Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43099, 1 June 1907, Page 2

Commercial.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and sons report.— Horses : Last Friday being a holiday w« held no sale.

On Tuesday we held a dearanoe sale at Mr D. Kidd’s, Otahu.hH, There was a large attendance «f buyers. Dairy cows sold at from £2 2s 6d to £4 15s ; bulls, £2 J.s to £2 6s; calves 15s to 23s ; working horses, £lB to £26 10s; hacks, £4 7s Gd to £l4; 18 months filly by Wilmington, £l2 10s; two light two-year-old fillies, £9 each. The Pukekohe Yards on Monday were well filled, all classes of stock being represented, and, with few exceptions, everything changed hands at full values. Dairy cows, near oalvlng, £6 7s 6d to £7 17s 6d for best, others £4 to £5 10s ; backward cows and heifers, £3 to £4 10s ; empty cows, £1 15s to £2 15s; three to four-year-old steers, £5 2s 6d to £5 14s; two to three-year-olds, £3 to £4 12s 6d; yearlings to 18 months, £1 13s to £2 15s; calves, 18s to £1 4s ; smaller, 10s to 16s. Seventy-nine beef met a steady sale at Remuera rates. At the special sale of Mr A. S. Thorbum’s dairy cows there was a large attendance and satisfactory prices ruled. Fresh calve 1-cows made from £5 to £8 2s 6d ; those milking some time, £3 to £4 10b.

Stock .of all classes were welt represented at Remuera on Thursday and sold freely, throughout, cows near their profit selling to £7 10s,' diy to* $$ IQs, "Fat and young calves, in ffill supply, brought from £2 to £3 2s; 113 sold. There was a full yarding of fat cattle whioh sold well at late values, ox beef selling to 225, cow to 18s per 1001 b, 349 sold. 1,87 Bheep were yarded and sold freely throughout, best wethers selling to 20s lighter weights to- 21a; heavy ewes to 21s 6d others to 18s ; best hoggets to 17s 6d, sma’ler t > 14s. Pigs in average numbers. Small were from 5s to 10s, porkers to 30s, baconers to 40s ; 141 sold.

Hides, skins, tallow, etc.: Hides —Ox, sfd to 7{|-d; cow, 5d to sfd; calf, 6d to 6jd; horse 12s to 14s ; damaged hides, 3d to 5d ; horsehair, Is 3d ; tallow, 25s to 265; bones, £4 15s to £5. Skins —best butchers’, 4s 8d to £5 ; medium, 3s 5d to 4s 3d ; small and damaged, Is 5d to 3s Id,