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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 603, 28 January 1921, Page 2

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LOAN AND mII The New Zealand LoaflM cantile Agency Co., .Ltd., fH We held sales of dairy tattle during the past vVestfield, Ngatea, Waiuku, WhitforcT and Kaukapakapa. There were good vardings, which sold at late quotations. Best dairy cows and heifers ; !15 to £25, others £9 to £l4 15s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £5 to £8 15s; emptv cows, £3 10s to £0 10s; Bulls, £3" to £lO 10s; calves £1 10s -to £2 10s; yearling steers, V2 15s to £3 10s; yearling heifers, £3 to £*4" ss; 18-months to 2-year 'leifers, £5 to £7 10s, ditto, steers, :4 to £7 15s; 2 1 / o to 3-year steers, £3 to £9 13s; steers, £lO to T3 6s; beef and pigs at fully Westleld prices.

At Westfield fat stock market on Wednesday beef was penned in large uimSors. Competition was dull, orices being easier. Wc quote:—• Choice oxen to £2 10s per 1001b: 'prime oxen, £2 4s to £2 9s per. 1001b; ctigh and inferior oxen, -£1 14s to '2 2s; heifer beef, £2 2s to £2 7s lar 1001b; cow beef, £1 15s to £2 2s ~>ei 1001b. Steers sold at from for bast £l7 to £.22 for a pen from Mi». H. E. Reed, Waerenga; medium, £l4 to £l6 17s Gel; others £9 10s to £l3 15s. ■ Cows and heifers sold at from 11 10s to £l2 7s Od; rough and in-feriorly-fatted cows, £5 to £7 7s 6d; Some of the averages were: 7 steers from Mr. H. E. Reed, Waerenga, - £2l Xi 9d; 32 do. from Mr. W. H. Fitiess, Rehia, £l6 7s 6d; 10 do. from Mr. N. K. Taylor, Taupiri, £IG 16s; 12 do. from Mr. John Massey, Mange re, £l6 Ss 6d; 15 do. from Mr. R. Uiquhart, Karaka, £ll 10s; 20 do. from Mr. Robert Clark, Waiau Pah, £l6; 16 do. from Mr. A. W. Hall, Papatoetoe, £l3 17s 6d; 8 do. from Mr. T. J. Murray, Pukekawa, £ls 18s la; S do. from Mrs. K. Bull, Puketutu Island,. £l4 10s; 5 do. from Mr. J. do. from Miv Chas. Haylock, Awamarino, £l4 17s Cd; 21 cows and heifers from Mr. R. and E. Finlayson,, Raupo. £8 10s 0d; 9 cows from Mr. J. S. Fitch, Karaka, £9 i)s Gd; 6 cows from Mr. J. J. Jeffries, Waerenga, £lO 17s 6d; 9 cows and heifers from Mr. Fred. Parker, Wai<iku, £8 12s 6d. Calves were penned in aver&ge numbers. Good vealers were yarded short of requirements, and sold at improved .prices, other calves selling at last week's rates. Runners (small yarding) made from £6 17s 6d to /*8?lljs; heavy vealers, £4 5s to £5 16s, medium £3 15s to £4, smaller £1 os to £2 10s; small and fresh-dropped, 4s to 15s. Pigs were penned in. smaller numbers than last week, showing no improvement in prices, store pigs being easier. Choppers". £6 to £6 15s; heavy baconers. £5 to £5 165,. medium £4 10s tot £4 18s, light £4 to £4 9s; heavy porkers £3 10s to £4 3s, light £2 18s; slips, SI to £1 10s; weaners, 10s to 18s.

DALGETY AND COMPANY. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report us follows on their fat stock sale at Westfield on Wednesday:—All classes of stock showed a decline,: any unfinished lines being particularly* hard of- sale.

Beef.—A big yarding, and prices showed a decline on last week's rates. Extra prime ox realised £2 9si >prime £2 8s to £2 os, ptheis '£2 to 355; cows, extra £2 3s, prime £2 to 30s, others 29s to 255. Oalves.'—Fair yarding. Prices were easier. Runners, £5 to £4; vealers, H" to 30s; fresh-dropped, 15s to 4s. ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS. Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd.. report as follows: , We held our fortnightly sale in the Pukekohe yords on Tuesday and had a full, yarding, all classes "being represented. Buyers were in attencfance, and a good demand existed practically everything changing owners. Beef, of which there were 223 sold, was easier in price. Other classes were slightly firmer. Dairy cows and heifers made from £8 10s to £24, according to quality; fat cows and heifers, £7 to £l3 10s; fat steers, £l2 10s to £l6 -7s 6d: empty young cows and heifers, £4 to £6; forward-conditioned 3 ] ,3 to 4V>-vear-old steers, £l2 10s to £l3 7s" 6d; same age steers, less condition, £ll to £l2 7s 6d; 3 to 4-year-old steer*. £!) to £11; 2*2 to 3-year-old 'steers, £7 10s to £9; 18-month to 2-year-old steers, £5 5s to £7 ss; yearling steers, £3 10s to £4 15s; yearling to 18-months-old heifers, £4 to £6 Bisgood calves, £2 10s to £3 2s; smaller Calves. £1 15s t.O £2 7*c- nfhav r.i!,,o t .

15s to £1 13s. On Wednesday at our weekly Westfield fat stock market we again had a heavy yarding of beef, a total of 00,.i coming forward, comprising 308 steeis and heifers, 190 cows and heifers and seven bulls. There was a ftcary demand throughout. Odd pens of ox beef sold at last week's tates, but generally values were easier. Cow. beef unchanged. Extra choice ox sold to £2 lis. choirs „^

prime, £2 7s to £2 10s, ordinary and plain £2 5s to £2 7s; rough beef, £1 ds to U 10s; cow and heifer beef, £1 Ms to £2 8s per 1001b; heavy prime *S™ ™j§-«l in price from £2O to ,n ,7 s . 6d » ''Shter prime £l6 tot £l9 10s light £l3 to £ls 10s. unfinished and small £8 to £l2 15s; heavy prime 1?-'% and heifers, £l2' 10s to (mo i i, , ; "Snter cows and heifers, Ti -*i?Ji i ?, thcl ' cows and heifers, •U to if); bulls} £6 10s to £ls. Fat and young calves were penned in less than average, numbers. Cood light vealers are wanted, !m d sold wellother classes were much iM last week. Runners made from UHH irt l_s 6d, medium £3 5s to *4 £2 to £3, small 15s to»£l 17 s '. V,X dropped, 3s to 12s (IQI soMV ' lM were yarded in average numblM S?,« T s t steady cfemand - Si values for baconers were on a Jvith last report, porkers showinl n .firmer tone. Choppers, £3 S S ? ( ♦ JVn hght *9 medium porkers H i to £3 10s, small fiTgs to £2! l<Ssf *iY * r S'gg. 11 tiffins