DISTRICT STOCK SALES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 694, 20 June 1929, Page 12

DISTRICT STOCK SALES

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORT Auctioneers report on stock sales held throughout the district during the past week as follow: Alfred Lackland and Sons, Ltd.—During the week we held sales at Westfield, Pukekohe (cattle and pigs), Turua, Waiotira, Clevedon, Pokeno, and Runciman, also five clearing sales. There were average yardings at all centres and a good inquiry for all classes of cattle. Dairy cattle continue to be in keen request. Best cows at clearing sales sold at £l6 to £22 10s; good cows, £l2 to £ls 10s; second grade, £8 10s to £ll 10s; others, £4 10s to £S ss; best springing heifers, £l4 to £l7; good heifers, £ll to £l3 15s; others, £6 10s to £lO 15s; empty young cows and heifers, £4 10s to £6; store and boner cows. £2 10s to £5 10s; cows with calves, £7 to £lO 10s; heavy prime fat cows and heifers, £S to £l2 15s; lighter cows tend heifers, £6 to £7 17s 6d; fat steers, £l<J 15s to £l3T2s Gd; grown steers in forward condition, £9 10s to £lO ss; three to four-year-old steers, £8 to £9 ss; two to three-year-old steers, £7 to £S; yearling to IS-months-old steers, £4 10s to £6 10s; well-lmed heifer calves, £4 10s to £5 15s; other heifer calves, £2 10s to £4 ss; mixed sex calves. £2 5s to £4; small calves, £1 15s to £2 4s; heavy bulls, £8 to £lO 10s: sound young herd bulls, £6 6s to £l2 12s; other hulls, £2 10s to £5 15s; fat and forward wethers, £1 11s 6d to £1 15s 6d; fat ewes, £1 Gs to £1 10s 6d; ewes in lamb, £1 6s to £1 15s 6d; lambs, 19s to £1 3s 9d. A full entry of pigs at Pukekohe sold at Westfield quotations. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.,—Sales were, held during the past week at Westfield, Warkworth, and Tuakau, and a registered pedigree Jersey sale at Papakura. All classes of caJtle sold at late quotations. We quote; Dairy cows and heifers, close to profit, best £l2 10s to £l6 10s, others £9 to £l2; backward springers, £7 to £lO 10s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £3 to £6 15s; bulls £4 4s to £ls 15s; store and boner cows, £3 5s to £6 ss; yearling to IS-months heifers, £3 to £6; yearling to 18-months steers, £3 5s to £5 ss; two to 2£-year steers, £5 10s to £6 15s; three to 31-year steers, £7 to £S 10s; four to 4i-year steers, £8 15s to £9 15s; grown steers in forward condition, £lO to £lO 17s Gd. The sale of registered pedigree Jersey cattle held at Papakura was quite a satisfactory one, practically all the cattle Offered changing hands. Cows sold at-40 guineas; incalf heifers, to 24 guineas; yearling heifers, to 15 guineas; jintl bulls, to 14 guineas.

NATIONAL HERD TESTING NEW GOVERNMENT SCHEME (From Our Oicn Correspondent) TE AROHA, Wednesday. A scheme for national ‘ control of herd-testing is suggested by the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, according to Mr. Dynes Fulton, president of the Herd-testing Federation of New Zealand, in the course of an address to a meeting of Ngarua settlers today. The Minister, stated Mr. Fulton, has decided to set up a committee to entourage, develop and control herd-test-ing for the whole of the Dominion. The committee would consist of four representatives of .the Government and four representatives of the Dominion Herd-testing Federation, who would be elected at a meeting to be held next week at Whangarei. The selected Government representatives were Dr. C. J. Reakes, Director-General of Agriculture, Professor Riddett., of the staff of the Massey Agricultural College; Mr. W. A. Irons, chairman of the Dairy Board, •and Mr. W. M. Singleton, director of the Dairying Division of the Department of Agriculture. This decision, said Mr. Fulton, could be taken as a further recognition on the part of the Government of the duty to further inspire the progress of a .movement destined to place New Zealand in the forefront of the world’s dairying countries. Mr. Fulton * added that the chairman of the proposed speciaLeommittee would be selected from the four representatives of the Dominion Herd-testing Federation. N.Z. DAIRY PRODUCE LONDON MARKET QUIET The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has received the following cablegram from its London house, dated June 19: New Zealand dairy produce: Butter,, choicest salted, 168 s to 170 s, market stagnant: cheese, salt 925, coloured 94s to 955, market quiet. MINING NEWS OCCIDENTAL UNA-The manager reports: “The stoping of the north and south end of the No. 2 reef is still progressing favourably. Colours and dabs of gold can be seen at both ends of the reef, which is looking well, carrying good blend, mineral and silica veins'. Crushing will be resumed on Wednesday next.