Late Commercial

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 777, 25 September 1929, Page 11

Late Commercial

BEEF MARKET STEADY K WESTFIELD STOCK SALE WESTFIELD, 2.30 P.M. An aggregate yarding of approximately 674 head of fat cattie at Westfield today met with a steady demand. The quality, generally, was good. Best ox made up to 44s a hundred; best young cow and neifer made to 41s a hundred. The offering was drawn from over a comparatively wide range, several choice quality lines of medium-weight cattle coming in on account of Waikato graziers. The smaller butchers T ook the biggest percentage of the offering. Top price of the day was secured tor a single bullock from a truck on account A. Rotliery, Te Kuiti, which went to T. Baster, Ponsonby, for £2l -a 6d. A iino of big-framed bullocks on acf oU ?\rv 0f a Waikato vendor made up 5 6d for a pen which went 10 Jones, Dominion Road. Une tbe choicest quality sizable ‘ Des t °* the day came forward on account W. Vosper, Cambridge. The 3 wa i s exceptionally well finished zt® ® ac ‘ e up of medium-framed steers wnich met with keen competition at UP to £lB 12s 6d. Thirteen medium to heavy prime j-eers on account B. Reed, Te Kaumade from £l6 15s to £l9 tJi the top-priced pen going to T. tester, Ponsonby. Twenty-seven handy-weight steers n acc ount Ring Bros., Hinuera, made trom £l4 10s to £l7 2s 6d. t ntiS ce Quality handy-weight steers pj—hng 17 on account W. McLaughlin, apatoetoe, made up to £l7 12s 6d. earn P 1 1116 c hoicest-quality lines of j n the cow and heifer section tr om Thompson and Ernest, nJit- tane * to meet with keen comat up to £l3 10s. The cattle Ti«r/n only me <*ium-framed but exceptionally well finished. on choice prime heifers mnnf count c - Sampson, Te Kauwhata, up to £n ss. b ep „ V v S were yarded in large numwa* the seneral level of prices u ttle different from that of last T he market for small calves tirr - a sl .ightly easier tendency at Thi especially toward the close, ana u highest price paid in the cow soction in recent years was heifT* tor an exceptionally big-framed on account Mardsdon, Wakelin, Tlle beef we nt to H. E. **affield, Otahuhu, for £2l 12s 6d. unHi Start was not made on the sheep comn ? earl >' 3 o’clock. The offering r ! se<i a ood percentage of welllormed wethers. SOUTHERN EXCHANGES ' TODAY’S SALES Press Association —English, Scottish and AusB ? Xlk ’ £S 6s 6d. Reported: New ChtSi insurance, 4Ss. &anir ' rJ hurch ’ Queensland National i’tSe-’/f? lls ew Zealand RefrlgerJon«L Y. l pald L (five parcels), 14s; Henry MaSir* op * 34s * Mount Lyell, 43s lOd; 3d - Reported: Henry d2LS?’ op - 34s 3d f ferr“J e ?. ,n -~Reported: P. and O. (deStock), 595.