s, porkers 255. At Eahotu on Tuesday there wag a good yarding, with a good attendance j of buyers. All classes were in good demand, practically everything being sold at the hammer. Weaners made 23a to 38s, yearlings to 15 month heifers £2 Gs Gd, store cows £3 to £3 17s Gd, forward cows £4 3s to £4 17s, fat cows £5 to £5 18s, bulls £2 5s to £4 12s Gd. At Waiwakeho on Thursday there was a full yarding. Weaners made 14s to 38s Gel, weaner Jersey heifers £3 ss, yearling to 15 month heifers £2 15s Gd to £2 19s, yearlings steei'3 £2 12s, 18 month steers £3 Is, store cows, £2 Is to £3 15s, forward cows £4 to £4 163, fat cows £5, heifers in calf £3 17s Gd to £4 2s, springing heifers £5 17s Gd to £7 7s Gd, springing cows up. to to £9 los, working bullocks £8 ss, bulls £3 10s to £5 10s, f.m. ewes Gs 3d, cull ewea 2s 5d to 3s 7d, lambs 7s 4d to 9s Id.