COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 88, 16 April 1915, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

SYDNEY WOOL SALES. United Press Association. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Sydney, April 16. Owing to the dearth in freight forthcoming, tire wool sales are restricted to twenty-thousand bales weekly.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Stratford Dranch, report as follows: On Tuesday, 6th April, we held our usual fortnightly sale in our Stratford yards. We had a small yarding of cattle and 935 sheep. Several lines advertised did not come forward-,• no doubt owing to the holidays. There was a good demand, more especially for sheep, and a fair clearance was effected at the following prices Fat cows £6 10s to £B,-.store cows £4: 11s to £5 3s, small and poor 61s to 70s, yearling steers (.nice line) 39s 6d, 2 year steers 73s 6d to 80s, weaner heifers 15s to 20s, mixed weaners up to 29s 6d, f.m. ewes (fair quality) from 16s to 17s 9d,- f.m. ewes (poor) from 8s to 10s 4d, while medium ewes realised from 14s 4d to 15s sd, lat and forward lambs 12s 6d to 13s 9d, rape iambs in good demand, small 7s up to 8s lOd, fair lines 9s 9d to Us 3d, Romney rams 3gns., Lincoln rams 20s. Our next Stratford sale will be held on 20th April, 1915. On Thursday, Bth April, we held a clearing sale on account , of Mr Alexander. Watt, who has sold his farm, at Turamanku, near.Tarata The attendance was very large, and all the. stock and sundries, 93 lots, were in good; order, and realised full to high pno?s under very keen competition lor most lines. Bedsteads from 20s to 30s, stretchers from os to 16s, chest drawers 335, wicker chairs from 13s to 16s y sewing machine 100 s, washstand 12s, Belgian chairs ss, cans 4s, fowls 2s to 2s 3d each, ducks Is 9d. The stock was keenly competed for as follows: Cull lambs 5s 6d, rape lambs 12s 6d, flock ewes with rams 20s 6d, rams Igu. to 1-lgns, goats 10s, pigs 30s, wethers IDs- 6d r heifers in calf £6, mixed weaners 20s, cows and, calves 675, 15 months heifers 565,. store cows 955, bullocks (2 year, old) £6; 6s:. On Tuesday, 13th April, we held our usual .monthly sale of wool, sheepskin's,- hides, etc. We luvd.l a fair catalogue of., 77 packages wool, and 425- sheepskins, etc. There was an average and , competition was keen, more especially ■ for sheepskins, which advanced considerably more especially for good lines. Pelts, inferior, 9d; sbort-woolled, 2s 4-d to 3s Id; medium, 3s 9d to 3s lOd; fair woolled skins from os 3d to 6s sd; good, wooUe.d 7s to 8s Id; lultywoolled from 10s lOd to 11s 6d; for a line from a Pohotyura . client. Land) skins, Is lOd. to 2s IQd,; butchers’ salted pelts, 3s ,6d to is; crossbred fleece, bidi bidi,.6id to Bid;. stained and seedy,, from,«9d , t0.,10d-; fair fleece -10Jd to ll,:ld ; liunbs, seedy, B|d to 9d ; fair staple Jambs, but -dingy, lOd to is; pieces, short and heavy, 4d to sd; fair- quality pieces s|d to.. 6Jd, med-ium,-pieces, but seedy, 5Jd to . 6Jd; crutchings from 7d to Bid; horse hair, mixed, Is C*d; liides, cow, liglit, no. butchers’, GJd to “(id, damaged, 6d to.oid ; inferior- 4|d ; yearlings, 7d to 7i(I; calfskins, from Del to lOd; inferior, 6id to 8d; tallow, in tins, inferior quality, a little dirty, 225,t0 22s 3d-. Our neyt sale will be held on 4th May, 1916, Since we last, reported, we have disposed of a very large quantity of stock, privately, with a very strong enquiry, more especially for young ewes and rape lambs. Mixed weaners up. to 285,, 18-mqpths steers 71s to 80s, for a line of 100 head on ac 7 count, of a Tarata, client ; 2 to 2\-year steei-s 92s 6d to 100 s; 2th wethers 18s to 19s, f.m, ewes, poor quality from 9s to 12s, fair quality from 14s to 16s 6cl, 4th ewes up to 20s 6d, lambs poor 7,s to 7s 9d, medium 10s 3d to lls, good lls 6d to 13s fid, fat mediuiu lambs; 12s, rams up to £4 4s.