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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43326, 16 May 1908, Page 3

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j The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile | Agency Company’s Ltd. weekly report : | Horses : At the Durham Tarda on Friday ; we had a full muster of horses and the ( greater number found purchasers. Draughts j sold at from £32 10s to £39 ; .medium do., j £2O 15s to £29; light harness horses, £lo.los to £l9 ; hacks, £6 10s to £2O ; waggonette, £24 ; spring cart, £l2 10s. At Phpakura on Wednesday we had an exceptionally large muster of stock for the season of the year, and, with the exception of , one or two pens, everything changed hands. - Dairy cows sold at from £3 10s to £7 5s ; ' heifers, £2 15s to £5 15s; backward springers, £2 5s to £4 2s 6d ; empty cows, £2 los to £3 15s : grown steers, £4 15s to £7 Is ; two to three-year-old do., £2 10s to £4 12s 6d yearling steers, £1 5s to £2 4s ; calves, 7s 6d to £1 7s. On Thursday we held a clearance sale of dairy stock on account of Mr Len Walters and Messrs Webßter Brothers on the Waiuku swamp. There was a large attendance and very satisfactory prices ruled. Cows which were due to come to profit in the spring sold at from £3 17s 6d to £8 ; heifers, £3 10s to I £6 ; buggy, £2O 10s ; harness, £4 ; farm horses, £9 5s to £2O ; foals, .£S to £8 15sOn Monday we held a clearing sale of live and dead stock on account of Mr C. de Pass at Manurewa, who has sold his farm. There was a record attendance and high prices ruled . Dairy cows sold at from £4 15s to £7 4s; sheep, 13s 6d to 18s; lambs, 8s 6d ; farm borses, £l6 to £37 ; Farmers’ Favourite drill, £25 ; reaper and mower, £2O ; fowls, Is 6d to 4s 6d.

Cattle: At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday there was a moderate yarding of dairy and store stock and an average supply of boef. Dairy cows sold at from £3 10s to £6 5s ; empty cows, £2 2s 6d to £3 7s Gd : calves, 16s to 18s. Bidding for beef was scarcely as brisk as the previous week, although quotations are the same, oxen selling to 23s and cows 17s ter 20s Iper lOOlbs. Steers sold, at from £5 15s to £lO 12s 6d ; cows, £3 10s to £7. Sheep were yarded in usual numbers at Newmarket, and sold at lower rates, wethers selling at from 16 6d to £1 ss, ewes 13s 6d to l’Bs 6d, hoggets. 10s 6d to 14s 9d, lambs 11s 6d to 15s, store wethers 9s to i2s, ewes 9s 6d to 12s 6d. A draft of fat wethers from the Karaka Land Company, Limited. Drury, averaged £1 0s 6d. i Pigs : Porkers, £1 2s to £1 15s ; weaners, 6s to 10s ; baconers, £2 6d to £3 Is. 1 Sheepskins : Market easier. Best butchers’ skins, Is 6d to Is 8d ; good, Is to Is 3d ; inferior, 6d to 9d. Bones, £5 15s. Cowtails, Is 8d dozen. Horsehair, Is to Is 3d. Wheat: Owing to the scarcity in the supplj of maize wheat has advanced and is firm at 5s 3d ex store.