Market Reports.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 308, 19 April 1907, Page 2

Market Reports.

OTAUPO STOCK. SALE. The New Zealand Liau an? Sf-r**uyie Avency Compy, Ltd., report:—Oa Tues’ay wa held our Ohaupo stock sale, and off* al 350 head of cattle, mostly grown fr-j-n Kawhia and up country. The prices offer d at the hammer wen cert duly 1-nw, bat owners appeared determined to sell at a lesson able figure. Well-bred 34 and 4-year-old forward bullocks realised frem £5 10s to £6 7s; 3-year-old fresh steers, £4 10s ; 2 and 2j-year steers, £3 3s to £3 10s; 15 and 18months steers, £2 to £2 6s 6d; yearling steers, £1 14s to £1 18«; fresh oonditianed 2-year-old heifers, £i 18a to £2 7s 6d; 18months to 2 year empty heifers, jgl 10s to £l 18; heifers in calf, £2 4s to £2 15s; dairy cows due to calve in spring, £4 lOe to £5 5s choice hoifor calves, £lss; mixed calves, 16a to 20s. OHAUPO SHEEP FAIR. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agen y Company Ltd., report:-On Tuesday at Ohaupo we held our third sheep fair of the season and yarded over 8000 sheep and lambs. There was n large attendance from all parts of Waikato, Kawhia, Te Kuiti and Raglan and we report a successful sale. The prices realised for really good lines of either sheep or lambs were quite equal to those of our March fair. Only two pens of fat ewes remained unsold at conclusion of sale. The 5000 ewes from Napier which we sold in conjunction with Messrs M‘Nicol and Co. were undoubtedly the best lot offered this season, and realised the following prioea: 1030 4 a nd 6-<ooth longwool ewe*, 18s 6*; 700 4 and 6-tooth ewes, 19a Id; 650 2-tooth ewes, I6s 6d; 1170 4-year-dd ewes, 17s Gd; 1200 full mouthed ewes, 15a 3d to 15s «d; fat and forwtrd lambs Ils 6d to 19a 9d; shorn lambs, 8s 6d to 9s 9d; fat anl forward 2-tooth wethers, 16s 8d to 17s 3d; small 2tooth wethare, 14s 6d to 15s sd; heavy fat ewes. 13s 6dto 16s; 2-tooth ewes, 16e 6d tc 17s; full-mouthed ewee, Ife te 14s 6d; aged e ves, 8s 6d to 10s 9d; 100 English Lm?teB’2 and 4 tooth rams f-om Yaoior. IJ guineas to 2} guineas; aged rams, 10s 6d to £1 Is.