STOCK SALE REPORTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 360, 15 March 1918, Page 2

STOCK SALE REPORTS.

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

On Tuesday, at Pukekohe, we had an exceptionally large yarding, more especially of calves. The quality was not up to that of previous sales. Late rates ruled. No grown steers yarded. Two to three-year steers, £9 to £l2 10s; yearling to 18months steers, £5 15s to £8 10s ; ditto heifers, £5 to £7 12s 6d ; weaner calves, good quality, £3 10s to £4 15s, others £2 to £3 7s 6d ; inferior calves, 10s upwards ; empty cows and heifers, £6 to £9 7s 6d ; bulls, £6 to £ls 10s ; beef at fully Westfield prices. At Tuakau, on Thursday, we held our second sheep fair, when scarcely the advertised numbers came forward. Competition was very keen, prices advancing for all sorts, 2s to 78 per head. Very few young sheep penned. F.fm. ewes, £1 to £l 9s Gd ; f.in. to broken ewes, Hs to 19s 6d ; inferior ewes, 7s to 13s ; best lambs, 13s 6j to 17s 6u, others 8s to 12s 9d, inferior ss, to 7s 6d ; Romney rams, 3gns to "gns, Lincoln 2Agns to 4gns.