COMMERCIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3617, 2 November 1920, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

PALMERSTON NORTH SALE. '• i Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltds, report: ’ At Palmerston North ‘on the 28th instant wo had a fair'yarding of sheep and cattle. There was no demand for sheep. Cattle.- —Springing dairy cows, £ls, £l7'tb'£3l; springing heifers, £l3 10s, £l(s, £2l to £2l 10s; store cows, £4, £6, £7 to £7 10s; empty heifers, £4 19s, £6 Is to £8 15s; Jersey bulls, to £l4. FEILDINGr CATTLE FAIR. ■At Fcilding Fair on the 29th instant wc.had a very fair yarding of young cattle, but owing to floods in the lower country no aged bullocks came forward. The younger cattle sold well. We quote as follows: 4-ycar bullocks, to £l4 10s; three-year Hereford steers, £11; yearling "P.A. steers.' to £7 .sk;’ yearling Shorthorn steers, £6 to £6 ss; twoyear steers, £6 13s to £8; two-year Jersey .steers, to £6 10s; two-year Hereford heifers, to £7 Is; pearling dairy heifers, £3 8s to £7 10s; yearling Jotsoy heifers, to £l3; two-year Jersey heifers, to £ls; fat cows and heifers, £lO 7s Gd to £l4. . ■ i ■ /' | LONDON MARKETS. '• I

Messrs, Dnlgcty and Company, Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from ...their London ’■office, under date of ?7th instant: ‘‘Tallow, 2000 casks offered. 300 casks sold at late rates to 2s lower." HLX TER VI i: LE CATTLE F Alii. Messrs, Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having held their Hunterville Cattle Fair on Thursday, Octobe 28. Owing to the flooded state of the country a number of the entries did not come forward, and the same factor militated against the attendance of the buying public. A fair clearance, however, was.effected, and the follow-- ! ing arc quotations; Yearling heifers, £4 is (id to £(5; two-year Steers, £0 2s (Id to £8 Ss 6d; two-year Shorthorn heifers, £lO ss; three-year heifers, small, £3 lls to £4 ss; two-year steers, inferior, £0 12s (id; ordinary two-year steers, £S 12s; three-year steers, £lO 15s to £l2: three and a half to fouryear bullocks, £l3 (is to £l4 16s; empty cows, £5 17s Gd to £7 Is; cows with, calves, £8 3s (id; forward cows, £0 2s 6d to £0 15s; fat cows, £l2 10s to £l4 2s; light fat buTloek's, £l7 17s; bulls, £5 5s (id to £.12 12s; 4-year Friesian bull. 35 guineas. T •VT."' —T"-,