FRANKTON STOCK SALE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 255, 18 January 1928, Page 12

FRANKTON STOCK SALE

BEEF PRICES ADVANCE POUND A HEAD BETTER (Special to THE SUN.) HAMILTON, To-day. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report: At our weekly stock sale in the Frankton yards yesterday we had a small entry of fat cattle. Prices improved one pound a head on those reached in the previous week. Very few fat sheep were penned without any improvement in values. There was a full yarding of store sheep, comprising, chiefly, lambs, and the -whole yarding changed hands under good competition on a par with the previous week’s rates. An extra heavy yarding of fat and store pigs came forward and sold at the usual late low rates. Beef.—Young and light, fat steers sold to £9 4s; choice, prime, medium-weight, fat heifers, £8 3s to £8 9s; mediumweight, fat cows and heifers, £7 to £7 12s 6d; lighter, £4 19s to £5 12s 6d; plain and unfinished cows, £3 16s to £3 19s; small and young vealers, 10s to £1 Is. Sheep.—Fat wethers, 265; 2-tooth store wethers, 19s; good shorn store wether lambs, 12s 6d; fair, woolly, mixed-sex lambs, 13s 2d; good, shorn, mixed, 12s to 12s 3d; medium, mixed-sex, shorn lambs, 10s 2d to 11s 4d; culls, 6s 2d to 9s; f.m. ewes, 16s; culls, 10s to 12s. Pigs.—Heavy baconers, £2 8s to £2 11s; light baconers, £2 3s to £2 6s; heavy porkers, £2 4s to £2 7s; light, 34s to 38s; slips, 22s to 265; best weaners, 14s to 17s; others, 6s to 7s. MINING NEWS KURANUI. —The manager reports for the week ended January 14: “The drive on the leader in the footwall of the main reef has been extended eight feet for the week, making a total of 112 feet from the crosscut. For the last two or three feet of driving the leader opened out to a foot and the quartz broken out shows a lot of blend and silica and should make values at any time. The crosscut from the surface has been ex- ' tended 11 feet for the week, making a total of 91 feet from the starting point. The country is still of the same description with no sign of any quartz showing yet.