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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 716, 28 October 1914, Page 5

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report: —• OBAUFO SALE. We report having held their usual fortnightly sale in the above yards on the 20th inst., when they had an average of sheep and cattle. There was a fair attendance of buyers and they were successful it) disposing of practically all the lines offered.: Quotations —Prime fat wethers 235, fat and forward wethers 21s, woolly hoggets 17s, shorn hoggets 14s, 15 to 18 months steers £3 10a to £3*;l7s, yearling heifers £2 2s to £3 6s, mixed yearlings. £2 5i 6d, best yearling steers £3 8a to £3 10s. HAMILTON SALE. Weheld our usual sale in the Hamilton yards on the 22nd inst., and had an extra large yarding of sheep, csttle and pigs. There was a fair attendance of buyers and we have to report a successful sale. Beef was a shade easier in price owing to the freezing work.s being blocked. We had a line of *ll4 fresh-conditioned three year steers for which there was keen compel ition, the line averaging £7 Bssd Quotations —Prime fat pullocks, medium weights £l2, prime fat cows £8 10a to £9 7s 6d, medium weight cows £7 to £8 2a Gd, light cows an heifers £5 17s to £6 ss, fresh conditioned cows £4 10s to £5 17a, store cows £3 10a to £4 Is, three year steers fresh conditioned £6 163 to £B, three and a-hal£ year steers £8 15s, eighteen months to two year steers £4 3s to £4 15a, two and a-half year stears £5 103, yearling steers £3 4s to £3 10s, yearling heifers £3 4s to £3 103, small yearlings £2 103 to £2 15?, fat wethers, woolly 24s 3d, small shorn wethers 19s Id, shorn fat hoggets 18s 9d, cull hoggets 13s sd, store ewes 16s Gd, fat piga £2 10s to £2 15s, slips 20s to 28s, weaners 8s to 19s, weaner calve 3 3s to 18s. Newton King reports:— At Kohuratahi on 21st inst., for my opening gale since the winter, I had a good yarding, ail pens being well filled. The attendance also was very satisfactory, buyers being present in good numbers and most of the yarding was cleared either at the hammer or privately. A nice line of 107 bullocks 3 year old, in fresh o forward condition, was yarded by Mr W. A. McCutchan, being placed at £9 4s. These bullocks were a splendid advertisement for the Kohuratahi district Other prices obtained were —Good 15 months steers £3 10a to £3 la, yearlings £2 15s to £3 3a, yearling heifers 44s to 50s, store cows, only fair lines £3 10s to £4 3s, empty heifers, forward condition £5 7s, two year steers £4 21s to £5 7s, bulls £7, hoggets 15s 6d.