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Commercial.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons report.— Horses : At the Hay market on Friday last we had a good demand for all classes. Aged draughts sold at from £26 to £34; aged medium draughts, £l6 to £3O ; lighter sorts, £8 10s to £ls 5s ; buggy horses, £l4 to £26 ; ordinary hacks and ponies, £4 to £7 10s ; Raleigh cart, £l9 ; sulky, £7. During the week we sold privately medium stallions from £4O to £63.•

At Bombay on Saturday we held a clearance sale of Mr R. TY. Mears’ live and dead stock, There was a large attendance and everything sold well up to expectations. The dairy cows made from £5 2s 6d t"> £lO for best; others, £3 10s to £5 ; calves, 10s to £1 7s ; spring carts, £2 10a and £9 ; plough, £5 2s 6d; disc, £3 ss; fencing posts, £4 7s 6d to £5 per hundred ; fowls, Is 8d to 2s 2d each ; Ismail pigs, 12s to £1 ; potatoes, 6s bag. On Tuesday, at Patumahoe, we sold, on account of Mr W. J. Hollywood, his dairy cows, horses, etc. The cows were a veiy nice lot and competition was keen. Those milking and near calving brought from £6 17s 6d to £9 58 ; others, a bit aged, £4 5s to £6: empty, £1 155.t0 £3; yearling heifers, £1 17s 6d to £2 10s ; calves, to £1 10s ; black gelding, aged, £lB 10s • bay filly, 3yrs, £27 10s. We also sold Mr J. J. Uoey's dairy cows, which made from £4 5s to £B.

J For this time of the year we had a large I muster of stock at Helensville on Wednesday. I All classes sold at slightly better values. Springing heifers, £3 5s to £5 10s ; empty cows, £2 to £3 2s 6d; small fat steers, £6 5s ; fat cows and heifers, £3 17s to £5 7s : I forward-conditioned three-year steers, £5 8s to £5 11s ; two to three-year steers, £3 9a to £4 2s ; yearlings to 18-months, £1 11s to £2 13s ; calves, £1 2s ; fat wethers,£l 3s. At Remuera on Thursday dairy cows came forward in larger numbers than of late and were dull of sale. Those near their profit sold from £4 to £8 5s : dry, 30s to £2 10s. Fat and young calves, in full supply, sold freely from 3s to 465, according to weight and quality ; 122 sold. There was a full supply of fat cattle of choice quality, which sold freely throughout at recent quotations. Steers ranged in price from £6 2s 6d to £ll 128 6d ; cows (very few penned), £4 to £7 17s 6d ; 415 sold. The sheep pens were well filled with a good class ef mutton, which sold steadily throughout at late values, best wethers selling from 26s to 30s, lighter weights 21s to 255, weighty ewes to 23s 6d, others 15s 6d to 20s, hoggets 14s 6d to 19s; 1,450 sold. Pigß, in bettor supply than of late, brought high values right through. Small, from 9s to 15s ; slips to 18s ; porkers, to 43s ; no heavy penned ; 100 yarded. Hens, 2s each.

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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43216, 17 August 1907, Page 3

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Commercial. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43216, 17 August 1907, Page 3

Commercial. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43216, 17 August 1907, Page 3

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