COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 518, 16 November 1912, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:— At Morrinsvilie en November atn we had an entry of 830 cattle and 400 fat sheep. Competition for fat stock was °ood, and late prices fully maintained. Store and dairy cattle were a little easier; still nearly everything was disposed of. Fat wethers shorn 17s 9d fat ewes, shorn 1.4s 6d to 3d, fat steers, small £9 15a, fat cows and heifers £5 15s to £8 6s. year ing steers £2 17s 6d to £3 10s, •yearling heifers £3 3s to £3 lis, fresh empty cows £4 5s to £4 15s, store cows £d 5s to £3 15s, two year empty heifers £4 Is to £4 15s, two year steers £4 15s, springing heifers £6 5s to £B, bulls 2gns to 9gns. At Cambridge on 11th inst., we had & yarding of 534 cattle and 58 pigs. ComDetition was brisk, and most of the yarding was sold under the hammer Fat cows £5 5s to £6 15s, fat heifers £6 to £7 2s, fat and forward steers, small to £6 17s 6d, three year steers £6, cows and calves £4 19s to £5 19s, yearling heifers £3 to £3 10s, yearling steers 19s to £3 ss, two year empty heifers £4 1.75, springing heifers ±b 17s 6d to £9 Gs, cows in milk £8 to £ll 10a> P^ 3 - weaners 17s t0 235, slips 28s to 40s.

CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALE. HIGHER PRICES. Christchurch, Thursday. The offerings a to-day's wool sale we -e below the average, but there was » record attendance of buyers, 2d competition was keen. Local mills operated freely, and Americana took a ?air proportion of medium and clean ;!i«bred« Following was the range of ° priced-Medium super. lOd to fld,"nferior 9*d to 9fd super.ha fhred Hid to 13Jd, medium 10Jd to iota inferior 9£d to 9fd, super crossl * in*dl to 12d, medium 9|d to lOd f ri J ß to 9d. longwool 9d to "?T sufer Corriedale 121* t 12|d " I * a ' i mid to 12id, crossbred d ? W ° B *9W 10|l halfbred 6Jd to SirwSe, 7d f tolod Jocks 5d to s*d, crutchings 5Jd to 7Jd Prices were generally ljd to 2d JZ than the first sale last year.