DISTRICT STOCK SALES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 11

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.: Luring the week we held cattle sales at Westfield, Pukekohe, Tiirua, Pokeno, Ivumeu, Kunciman and Jielensville, pig sales at Pukekohe and Waiuku, and a clearing sale on account of Mr. V. Collins, Mercer. Average yardings cam© forward and found ready buyers at recent improved values. Best dairy cows made £ls to £ls; good cows. £ll to £l4 15s; other dairy cows, £5 to £lO 15sbest springing heifers, £lO 10s to £ls; other springing heifers. £5 5s to £10; empty young cows and heifers, £3 10s to £5 10s: store and boner cows, £2 to £5 15s;' fat cows and heifers, £ 6 to £l3 15s; fat steers. £ll to £l4 15s; cows with calves, £7 to £9 15s; three to four-year-oLd steers, £8 15s to £9 17s 6d; two to three-year-old steers, £7 5s to £8 12s Gd; yearling to two-year-old steers, £4 10s to £7; best yearling dairy heifers, £5 10s to £7 ss; other yearling heifers, £3 to £5 ss; sound young herd bulls, £5 to £lO 10s; heavy bulls, £4 to £5 10s; other bulls, £1 10s to £3 17s Gd; Pigs at Pukekohe and Waiuku realised values. Mr. Collins’s 39 Shorthorn dairy cows sold up to £l7 10s and averaged £3 2 9s; the Shorthorn bull mad© 27gns. The .New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited.—Sales were held during the past week at W estfield, Clcvedon, Pqpakura, Paeroa. Xgatea, Whitford and Waiuku (pigs). Wo also held at Kaipara Flats"the second annual female sale on account of the Rodney Jersey Breeders’ Club. W'e report good sales with values for all classes of cattle, sheep and pigs on a par with last report. quote: Extra choice dairy heifers sold to £lB ss; best dairy cows and heifers. £ll to £l6 10s; other dairy cows and heifers £6 10s to £lO 10s; aged cows and inferior heifers, £ 3 to £6 ss; boner bulls, £2 10s to £6 ss; herd bulls, £5 to £lO 10s; boner cows, £2 15s to £5 10s; store cows and heifers, £3 15s to £6 7s 6d; yearling heifers, £ 2 to £4 15s; 18 months to two-year heifers, £5 to £6 17s 6d; yearling to 18-months steers, £ 4 to £6 Gsj. 2 to 24-year steers. £6 7s Gd to £7 10s; 3 to 3j-year steers, £7 15s to £9 ss: gro.wn steers, in forward condition. £9 ids to £lO 10s. Sheep, pigs and beef sold at full Westfield quotations.