DISTRICT STOCK SALES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 440, 23 August 1928, Page 12

DISTRICT STOCK SALES

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS Auctioneers report on stock sales field throughout the district during the week as follows: Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report:—During the week we held sates at Pukekohe, Westfield, Pokeno, Clevedon and Runciman, pig sales at Pukekohe and Waiuku, also two clearing sales. There is a further advance in the price of all store cattle, while dairy cows and heifers continue to meet with a ready sale. Best dairy cows at profit made £l2 to £l6: extra, to £2l; good cows, £9 to £ll 15s; others, £6 10s to £8 15s; aged and inferior, £3 to £5 15s; best springing heifers, £lO to £ls; average heifers, £7 to £9 15s; small and backward, £4 10s to £6 15s; empty young cows and heifers, £4 10s to £6 10s; store cows, £2 10s to £4 10s; heavy prime fat cows and heifers, £lO to £ls 7s 6’d, the latter price for a heifer sold at Clevedon on account of Mr. A. D. Bell and bought by Messrs. Hawthorn and Munro; lighter fat cows and heifers, £7 to £9 15s; fat steers, £lO 10s to £ls 15s; grown steers in forward condition, £8 15s to £9 18s; three to four-year-old steers, £7 to £8 12s 6d; two to three-year-old steers, £5 5s to £7; yearling to 18-month-old steers, £3 10s to £5; well-bred heifer calves, £4 to £5 12s 6d; other heifers, £2 10s to £3 17s 6d; calves, £2 to £3 3s; small calves, £1 5s to £1 17s; cows with calves, £6 10s to £9; heavy bulls, £7 to £9 ss; sound young herd bulls, £5 5s to £l3 13s; other bulls, £2 10s to £5; fat wethers, £1 19s to £2 3s 6d; store wethers, £1 8s to £1 15s; fat hoggets, £1 8s to 15s; fat ewes, £1 10s to £1 13s 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports: We held sales during the past week at Westfield and Waiuku (cattle and pigs), and one clearing sale. The dairy cow and heifer market shows an improvement, especially at Waiuku, where we had a large yarding and dairy cows and heifers were keenly competed for. This sale was probably the best held in that district for some time. The improved values obtained for beef last week at Westfield is being reflected in the sale of stores and boner cattle, and values for all classes have improved. We quote: Dairy cows and heifers, best, £lO to' £ls 10s; others, £6 to £9 15s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £3 10s to £5 15s; bulls, £3 10s to £ll 15s, according to weight and quality; . store and boner cows, £3 to £6 ss; yearling heifers, best, £3 15s to £5 10s; others, £2 to to £3 10s; yearling to 18-months steers, £3 10s to £4 10s; two to 25-year steers, £4 15s to £5 15s; three to 3\-year steers. £6 to £7 ss; four to 41-year steers, £7 10s to £8 ss; grown steers in forward condition, £8 10s to £9 15s. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Hamilton, report:—At Cambridge on Monday we held our usual stock sale. An average yarding of cattle met with competition fully maintaining late rates. Dairy cattle -were in demand and pigs showed a slight improvement on late sales. We quote: Fat cows, £9 5s to £l4; forward cows, £5 5s to £7; store cows, £3 to £4 15s; yearling heifers, £4 4s to £5 12s; Shorthorn yearling heifers, £3 12s 6d; best dairy heifers, £9 to £l2 10s; others, £6 5s to £8; dairy co'.rs, £6 10s to £9 and £l4. Pigs: Porkers, £2 2s to £2 12s; good stores, £1 7s to £1 13s; slips, 17s to £1 2s; weaners, 12s to 14s 6d; others, 6s to 10s; sows in pig, £2 5s to £2 15s; veal calves, up to 19s.

AUCTION NOTES J. R. Robertson, Ltd., will sell bv public auction at their rooms, Queen Street, opposite J.C.L., to-morrow, at 11 a.m., the second shipment of electi'ic-power radio sets. Mr. J. R. Robertson will conduct the sale. T. Mandeno Jackson will sell the following properties, under conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, at the request of the mortgagee, at their rooms, 9 Commerce Street, at 11 o’clock to-mor-row (Friday) morning, 71 acres at Papatoetoe, just off the Great South Road, together with house 7 rooms, cowshed and garage thereton; a two-storey house, of 8 rooms and usual conveniences, standingon section 30 by 100 ft, situated 60 Vincent Street, city, and a 5-roomed wooden bungalow standing on section having 70ft to Rangitoto Avenue, also frontage of 50ft, Ranui Road, Remuera. Full particulars were advertised in last Saturday’s Sun. Alfred Buckland and Sons. Ltd., will offer by public auction, at their “Haymarket” Sale Rooms, Albert Street, tomorrow,at 2.30 p.m., under conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, new bungalow of five rooms and section, situated at Northcote.

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