DISTRICT STOCK SALES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 838, 5 December 1929, Page 10

DISTRICT STOCK SALES

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS

Stock auctioneers report on sales held throughout the district during the past week as follow: — Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report:—During the week we held sales at Westfield, Pukekohe. Kumeu and Tuakau. pig sales at Pukekohe and Waiuku, and two clearing sales. There were full yardings at all centres, and there con-tingfc-s to be a good demand for all classes of cattle. Best dairy cows made £ls to a: 18; good cows. £l2 to £l4 15s; second grade. £S to £ll 15s; aged and inferior, £4 10s to £7 17s 6d; best springing heifers, £l2 to £ls 10s; good heifers, £0 to £ll 15s; small heifers, £ 6 10s to £ S 10s; empty young cows and heifers, £4 10s to £6 10s; store and hotter cows, £2 10s to £6 15s; cows with calves, £7 10s to £l2 15s; best, 15 to 1 S-months-old dairy heifers, £7 10s to £8 17s 6d: one pen of extra special realised £10; smaller heifers. £5 10s to £7 7s Gd: other heifers, £3 10s to £5 7s 6d; fal steers, £l2 to £ls 15s; heavy prime young fat cows and heifers, £S 10s to £ll 10s; lighter fat cows and heifers, £6 10s to £S 7s Gd: four-year-old steers, £9 10s to £lO ss; three to four-year-old steers. £S lCs to £9 10s; two to three-year-old steers, £7 10s to £8 10s; yearling to IS-month-old steers, £5 10s to £7 7s; heavy bulls. £S 10s to £l2 12s 6d; sound young herd bulls, £6 Gs to £l2 12s; other bulls, £3 10s to £6; heavy yardings of pigs at Pukekohe and Waiuku sold at fully Westfield quotations. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ltd., report:—Sales were held during the past week at Westfield, l’apakura and Waiuku (pigs). We report good sales with values firm for all classes of cattle and sheep. Best dairy cows and heifers close to profit made £ 2 to £ls 10s; others, £ S to £ll 10s; backward springers, £7 to £9 15s: Hired cows and inferior heifers. £4 to £6 1 Os; bulis, 4gns to logns, according to breed and quality; store and boner £4 5s t" £7 30s; yearling to 18-months heifers, best. £0 to £8 15s; others, £4 t<» £5 17s 6d: yearling to IS-tponths steers. £4 10s to £7 ss; 2 to 2i-year steers. £7 7s Gd to £8 15s; 3 to 3^-year suers, £9 to £lO 7s Gd: 4 to 41-year steers, £lO 10s to £ll 15s; grown steers iu forward condition. £ll 17s Gd to £l2 10s; beef and pigs at Westfield quotations; store wethers. £1 5s to £1 6s 6d.